Dec 28, 2013 | Research library
We carried out two behavioural experiments to investigate if and how cybersecurity decision-making responses are influenced by gain-loss framing and the prominence of a primed recall of a previous experience. In the first experiment, we adjusted the frame (gain vs....
Dec 15, 2013 | Research library
Within nine different research projects about phishing protection this thesis gives answers to ten different research questions in the areas of creating new phishing detectors (phishing detection) and providing usable user feedback for such systems (user...
Dec 14, 2013 | Research library
Use of the Internet has become our second nature. With each passing day computers and mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous in our society. In this backdrop the confidentiality of information is now a question of paramount importance. It is understood fact now that...
Dec 5, 2013 | Research library
Researchers offer participants persuasive communications in the form of charitable appeals and commercial advertisements. By drawing the attention of the participant to how similar they are with either a victim of misfortune (in a charitable appeal) or a protagonist...
Dec 1, 2013 | Research library
The 2014 Security Threat Report discusses the evolution of the cyber threat landscape. It suggests that less skilled cybercriminals are being pushed out of the market, leading to a survival of the fittest scenario. This evolution is expected to result in fewer, but...
Dec 1, 2013 | Research library
Employees’ failures to follow information security policy can be costly to organizations, causing organizations to implement security controls to motivate secure behavior. Information security research has explored many control-related motivations (e.g.,...
