TY - JFULL AU - Magdalena Naplavova and Tomas Ludik and Petr Hruza and Frantisek Bozek PY - 2014/12/ TI - General Awareness of Teenagers in Information Security T2 - International Journal of Information and Communication Engineering SP - 3551 EP - 3555 VL - 8 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9999754 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 95, 2014 N2 - The use of IT equipment has become a part of every day. However, each device that is part of cyberspace should be secured against unauthorized use. It is very important to know the basics of these security devices, but also the basics of safe conduct their owners. This information should be part of every curriculum computer science education in primary and secondary schools. Therefore, the work focuses on the education of pupils in primary and secondary schools on the Internet. Analysis of the current state describes approaches to the education of pupils in security issues on the Internet. The paper presents a questionnaire-based survey which was carried out in the Czech Republic, whose task was to ascertain the level of opinion pupils in primary and secondary schools on the issue of communication in social networks. The research showed that awareness of socio-pathological phenomena on the Internet environment is very low. Based on the results it was proposed appropriate ways of teaching to this issue and its inclusion a proposal of curriculum for primary and secondary schools. ER -