Surprising numbers are faced by Symantec’s annual cyber security report: a lot of users have come across an atrocity last year from computer criminals.
69 percent of the members of the Millennium (Y + Z) generation on social networking sites have fallen victim to cyber crime in the United States, but the situation is not rosy for the entire computer population: more than half of the adult Internet population (about 143 million people) are affected by malicious program, virus, spyware, blackmail virus, or phishing scam last year – says Symantec’s 2017 survey, which, of course, has not only done in the United States, but in 20 other countries around the world.
The Norton Cyber Security Insights report also pointed out that we are already talking about 978 million Internet users globally that somehow have access to computer criminals. The most common incidents were: viral infection (53 percent), credit card fraud (38 percent), password forgery (34 percent), unauthorized access to one user’s account (34 percent), scam on online shopping (33 percent), cheating emails or sensitive personal information click fraud (32 percent). As a result, consumers who have been subjected to cybercrime have globally lost $ 172 billion, an average of $ 142 per victim.
