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Cybersecurity
Digital Daily Life Between Security and Risk
- 50% of respondents mention that their sense of security is provided by experience and knowledge, followed by technological solutions such as the use of antivirus programs - 38% (in 2024, it was used by 12%), then codes received via SMS (28%) or generated by specialized apps (14%). The most common losses are financial, increasing from 32% to 42%, but psychological aspects such as stress, shame, and fear, previously at 23%, have decreased to 17%. Identity theft was experienced by 14%, compared to 17% in the previous period. - 67% of cases involved losses up to 100 euros, while over 10,000 euros were lost in 4% of cases, compared to 1% in 2024, showing a slight increase. For example, looking at self-assessment scores for cybersecurity on a scale of 1 to 5 (where “1” means very poor knowledge and “5” very good), most respondents rated themselves around “3”. Meanwhile, the number of respondents rating their knowledge as “4” increased by 7%, now constituting 27%, and those rating “5” marked 6%.