The advanced growth of communication technology today has brought great benefits to the people of Malaysia in many ways. One of those is the introduction of Society 5.0 concept, in which referring to smart cities which will solve future issues and challenges using digital approaches including artificial intelligence (AI), big data and Internet of Things (IoT). Big data collected by the various devices will be analysed and transformed into new type of innovation technologies by AI and will be beneficial for all levels of the community. The aim of society 5.0 is to change our lifestyle to becoming more comfortable with digital technology and its services whenever it is needed. Despite of its advantage, some problems have come into the picture.
*Author for correspondenceOne of the problems is cybersecurity awareness among the elderly people. It had been reported in 2017 in the UK, the risk of senior citizens being cyber fraud victims is getting higher, which predicted more than one million elderlies will be attacked by scammer through email [1].Statistically, 8% of 75 years old and above internet users claimed that they were a victim and almost 75% of the age group said technology had exposed them to online danger although it offers many benefits [2,3]. There are about 62,000 complaints about fraud received from senior citizens with total loss of almost $650 million, whereas tech support fraud is speeding up and the elderlies will be the majority victims [4−6]. Therefore, it is timely to create cybersecurity awareness among the elderlies. Thus, the objective of this study is to further investigate the relationship of
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