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Subject: [ISN] Hacking, Not Partying,
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2010-09-22 8:02:53
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.1009220302440.25486 () conundrum ! infosecnews ! org
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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 cafĂ˝. College kids are
hacking Facebook accounts (37 percent), email accounts (26 percent), and
online shopping accounts (10 percent).
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