Users’ privacy is increasingly being jeopardized by images uploaded using smartphones. These images have detailed metadata that can be used maliciously. We designed an online interactive comic to study whether this kind of teaching media can effectively communicate to...
Online security advice aims to persuade users to behave securely, but appears to have limited effects at changing behaviour. We propose security advice targeted at end-users should employ visual rhetoric to form an effective, memorable, and persuasive method of...
Users are susceptible to password guessing attacks when they create weak passwords. Despite an abundance of text-based password advice, it appears insufficient to help home users create strong memorable passwords. We propose that users would be empowered to make...
Many users have difficulties making effective security decisions. Education is one way to improve users’ mental models of computer security, but a common challenge is that users are not motivated to learn about security. We propose that a visual approach to education...
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