{"id":595156,"date":"2023-10-19T18:26:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/boomers-have-better-cybersecurity-habits-than-millennials-and-genz-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2023-10-19T18:26:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:26:05","slug":"boomers-have-better-cybersecurity-habits-than-millennials-and-genz-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/boomers-have-better-cybersecurity-habits-than-millennials-and-genz-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"#Boomers have better cybersecurity habits than millennials and GenZ, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n Boomers are often reviled for hoarding the world\u2019s resources, but they\u2019re also dominating their descendants in their cyber defences.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to a new survey by Yubico, a Swedish vendor of authentication devices<\/a>. The company asked 2,000 consumers in the US and UK about their attitudes towards protecting online accounts. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The responses revealed a counterintuitive divide: digital natives app<\/a>ear less<\/em> cyber-secure than their elders.<\/p>\n

Yubico found that boomers are\u00a0the least likely generation to reuse passwords for multiple accounts (20% of respondents). More than twice as many millennials do it (47%), while Gen\u00a0Z (39%) and Gen X (38%) are also frequent offenders.<\/p>\n

Boomers also rarely save their credit card information in online accounts (19%). Their successors are all far happier to do this. Some 33% of Gen Z, 37% of millennials, and 34% of Gen X will save the details.<\/p>\n

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A key factor in this divergence is self-doubt. Boomers are almost twice as likely to feel unconfident about spotting a fraudulent online retailer (42%<\/span>) than Gen Z (23%<\/span>). Millennials (29%) and Gen X (30%) also rarely suffer from a lack of confidence.<\/p>\n

These findings don\u2019t mean \u201cthe luckiest<\/a> generation\u201d plays it entirely safe. When it comes to multi-factor authentication (MFA), the most common users are Gen Z (59%) and Gen X (55%). Still, boomers are more likely to turn it on (53%) than those carefree millennials (48%).<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Gen Z has the most cybersecurity concerns, but not the best practices. Credit: Yubico<\/figcaption>