"Kaspersky Lab": the value the users of personal devices

The agency "Harris Interactive" especially for "Kaspersky Lab" conducted a survey among 8813 people from Russia, USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Experts have found out what content on PCs, laptops, netbooks, smartphones and tablets, users value the most. Thus, the Russian owners of personal electronic devices are worried about photo and video of its own production (42%). Another 36% of users surveyed included three such important confidential information like passwords and other personal details of the accounts, which are also often stored in the memory of gadgets, and not their master. For many people, the loss of e-book contacts is akin to memory loss: 32% of respondents rated these note-books as the most important and valuable. Majority vote of the address book closes the top three.

Rating valuable species content of Russian Internet users continued to documents of a personal nature (not related to work), bank details (account numbers, credit cards, etc.), personal correspondence to e-mail; software on the device, working papers, entertainment content ( photos, videos and music from external sources); training materials, working correspondence and e-books. most dangerous in the hands of criminals Russian people felt strange usernames and passwords from accounts and bank information (64% and 55% respectively). In addition, our countrymen have been agreed with the majority of Europeans. Also in the top three most dangerous for the loss of data included the respondents address book (32%). In our country there are many cases where the illegally obtained a database used for spamming, extortion and fraud, including older people, analysts say.