Aug 25, 2014 | Research library
This paper looks into how Facebook habits impact susceptibility to social engineering attacks via social media, concluding habitual Facebook users are significantly more likely to succumb to level 1 friend-request attacks than non-habitual users.
Aug 20, 2014 | Research library
We explore how to manage a portfolio of passwords. We review why mandating exclusively strong passwords with no re-use gives users an impossible task as portfolio size grows. We find that approaches justified by loss-minimization alone, and those that ignore important...
Aug 13, 2014 | Research library
Even though there has been an increased effort to increase security sensitivity amongst the population, most individuals ignore security advice. This paper found a few social influence processes – processes that influence the behaviours of individuals with words and...
Aug 10, 2014 | Research library
This paper is the outcome of two studies in which university students’ responses to curiosity-inducing phishing emails were monitored..
Jul 19, 2014 | Research library
The perception of risk has been established as an important part of the study of human aspects of security research. Similarly, risk awareness is often considered a central precursor for the adoption of security mechanisms and how people use them and interact with...
Jul 19, 2014 | Conference proceedings, Research library
This paper addresses security and safety choices that involve a decision on the timing of an action. Examples of such decisions include when to check log files for intruders and when to monitor financial accounts for fraud or errors. To better understand how...