The perception of digital security among digital natives

It becomes truth that students cannot imagine living without computers. Computers were present during major part of their life and during their whole education. Many of today´s students are better typists then hand writer and they acquire information from the internet almost immediately. In their life Google and Wikipedia are primary source of information. Despite their apparent computer literacy and knowledge we still need to teach them digital competences. Their waste knowledge is just superficial and limited to the first few hits on Google. Sadly their stamina in the research activities is low. These students are aware of digital security because they hear about it everywhere; they will become teachers; and they will teach kids and teenagers how to behave in the internet. We conduct a research to verify the level of comprehension of digital security among two generations of students (freshmen and third year). In our research we focus on data security; fraud recognition; and identity theft. Students show great knowledge in the area of fraud recognition less knowledge in identity theft and great ignorance about data security. Detailed results of the research is presented in the article.