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Just 28% of the adults interviewed could identify an example of two-factor authentication. About one-quarter of Americans, about 24%, was aware that private browsing only hid browser history from other users of that computer, while about 49% of those surveyed said they were unsure what private browsing did.
Just over half of Facebook users ages 18 & older had adjusted their privacy settings in the past year & around a quarter said they had deleted the app from their cellphone.
Fully 95% of US teens have access to a smartphone, and 45% say they are online ‘almost constantly’.
A new Pew Research Center survey of US adults has found that Facebook & YouTube dominate the social media landscape.
While 71% of the respondents agreed to using Facebook, a big chunk also said they used photo-sharing app Instagram, while 41% said they used pic-based messaging app Snapchat.
Security researchers from IBM Security had identified that 26 of the 41 dating apps they had analyzed on the Android mobile platform had either medium or high severity vulnerabilities.