Many users ignore risks and put off backups and updates


  • TECH
  • Sunday, 25 Feb 2018

If you don’t back up your data on an external storage device, you risk losing all of your images and text files if your computer goes belly up. — dpa

If you don’t back up your data on an external storage device, you risk losing all of your images and text files if your computer goes belly up.

Still, many users tend to disregard the risks involved, a recent survey shows. Only one in five people (21%) regularly back up their data.

Many users also like to put off updating their devices: Just 37% of the people asked install updates as soon as they become available. However, one in five (19%) have become a victim of malware.

Over two thousand people in Germany aged 14 to 66 took part in the online survey carried out by Ipsos pollsters between September and October 2017. — dpa

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