Cultivating Awareness on Email Security Threats among School Children via Game-Based Learning Approach (CEG)

Internet has brought a huge transformation in many aspects of our life as it is one of the
biggest contributors in making the world into global village. The percentage of internet
users has increase rapidly across age including children nowadays. Despite giving many
benefits to the users, the impressive change of Internet has brought high concern about
the threats to safety and security among the users especially for the children nowadays.
High concern rises among global expertises on child's online protection as it can harm
the children physically and emotionally. Email security threats are one of the cyber
threats problem that child should aware to avoid any incidental causes which lead
towards negative impact. However, the level of awareness on this issue among
Malaysian children is low. Therefore, this paper proposes an alternative method in
cultivating early awareness on email security threats among school children in
Malaysia. Child Email Game (CEG) has been developed based on game based learning
model by using Adobe Flash Professional CS 5 software. Through this interactive and
fun approach, CEG is expected to assist them in identifying the emails security threats
accordingly.