ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some of the studies on students’ cybersecurity awareness and privacy. Cybersecurity, or information technology security, has become one of the major concerns of organizations, communities, and individuals. User understanding of privacy and security risks, and how to protect themselves from cyber-attacks is a fundamental need in modern life. Cyber-criminals exploit a variety of threat vectors, including email, network traffic, user behaviour, and application traffic to insert ransomware. The objectives were to understand students’ awareness in such a tech-savvy environment of cyber-attacks and to explore how they protected themselves against cyber-attacks. The Internet and a multitude of social networking applications have massively increased the possibility of the disclosure of personal information. Since most social network users are in the habit of sharing pictures with other people online, the privacy of those in the photographs may be unwittingly compromised.
