Three-quarters of South Africans say identity theft is more likely than before
ABOUT nine-million South Africans fell victim to cyber crime in the past year, according to Norton’s Cybersecurity Insights Report released on Wednesday.Online crimes are increasingly prevalent, with more than one in seven people having borne the brunt of an unauthorised access attempt to a social network profile, the report found.Compared to their global counterparts, South Africans have heightened sensitivity to online information compromises, with 76% believing that identity theft was more likely than ever before.Sixty-seven percent said it was easier to control personal information before smartphones and the internet.David Ribeiro, head of Norton: Middle East and Africa, said the good news was that "more and more consumers are aware of the risks of cybercrime, but the bad news is they neither feel they are doing enough to prevent it, or feel that technology has prevented them from being able to do anything about it".Despite personal experience, many South Africans continue to pu...
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