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This study looks into how mood and audience influence gambling behaviours. Although mood seems to have no effect on gambling behavior, participants with a negative mood prior to gambling report more positive moods after gambling. Those with positive and neutral moods...

The paper describes a practitioner’s view of the issue and the approaches used by BT to assess and address insider threats and risks. Proactive measures need to be taken to mitigate against insider attacks rather than reactive measures after the event. A key priority...

The ultimate success of information security depends on appropriate information security practice behaviors by the end users. Based on social cognitive theory, this study models and tests relationships among self-efficacy in information security, security practice...

This paper explores the ultimate causes of risk-taking and anti-social behavior. In particular, it explores the notion of such behaviors as evolutionary. It suggests a research program informed by life history analysis may reveal the ultimate causes of risk-taking and...

The purpose of this paper based on compensation theory, is to incorporate perceived technical security protection into the theory of planned behavior and examined factors affecting end‐user security behaviors, specifically, compliance with security policies. The...

With Rogers' protection motivation theory as the theoretical framework, this study identified determinants of young adolescents' level of privacy concerns, which, in turn, affects their resultant coping behaviors to protect privacy. Survey data from 144 middle school...

Conventional wisdom is that phishing represents easy money. In this paper we examine the economics that underlie the phenomenon, and find a very different picture. Phishing is a classic example of tragedy of the commons, where there is open access to a resource that...

Research focusing on educating users about phishing and identifying phishing emails, as opposed to using technology for prevention and detection. The research identified multiple problems, namely: that people were not motivated to learn about security; that security...

This paper develops and tests a theoretical model of the incentive effects of penalties, pressures and perceived effectiveness of employee actions.  

This study examines the extent to which individuals seek confirming – or disconfirming – evidence, instead of actually testing a hypothesis. Results indicated that, often, individuals are unwilling (or unable) to test their hypotheses.    

The success of many attacks on computer systems can be traced back to the security engineers not understanding the psychology of the system users they meant to protect. We examine a variety of scams and “short cons” that were investigated, documented and recreated for...

The Windows Vista personal firewall provides users with a simple interface, obscuring many operational details. However, this concealment of the network context's impact on the firewall's security state may lead users to form an inaccurate mental model of the...

The security of computer systems that store our data is a major issue facing the world. This research project investigated the roles of ease of use, facilitating conditions, intention to use passwords securely, experience and age on usage of passwords, using a model...

Social engineering is now a major threat to users and systems in the online context, and it is therefore vital to educate potential victims in order to reduce their susceptibility to the related attacks. However, as with other aspects of security education, this...

There is a need to understand what makes information security successful in an organization. What are the threats that the organization must deal with and what are the criteria of a beneficial information security policy? Policies are in place, but why employees are...

Phishing, or the attempt of criminals to obtain sensitive information through a variety of techniques, is still a serious problem for IT managers and Internet consumers. With over 57 million Americans exposed to phishing in 2005, a reported 5% of recipients were...

Managing Information Security is becoming more challenging in today’s business because people are both a cause of information security incidents as well as a key part of the protection from them. As the impact of organizational culture (OC) on employees is...

This paper discusses the result of two case studies performed in a large international company to test the use of chatbots for internal security training. The first study targeted 26 end users in the company while the second study examined 80 security specialists....

This comprehensive report seeks to understand the persuasion techniques employed by scammers that successfully provoke human errors in judgement. It finds a successful scam involves all the standard elements of the 'marketing mix' – although scams differ from...

It is widely agreed that employee non-adherence to information security policies poses a major problem for organizations. Previous research has pointed to the potential of theories of moral reasoning to better understand this problem. However, we find no empirical...