Oh, dear. People know more about Kanye West than password security

May 3, 2018May 2, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments

According to a new report from HighSpeedInternet.com, people (Americans, anyway) know more about Kanye West than they do about how to secure their devices with a proper password.

The report comes with this graphic:

Digging deeper into the report, it becomes bleedin’ obvious that pop culture is more important to people (well, Americans) than cybersecurity.

And there’s more. I quote:

More people knew Taylor Swift’s lucky number than knew that the most common way to get hacked is via social engineering.
3/4 of people knew who performed at the 2018 Super Bowl Halftime show, but only about 1/4 were able to correctly identify the strongest password from two options.
Only 11% of people knew who to call if their password is hacked.

Probably not good, right? Read the whole report here.

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