Boomers have better cybersecurity habits than millennials and GenZ, study finds


Boomers are often reviled for hoarding the world’s resources, but they’re also dominating their descendants in their cyber defences. That’s according to a new survey by Yubico, a Swedish vendor of authentication devices. The company asked 2,000 consumers in the US and UK about their attitudes towards protecting online accounts. The responses revealed a counterintuitive divide: digital natives appear less cyber-secure than their elders. Yubico found that boomers are the least likely generation to reuse passwords for multiple accounts (20% of respondents). More than twice as many millennials do it (47%), while Gen Z (39%) and Gen X (38%) are also frequent…

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