How To Stay Safe While Shopping During 12.12 Sales

The holidays are a time when people purchase gifts for their friends, families, and yes even for themselves. Increasingly, children are using and accessing more and more digital devices, and this makes it important for everyone to work together to secure these devices.

“Singapore is a hyper connected society with a close to 80 per cent of Singaporeans

planning to purchase a connected device online this holiday season. However, what’s

worrying is that a fifth of them are not concerned about security and would still buy a

device even if they knew it was susceptible to security breaches,” said David Freer, Vice

President, Consumer, Asia Pacific at McAfee. “Such risky behaviour exposes

Singaporeans to a myriad of cybersecurity risks and sheds light on the lack of awareness

when it comes to securing devices,” said David Freer, Vice President, Consumer, Asia

Pacific at McAfee.

Cybersecurity is a shared responsibility, and everyone should do their best to practice good cyber hygiene. Here are five tips to help keep your online shopping safer as well as your digital devices more secure: