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...
Jul 18, 2014 | Research library
We explore Information and Communication Technology (ICT) security in a socio-technical world and focus in particular on the susceptibility to social engineering attacks. We pursue the question if and how personality traits influence this susceptibility. We use...
Jul 9, 2014 | Research library
When security updates are not installed, or installed slowly, end users are at an increased risk for harm. To improve security, software designers have endeavored to remove the user from the software update loop. However, user involvement in software updates remains...
Jul 9, 2014 | Research library
Taking a step beyond segmentation, privacy researchers have recently proposed privacy personalization or adaptation as an approach to assist users in their privacy decision making. Analyzing a number of datasets of users’ personal information disclosure behavior, we...
Jul 9, 2014 | Research library
Users need to keep track of many accounts and passwords. We conducted a series of interviews to investigate how users cope with these demanding tasks, and used Grounded Theory to analyze the interview results. We found that most users cope by reusing passwords and...
