By Chua Hian Hou
BY THE middle of next year, primary school pupils here will have a website to visit to be clued in on the dangers lurking online.
Modelled after the Road Safety Community Park in the East Coast which welcomes groups of students for road-safety lessons in a scaled-down road network, the Virtual Cyber Security Park will show today's increasingly wired children how their seemingly innocuous actions on the Web can come back to haunt them.
The online park will use 3-D technology to re-create scenarios young ones encounter while online, from creating social networking profiles to playing online games.
The cyber park, now being developed, is among government measures unveiled yesterday aimed at beefing up cyber security here.
Besides warning the young ones against falling prey to sexual predators, spammers and hackers, the Government will require Internet service providers here to be audited for responsiveness to cyber attacks; it will also take steps to protect its websites from hackers. (See other report: Audits for Internet service providers)
All these additions to Singapore's Infocomm Security Masterplan 2 were announced by Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Lui Tuck Yew, who was at the second Information Security Seminar held at Suntec Convention Centre yesterday.
The Straits Times
