Youth Educated On Dangers Of The Internet

Mon, 12/03/2018 - 09:55

As part of government efforts to create safer communities, Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams led a cyber security awareness campaign in Eersterust, Pretoria.

Youth educated on dangers of the internet

“We want to make sure that our people are safe and it has to start with the platforms that they communicate with. We have therefore made a conscious decision to work with everyone to make sure that we can spread the message of the disadvantages of the internet,” Ndabeni-Abrahams said.

The Minister’s awareness campaign follows the recent adoption of the Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill by the National Assembly. The Bill is aimed at creating offences and prescribed penalties related to cybercrime.

The offences provided for in the bill aim to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer data and systems by means of the offences of unlawful access, interception of protected data, malware-related offences, interference with data and computer systems and password-related offences.