CBS: highly educated people more often victims of cyber criminals – Security.nl

Highly educated people are more prone to identity theft and hacking to make than low-skilled and therefore more frequently the victims of cyber criminals, even if it is acknowledged that they are more active on the Internet, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) today in a new report.

Five percent of highly educated people has been lifted in 2014 when buying over the internet, compared with two percent of the low-skilled. Online shopping is among skilled workers also clearly popular. Over three quarters of the highly educated (78 percent) did in the past three months. The low-skilled 34 percent did so. The fact that highly educated people are more often the victim of Internet scammers can be attributed to this; both low and highly skilled online shoppers has about 6 percent of sales fraud had to do.

Identity Theft

Also be educated more often victims of identity fraud than less educated. Although more than three-quarters of the highly educated people believe that they can protect their personal computer or on the Internet, they still have more to do with phishing / pharming (0.5 percent). Although low-skilled fewer banking via the Internet, the pattern does not change when we look at the relevant internet population.

Hacking

Hacking was in 2014 by more than 5 percent of victims a relatively common form of cybercrime followed by purchase and sale fraud (3.5 percent) and identity theft (less than 1 percent). Hacking describes CBS as the unauthorized hacking into the computer of another. In 2014 5.2 percent of the Dutch population was confronted with this. These are more than 700,000 people. By comparison, in the same year was the victim of bicycle theft 4.1 percent.

The proportion of victims of hacking or slightly lower than in 2012 and 2013 when about 6 percent this victim was a relative decline of about 13 percent. In most cases it comes to hackers who hack or log into an email account. In 2014 received 2.1 percent of the population to make this. In 2012 and 2013 this share was about twice as big. As with other forms of cybercrime are highly skilled at hacking more often the victims than educated.

Whether it’s an intrusion of hackers on a computer, e-mail account, website or profile site, highly educated face it more often. In line with this are often highly educated potential target. More than 94 percent of them have a computer, almost daily active on the Internet and has an email account. Lower educated this is clearly less the case. If this is taken into account by looking at the daily Internet users, then prove highly educated still often victims, especially when it comes to hacking the email account.