A series of surveys were conducted by ESET, in order to map the trends and behavior of users regarding the use of the Internet for shopping and banking, in four countries - Britain, Germany, Russia and the USA.
First of all, with regard to them online Banking, different behaviors are observed per nation, with Germans (64%) and Russian users using this feature for payments, while Americans (72,8%) and Britons (77,6%) more often for control of their account balance. Statistics also show that users trust their home connection more for such purposes - users in the West (about 80%), slightly more than users in Russia (57,3%).
Compared to this, more than one in four Russians (26,7%) are willing to use a broadband mobile connection to trade. As far as security is concerned, Britons appear the most prudent, as 77,5% is doing online transactions only if there is a security solution, at a time when a surprisingly high percentage (21,5%) of users in Russia, "do not know" if they have installed protection.
Surprising users' placements and the issue of them online markets. An example is his case Bitcoin, which has become extremely popular in Russia as a method of payment, at a time when their national currency, the ruble, is under pressure, proving that things that once seemed to belong to a distant technological future are now part of everyday life.
In large markets, on the other hand, as in the US, users prefer to use credit cards for their purchases, while Western Europe uses payment methods such as PayPal etc .;
However, it is worrying that many users have not realized that their transactions are the perfect opportunity for the theft of sensitive data by cybercriminals.
For this reason, the ESET suggests the use of a specialized solution to achieve a higher level of protection, such as ESET Smart Security 9, and the specialist modeς Banking & Payment Protection, which protects the user's browser, ensuring that all online financial transactions are processed in a safe and protected environment.
More information is available on the relevant blogposts in the addresses ESET.com ή WeLiveSecurity.com.
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* Surveys were conducted in the third quarter of 2015 on a demographically representative sample of at least 1.000 users Internet in each country through Google Surveys for UK, US and Germany, and through Merku for Russia.
In the analysis concerning how the possibilities online banking transactions and purchases are used and what are the behaviors, only the percentages of the user group that online banking and banking online markets.
