The growing activity of a variety of malicious little concern about the ordinary inhabitants of the Internet. As shown by recent research experts on computer security, to safeguard access to a variety of sites of half of its British users are using the same password.
According to the insurance company CPP, 46% of UK Internet users admitted to having their accounts in social networks, banking services and online stores are protected by one and the same password. Another 8% used on different sites of variation on the theme of the same only the original password.
What is fraught with, of course - not all sites provide a high level of protection, and once received at its disposal a password, fraudsters will be able to penetrate into all other user accounts.
Makes life easy for fraudsters draft Internet users to the unpretentious and primitive passwords. While many have already stopped using axiomatic passwords like "123456" and "qwerty", all the same variety of secret words of Britons do not differ.
Almost one fifth of them locks the personal data using nicknames pet. Every tenth as a password specifies the name of child or mother's maiden name, and 12% - the date of the birth of their own (often shown in the publicly available pages on social networks).
Alarming security specialists and the ease with which citizens share their passwords with colleagues and friends. According to the same study, 40% of Britons reported their passwords at least one other person.
"No sane person would not use the same key for your house, car and garage. Likewise, we should not use the same password for all sites. If possible, people should use multiple passwords, consisting of combinations of letters and numbers are difficult to crack "- leads Telegraph.co.uk expert advice theft of personal information the company CPP Sarah Blaney.
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