http://www.darkreading.com/insiderthreat/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227500353 By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading Sept 21, 2010 New research shows parents have more to worry about than their college students' underage drinking: Twenty-three percent of college kids say they have hacked for fun or profit, although most of them believe doing so is wrong. The report, commissioned by Tufin Technologies and the Association of Chief Police Officers in the U.K., found that 32 percent of college students aged 18 to 21 say hacking is "cool," 28 percent consider it easy to accomplish -- and all the while 84 percent consider it the wrong thing to do. Some 40 percent hacked for the first time after they turned 18; one in three say they hacked for fun, 22 percent say the main motivation for hacking was curiosity, and 15 percent cited profit as their motivation. The report surveyed 1,000 college students at eight universities in England. Nearly 40 percent of the hackers used their own computers to do the dirty deed, while 32 percent used their universities' computers. Another 23 percent used public computers at an Internet cafý. College kids are hacking Facebook accounts (37 percent), email accounts (26 percent), and online shopping accounts (10 percent). [...] _______________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Wed Sep 22 2010 - 01:02:53 PDT
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