Digital Literacy Challenge: How Safe Are Your Online Habits?
Most people use digital technology every day without thinking too much about the risks behind it. We use smartphones, banking apps, email, social media, cloud storage, messaging apps, and online accounts as part of normal life. These tools make life easier, but they also create opportunities for mistakes, scams, data exposure, and social engineering attacks.
The Digital Literacy Challenge was created to help people reflect on how safely they use technology in everyday situations.
It is a short, interactive quiz that tests your digital safety habits and gives you a Digital Safety Score at the end.
Take the challenge here: https://www.acehub.travel/cyber-quiz/
What Is the Digital Literacy Challenge?
The Digital Literacy Challenge is a web-based quiz designed to assess how people respond to common online safety situations.
It is not a traditional survey where you simply answer abstract questions. Instead, it presents realistic digital scenarios involving:
suspicious links
password habits
app permissions
online banking safety
public Wi-Fi use
cloud storage behaviour
phishing awareness
personal data protection
confidence in identifying online risks
The goal is simple: to help users understand whether their online habits are actually as safe as they believe.
Why Cybersecurity Literacy Matters
Cybersecurity is often treated as a technical issue, but many digital risks begin with ordinary human decisions.
A person may know that passwords should be strong, but still reuse the same password across multiple accounts. Someone may know that suspicious links can be dangerous, but still click one when it appears urgent or familiar. A mobile app may request access to contacts, microphone, or SMS, and many users may allow it without questioning why those permissions are needed.
This is why cybersecurity literacy must go beyond basic awareness.
It should include:
what people know
what people actually do
how confident people feel
whether that confidence matches real behaviour
The Digital Literacy Challenge is built around this idea.
What the Quiz Measures
The challenge looks at several areas of digital safety.
1. Knowledge Accuracy
This checks whether users understand basic cybersecurity and data privacy concepts, such as phishing, OTP safety, suspicious domains, public Wi-Fi risks, and app permissions.
2. Behavioural Habits
This examines how users behave in real life, including password reuse, software updates, multi-factor authentication, app installation habits, and whether they use online services safely.
3. Risk Perception and Confidence
This looks at how users judge their own security awareness. Some users may be cautious but underconfident, while others may be highly confident despite risky behaviour.
4. Behaviour–Perception Alignment
This is one of the most important parts of the challenge. It compares what users believe about their cybersecurity ability with how they actually respond to digital safety situations.
The gap between confidence and behaviour is often where real vulnerability appears.
Who Can Take Part?
The challenge is intended for:
adults aged 18+
people living in Sri Lanka
smartphone, computer, banking app, email, or social media users
anyone interested in testing their digital safety habits
No technical background is required.
In fact, the challenge is especially useful for ordinary technology users, because cybersecurity affects everyone who uses digital devices.
What You Get at the End
After completing the challenge, users receive a Digital Safety Score.
The score gives a general indication of how safely the user responded across the quiz. It can also help identify areas where the user may need to improve, such as:
password management
recognising suspicious links
understanding app permissions
protecting sensitive information
avoiding risky online behaviour
The aim is not to shame users for wrong answers. The aim is to make digital safety easier to understand through practical examples.
Why Ace Webmaster Built This
The Digital Literacy Challenge was originally developed as part of an MSc Cybersecurity research project affiliated with the University of Staffordshire, UK.
The research focused on cybersecurity literacy, data privacy awareness, and safe technology use among the general public in Sri Lanka.
However, the quiz has been kept active beyond the research phase because it can continue to serve as a useful public awareness tool.
Many people enjoy personality quizzes, typology tests, and self-assessment tools because they offer quick insight into personal patterns. This challenge applies a similar format to digital safety.
Instead of asking “what personality type are you?”, it asks:
How safe are your online habits?
Why This Matters for Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has seen rapid adoption of digital technology. Many people now use smartphones, online banking, mobile payment apps, social media, and cloud services as part of daily life.
However, digital adoption does not automatically create digital safety.
As more people use online services, cybersecurity awareness becomes increasingly important. Even simple habits can make a major difference, such as:
not sharing OTPs
using unique passwords
checking app permissions
avoiding suspicious links
updating devices
using official websites and apps
thinking before trusting urgent messages
The Digital Literacy Challenge helps users reflect on these habits in a direct and practical way.
Take the Challenge
The quiz takes around 5 minutes.
It is voluntary, simple to complete, and designed to help users think more clearly about digital risks.
Start here:
Test your digital security awareness in this 5-minute challenge. Contribute to academic research on cybersecurity literacy.
Test your digital safety habits. Get your Digital Safety Score. Learn where you can improve.
