A study on improving security warnings

Zaaba, Zarul Fitri; Furnell, Steven; Dowland, Paul

doi:10.1109/ict4m.2014.7020633

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“…Researchers carried out various experimental studies on security warnings to explore the problems and possible solution. Table III presents a summary of studies on how to improve security warnings based on the early investigations that had been made [14]. Proposed new concept of warning design where it appeared together when user wanted to key in the data online.…”

Section: B Methods To Improve Security Warningsmentioning

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Literature Studies on Security Warnings Development

Zaaba

Furnell

Dowland

2016

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Security warnings are intended to alert users about the possibility of events that may compromise their protection. They encounter security warnings on daily basis in many situations when dealing with their computer. However, prior studies have shown that users often have difficulty in understanding the warnings, which can pose a particular risk in cases where they are required to make a decision. Well gathered information is needed to help the researchers and other people to further understand this area. This paper describes an overview of studies on security warnings. It covers problems that end users encounter with security warnings, possible solutions and approaches of security warnings and useful classification of security warnings studies. It is expected that this paper will benefit the academicians, research community or general public to understand the problems and possible solutions in improving security warnings.

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“…Used to provide information that may prevent a problem. It is useful for users in completing a task Security warnings in computer can be described as a representation of warning that diverts user's attention to alert and notify the user on the possible consequences of an action in advance [14,21).…”

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Literature Studies on Security Warnings Development

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Dowland

2016

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“…The use of security warnings to alert users about events that occur on their computer, that could compromise their security and privacy, was researched in [14][15][16]. In [15] the authors suggest that users tend to ignore security warnings due to a lack of attention, understanding or motivation.…”

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Evaluating Awareness and Perception of Botnet Activity within Consumer Internet-of-Things (IoT) Networks

2019

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The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), and demand for low-cost, easy-to-deploy devices, has led to the production of swathes of insecure Internet-connected devices. Many can be exploited and leveraged to perform large-scale attacks on the Internet, such as those seen by the Mirai botnet. This paper presents a cross-sectional study of how users value and perceive security and privacy in smart devices found within the IoT. It analyzes user requirements from IoT devices, and the importance placed upon security and privacy. An experimental setup was used to assess user ability to detect threats, in the context of technical knowledge and experience. It clearly demonstrated that without any clear signs when an IoT device was infected, it was very difficult for consumers to detect and be situationally aware of threats exploiting home networks. It also demonstrated that without adequate presentation of data to users, there is no clear correlation between level of technical knowledge and ability to detect infected devices.

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“…[5] have listed six classifications of problems in warnings namely attention towards warnings, understanding of warnings, use of technical wordings, evaluation of risks from warnings, users" motivation towards heeding warnings and users" assessments of the implication of warnings.…”

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“…However, security warnings is often being ignored by the users because of various reasons such as they do not understand the messages [4,5], they are unaware of the risk, too much technical words [5,6] and users have an incorrect mental model of risk [6,7]. Users are more focused on their primary task and consider the computer security as secondary tasks [8].…”

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Symbolism in Computer Security Warnings: Signal Icons & Signal Words

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Zaaba²,

Singh³

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Abstract-Security warning is often encountered by the end users when they use their system. It is a form of communication to notify the users of possible consequences in the future. These threats have always been evolved with the advancement of technologies. The attacks threaten the end users with many harmful effects such as malware attacks. However, security warning keeps being ignored due to various reasons. One of the reasons is lack of attention towards warnings. The end users feels burden and treat security task as a secondary rather than primary task. To divert user's mind to read and comprehend the security warnings, it is important to capture the user's attention. Signal words and signal icons are important in the security warning as it is the elements that could help user to heed the warnings. A survey study has been conducted with 60 participants in regards to the perception towards attractiveness and understanding of the signal words and icons. It can be revealed that end users significantly feel that the icon with the exclamation marks is attractive and easy to understand. However, only one of three hypotheses is proven to be significant.

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A study on improving security warnings

Cited by 12 publications

References 11 publications

Literature Studies on Security Warnings Development

Literature Studies on Security Warnings Development

Evaluating Awareness and Perception of Botnet Activity within Consumer Internet-of-Things (IoT) Networks

Symbolism in Computer Security Warnings: Signal Icons & Signal Words

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