Jul 3, 2008 | Research library
Companies collect personally identifiable information that website visitors are not always comfortable sharing. One proposed remedy is to use economics rather than legislation to address privacy risks by creating a marketplace for privacy where website visitors would...
Jun 20, 2008 | Research library
Intentional insider misuse of information systems resources (i.e., IS misuse) represents a significant threat to organizations. For example, industry statistics suggest that between 50%–75% of security incidents originate from within an organization. Because of the...
May 19, 2008 | Research library
While good user education can hardly secure a system, we believe that poor user education can put it at serious risk. The current problem of online fraud is exasperated by the fact that most users make security decisions, such as whether to install a given piece of...
May 8, 2008 | Research library
We report the results of a large scale study of password use and password re-use habits. The study involved half a million users over a three month period. A client component on users’ machines recorded a variety of password strength, usage and frequency metrics. This...
Apr 26, 2008 | Journal article, Research library
Professor Steven Furnell looks at reckless users online, as they make friends with complete strangers, even putting themselves at risk.
Mar 2, 2008 | Research library
A framework to motivate safe online behavior that interprets prior research and uses it to evaluate some of the nonprofit online safety education efforts is presented. Self-efficacy and response efficacy have the most consistent impact on safety behavior, and also...
