How the always-on generation can level up its cybersecurity game

Framed around International Youth Day, the piece explains why digital natives face heightened cyber risk despite their tech fluency, citing National Cybersecurity Alliance and HP data on always-on behavior, weak password/MFA usage, policy bypassing, and lower update rates; it highlights core threats such as sextortion (including AI nudifiers and extortion scams), account takeover from weak credentials and lack of MFA, social-media-driven investment/impersonation scams leveraging deepfakes and phishing, and malicious downloads (e.g., infostealers like Lumma) and concludes with practical guidance: stick to official stores, vet apps and developers, keep software updated, use reputable security tools, verify messages, tighten social privacy settings, and maintain skepticism toward too-good-to-be-true offers.