Net Safety PH

Dear Mothers, We understand you are proud of your child. You can shout to the world that you are but please do not share your child's personal information online.

You've probably already read us saying we prefer browsers over custom apps. And there's a really good reason for it. And today we'll dive into one those reason. Less than twelve hours of the time that this post is written, waves of articles online warned users that there is a widespread Phishing scam targeting Gmail users. The reality is that it's not only Gmail that is subject to this attack. All emails are. But for the time being, we'll use Gmail as a sample to illustrate a core problem. Yes, you may have guessed it already. People's mindset, misunderstanding technology and its wrong use.

Imagine trying to remember 10 to 50 passwords or access credentials just to get access to things you need to work done. People do not really care less about cybersecurity. The problem is that oftentimes security implementations makes the system less usable for people. That is one of the reasons why it seems that people care less about cybersecurity. People don't really care less about cybersecurity, they are simply overwhelmed with the amount of decisions that they have to make to access their own data. People experience what is called 'decision fatigue'. It turns out, this is a known phenomenon in Psychology. This is exactly what people are experiencing and a research paper calls it 'security fatigue'

Only a few people will really believe warnings such as the one we're about to quote. It goes like this: