IM – Instant Messaging

-IM poses Security Risk to a company network or individual
-Information hijacking, virus, Worms and Trojan attacks, unauthorized access
-IM is one of top 20 internet security attack target according to SANS Institute, US (www.sans.org).

Social networking – Friendster,myspace

-Wasting time for students & office workers, spending hours -chatting on none related education and work stuff
-Exposed to immoral activities – cybersex,chain letters,slandering
-Use of foreign, vulgar, indecent slangs
-Reduced conversation skill offline,less TT (the tarik) session

Financial – online banking

-Prone to stealing user ID/ Unautorized access
-Surfers' movements can be watched, measured, and analysed.
-Phishing email hitting banking customer inboxes
-Information phishers seek varies -- anything from credit card information to account login info, to identity information

Online games

-Exposed to violence, sexual and offensive language
-Promoting bad behaviour
-Passiveness, no interaction with people, and no social skills, live in their own world
-Addiction to certain games until wasting hours of time not doing anything
-Wasting money for those who frequent cyber cafes/games cafes.

References

-Online players beware the video game police.[link]

-SonicWALL Identifies First Threats of Phishing Attack on Banking. [link]

-Hong Kong's affluent are the most mobile savvy in Asia. [link]