50% of the Singapore Student Population Could Be Putting Their Identities And Friends At Risk

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From Singapore Hardware Zone:

Social network security is of current concern to parents and educators and new information from a Singapore poll is adding to the reasons why. "Almost half of the students between the ages of 17 to 25 polled in Singapore are revealing their full contact details" on social networking sites and "30% were adding people they do not know as 'friends'."

Norton Symantec and Hewlett Packard conducted the online poll of 120 students which revealed, among other things, that students are spending approximately 6 hours a day on the Internet and 92% have registered on at least one social networking site (such as MySpace or Facebook).

Phishing attacks are common via the Web and social networking sites make it easier to lure private information from younger users, making such attacks (involving fraud and identify theft) more common. It is important to educate young people on the risks to both their technology, financial and educational information utilizing a security software, but also the risks to their physical selves when revealing their location or contact information.