Did you know (this is interesting): women are more security savvy than men. In compliance with PC study nearly a half of all males use one and the same password for every website they visit. Meanwhile only a quarter of women use the same password for all websites. These statistics indicates that female Internet users are more password savvy than men. Moreover, nearly 60% of men open links and attachments without preliminary checking them for provenance while only 48% of women use this insecure practice. This data may sound strange especially if taking into consideration that men are showed by the survey to be better informed about online risks.

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Today is the birthday of the Internet. The Internet is now 40 and I thought it would be interesting to outline the stages the Internet has come through before converting into an imperative of our everyday life.

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