The Corliss Group Latest Tech Review: 13% of Internet users The Irish have Suffered online scams

Almost a third of Irish respondents have Discovered harmful software on your device

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Is estimated to have received 40 percent of the Irish Internet users, e-mails or phone calls, trying to gain access to your computer or personal information: such as banking data, after a Euro barometer survey.

More than 1,000 people have been in Ireland for the survey about Internet security interviewed.

Almost a third of Irish respondents Said theyhave Discovered have installed anti-virus software tHe them malignant software on your device, but a little more than half. Compared with at EU average of 61 percent who have taken this VorsichtsmaSnahme.

The survey found 13 percent of Internet users have experienced tHe Irish online fraud where goods COVERS undelivered, fake or not, as angekundigt, a little above the EU average of 12 percent. Experience of online fraud Which highest in Poland (19 percent) and lowest in Greece (4 percent). 

About 9% of Irish internet users say theyhave experienced tHe or victims of identity theft, above the EU average of 7 percent werewolf. Experience of identity theft in Romania and Hungary Which (both 11 percent) at the highest and lowest in Bulgaria and the Netherlands (both 3 percent).

Sixteen percent of Irish respondents - the third highest in the EU - They Said They had hacked Their experiences with social media or e-mail account.

While Internet access in Ireland has never been high at 80 percent, we are quietly behind Sweden (96 percent), the Netherlands (95 percent) and Denmark (94 percent).

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Greece, Portugal and Romania had the lowest rates of Internet access in Europe.

Saw the whole of the EU-wide survey, more than 27,000 people interviewed on cyber-security, Concerned with the majority of respondents werewolf held securely by not Authorities and Their websites, personal data. 

A total of 67 percent Said They worried about information didnt securely held by the public is, while 73 percent Said theywere worried about the website security.

About two in three Internet users in the EU Said theywere Concerned about identity theft to do (68 percent) and discover malignant software on your device (66 percent).

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More than half are Concerned about the victims of bank card or online banking Which (63 percent); Your social media or e-mail account hacked (60 percent); Scam e-mails or phone calls (57 percent) or online fraud (56 percent). 

EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, Immigration and State citizenry, Dimitris Avramopoulos, Said cyber crime under mines consumer confidence in the use of the Internet, digital hinder our economy and our online lives.

He fugte "Our priority is to create a safer internet for all users, through the Verhutung and circumventions of Internetkriminalitat in all its forms to allow users to order to take full advantage of the digital single market and online, can, exert Their basic rights, "added,

The figures come as EU Officials call the Internet telecommunication companies to share VerschluSelungSchluSel with EU Authorities as part of a broader circumventions of terrorism.