Jul 8, 2014 | Research library
This research aims to explore the key factors influencing an Internet user’s capacity to accurately identify a phishing website. We carried out quantitative research using a structured survey questionnaire and three experimental tasks. We gathered a total of 621...
Jul 4, 2014 | Research library
Organisations today operate in a world fraught with threats, including “script kiddies”, hackers, hacktivists and advanced persistent threats. Although these threats can be harmful to an enterprise, a potentially more devastating and anecdotally more likely threat is...
Jul 3, 2014 | Research library
As Internet and Web technologies have been used in different fields by various organizations, cyber security has become a significant public concern for the society as a whole. There is a broad consensus on the need for broader and better training and education of the...
Jul 2, 2014 | Research library
A major threat to IT security in today’s business world is the simple problem of careless employees choosing not to comply with security policies and guidelines. Many studies have been done to track the reasoning behind this problem and try to find a solution. To...
Jun 30, 2014 | Research library
In this study, we sought to answer the question of whether certain information security awareness message themes are more or less effective for different types of individuals based on their personality traits. We considered five message themes (deterrence, morality,...
Jun 20, 2014 | Research library
The present research adopts an extended theory of the planned behavior model that included descriptive norms, risk, and trust to investigate online privacy protection in Facebook users. Facebook users (N = 119) completed a questionnaire assessing their attitude,...
