Thats according to a new survey by Yubico, a Swedish vendor ofauthentication 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 appearlesscyber-secure than their elders.
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Boomers also rarely save their credit card information in online accounts (19%).
Their successors are all far happier to do this.
A key factor in this divergence is self-doubt.
These findings dont mean theluckiestgeneration plays it entirely safe.
Alongside the survey results, Yubico shared somecybersecurityadvice.
As the producer of an MFA security key, the firm obviously wants every generation to apply MFA.
That should make boomers even safer as if they needed any extra help.
Hopefully, it also gives younger generations a rare chance to catch up.
Story byThomas Macaulay
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He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers.
Away from work, he enjoys playing chess (badly) and the guitar (even worse).
