Individual Differences in Cyber Security Behaviors: An Examination of Who Is Sharing Passwords

Whitty, Monica T.; Doodson, James; Creese, Sadie; Hodges, Duncan

doi:10.1089/cyber.2014.0179

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“…This security tradeoff creates a problem for IT professionals. Users are usually aware of what a good password is, but despite this understanding, they are still inclined to take risks and are optimistically biased; they believe a negative event is unlikely to happen to them [29]. In a study of 20,907 people, researchers found that around 76% of the repondents know that they should protect their information online yet they engage in sharing their passwords and other risky behaviors [3].…”

Section: Psychology and Social Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of peer feedback on password strength

Dupuis

Khan

2018

2018 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime)

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Effects of Peer Feedback on Password Strength Faisal Irfan Yar KhanChair of the Supervisory Committee:Dr. Marc Dupuis Computing and Software Systems This thesis is a study on the effects of peer-feedback on a user's password strength. Passwords are a common sight in everyday use of an average end user. Text-based passwords are heavily relied upon when it comes to user authentication employed in various account management scenarios. Most users do not pay attention to or understand the importance of creating a secure password. Lack of strong passwords means that it is the single most vulnerable point to gain unauthorized access to the resource as prior studies have uncovered that most passwords are significantly weak and hence, easy to crack. Consequently, exploring mechanisms which improve password security has been the main focus of a significant body of research. To this end, we introduced a peer-feedback password meter which shows how the strength of the user's password compares to the strength of passwords used by other users. To achieve this goal, we conducted a user study where we asked users to create an account on a hypothetical website. The users were either shown a traditional password meter or a peer-feedback meter. Our findings suggest that when told to create a unique password, the peer-feedback password meter significantly increased the strength of the password as compared to a traditional password meter.This approach could potentially be one of the methods to encourage end users to create a stronger password.i

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Section: Psychology and Social Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of peer feedback on password strength

Dupuis

Khan

2018

2018 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime)

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“…There have been many studies on password behaviour conducted with university students, faculty members, and staff (Boothroyd & Chiasson, 2013;Brown et al 2004;Bryant & Campbell, 2006;Gaw & Felten, 2006;Grawemayer & Johnson, 2011;Riley, 2006;Shay et al, 2010;Stobert & Biddle, 2014;Ur et al, 2015), employees from various organizations (Adams & Sasse, 1999;Inglesant & Sasse, 2010;Zviran & Haga, 1999), children (Meter & Bauman, 2015), married couples (Singh et al, 2007), and the general public (Florencio & Herley, 2007;Kaye, 2011). But to the best of our knowledge, there are only three studies that have reported differences between younger and older people in their password behaviour: Bryant and Campbell (2006), Kaye (2011), and Whitty et al (2015). Table 1 summarises a range of studies which have collected information about people"s password management behaviour, including the participant demographics and findings.…”

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Generational Differences in Password Management Behaviour

Merdenyan

Petrie

2018

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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Passwords still remain a very common authentication method for online accounts. Many studies have investigated people's risky password management behaviour, including reusing passwords, writing them down, and sharing them with others. However, most studies provide limited information about the demographics of their participants. There may be substantial differences in password management behaviour between younger and older people, as they represent very different generations with different experiences of the Internet, and investigation of these differences could be a first step to helping people manage their passwords more appropriately. An online survey asked 45 younger and 47 older people about their password management behaviour. Significant generational differences were found in password behaviours including storing passwords, sharing them with others, forgetting them, and logging in from a shared computer. There were also significant differences in respondents' ratings of their password security knowledge and password strength. Finally, there was a significant social desirability bias in answers to several questions.

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“…Digital identity is a mixed, abstract term that can be encountered as and linked with digital signature, digital trace, digital footprint, shared digital data, digital self-representation, to name a few, depending on the context and the field that refers to it. Scholars from different disciplines are seeking to understand digital identity as it can be perceived either as a technical term related to computer science and information security and management (for example see Windley, 2005;Whitty et al, 2015) or as a term with a broader social significance, referring to a person"s online existence, practices and behaviour (Turkle, 2011;Fehér, 2015).…”

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Cinema-going Trajectories in the Digital Age

Styliari

Kefalidou

Koleva

2018

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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The activity of cinema-going constantly evolves and gradually integrates the use of digital data and platforms to become more engaging for the audiences. Combining methods from the fields of Human Computer Interaction and Film Studies, we conducted two workshops seeking to understand cinema audiences' digital practices and explore how the contemporary cinema-going experience is shaped in the digital age. Our findings suggest that going to the movies constitutes a trajectory during which cinemagoers interact with multiple digital platforms. At the same time, depending on their choices, they construct unique digital identities that represent a set of online behaviours and rituals that cinemagoers adopt before, while and after cinema-going. To inform the design of new, engaging cinema-going experiences, this research establishes a preliminary map of contemporary cinema-going including digital data and platforms. We then discuss how audiences perceive the potential improvement of the experience and how that would lead to the construction of digital identities.

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Individual Differences in Cyber Security Behaviors: An Examination of Who Is Sharing Passwords

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Effects of peer feedback on password strength

Effects of peer feedback on password strength

Generational Differences in Password Management Behaviour

Cinema-going Trajectories in the Digital Age

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