Tampa, Atlanta, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Charlotte, Detroit, Denver, Washington, and Sacramento round out the top 10 cities that are at the highest risk of digital fraud, according to a survey of 8,000 consumers in 35 US cities conducted by Research Now on behalf of AVG Technologies.
A full 40% of US consumers surveyed did not use a password on their mobile devices. Of those who did use a password, 34% had not changed their password in the past year. In addition, 75% of consumers did not take active measures to back up their mobile phone’s data.
At home, consumers are no better in terms of information security. Around 23% did not back up data on their PCs, 38% admit to sharing online passwords with a least one other person, 41% never run a manual anti-virus scan, and 67% did not use an identity monitoring service.
In terms of online shopping and banking, the survey found the 55% of consumers use two or fewer credit/debit cards each month for online purchases and more than 72% are checking their online banking accounts at least once per week for errors.
In addition to a high level of caution around personal finances online, 72% also claim to have never been fooled by an email phishing scam within the past year.