Indian tweens use risky or low level security passwords

 Indian tweens, children between the age of 8-12 years, are enthusiastically adopting Internet using multiple devices, but use risky or low level security passwords, a survey by cyber security major McAffee revealed.

McAfee's Tweens and Technology Report 2013 said online tweens are potentially vulnerable to risky behaviour on the Internet a good number of them have chatted to someone online that they didn't know previously.
A disturbing trend on the rise among tweens is their apathy towards their own online safety. 58 per cent of the respondents surveyed use risky or low level security passwords online and Almost half of the tweens surveyed share information about themselves over FB (41 per cent), it added.
Another dangerous trend that the survey by the US-based firm revealed is that Indian tweens are becoming more trusting of the virtual world to familiarise themselves with unknown people, in spite of being aware that it is risky.


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