Complicated password rules diminish online shopping convenience

Posted on 05 December 2014.The holiday shopping season is now fully underway, but the online shopping splurge is not over yet. Over half of Europeans plan to buy their.gifts online, yet many are struggling to cope with the complex password rules posed by online retailers, according to Kaspersky Lab.

The trend for digital shopping is particularly prevalent in the UK (66 per cent), followed closely by Germany (60 per cent), Italy (51 per cent) and Spain (50 per cent). On the other hand, adoption appeared to be lagging behind in France (35 per cent) and the Netherlands (34 per cent), with only a third inclined to shop online this year.

Yet, despite its increasing popularity, the convenience of online shopping is still being compounded by concerns around password complexity. According to the research, nearly half of Europeans (47 per cent) think that password rules on websites make it difficult to remember passwords, illustrating the frustrations of managing multiple passwords for various sites. full article