55% of young Italian people always use the same password – Hardware upgrade.it

To launch the admonition is Google, in the occasion of the Safer Internet Day 2017 which is held throughout the world Tuesday, February 7. The company of Mountain View commissioned a survey by YouGov, which highlights a disturbing situation for the youth of the Boot, and for his education in computer science. According to the study, more than half of the millennial italians (55%) use the same password to access different services, and 19% a password is very simple, as “password” or a sequence of numbers.

it’s No consolation, obviously, is the fact that we are not the only ones. Last month, we published the ranking drawn up by the Keeper of the 12 most common passwords of 2016 and, judging from the differences with the ranking of the previous year, we can say that there has been a real evolution. The company had examined more than 10 million passwords among those that have become public following the theft of data occurred in the course of the year, and even in that case, the situation was disarming.

and Yet the question should be clear to all in 2017, and especially among the young people who were born and grew up taking advantage of the technologies of the web: “The passwords are the first tool of defense against computer crime,” writes Google. “It’s good to use a different password for each account such as email or online banking. The longer the password, the harder it is to guess.” And if you have trouble remembering them all, you can take advantage of tricks, mnemonics, or phrases in a very personal way.

In a blog post on the official Google clearly explains how to defend your Gmail account or how to defend yourself from the external attacks by using strong passwords, and not popular, or avoiding sites that are marked as unsafe. Also Big G has organized the tour “Keep the internet Safe,” in collaboration with Altroconsumo, and the Police Post by visiting five Italian cities and trying to raise the awareness of young people and also older people, on the topic of online safety.

Google also confirms its support of “a life as A Social”, the initiative of the State Police who promotes a “conscious use of the web” and report any fraud attempts carried out along the social channels or the client of online communication. Google will also support the event “Node Blue”, together with the MIUR and which will seek to explain to young people the importance of surf safety and to report instances of bullying. And like every year can not miss the exhortation to control the security of your Google account, and if you did, do you also to this address!