Breaking! A Typology of Security and Privacy News and How It's Shared

Das, Sauvik; Lo, Joanne; Dabbish, Laura; Hong, Jason I.

doi:10.1145/3173574.3173575

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“…These parents decided not to purchase smart cameras, avoided brands implicated in news of data breaches, or only used security cameras in public areas at home but not in children's bedrooms. In line with prior work that shows the influence of news coverage on people's security and privacy behaviors [20,21,112], parents in our study tended to be cautious about smart home devices and brands that were featured in news negatively, and considered them unsafe or untrustworthy. 4.4.6 Device characteristics.…”

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confidence: 84%

Child Safety in the Smart Home: Parents' Perceptions, Needs, and Mitigation Strategies

Sun

Zou

Radesky

et al. 2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Concerns about child physical and digital safety are emerging with families' adoption of smart home technologies such as robot vacuums and smart speakers. To better understand parents' definitions and perceptions of child safety regarding smart home technologies, we interviewed 23 parents who are smart home adopters. We contribute insights into parents' perceptions of the physical and digital safety risks smart home technologies pose to children, and how such perceptions formed and changed across three phases. In acquiring smart home devices, parents already considered whether the device could cause physical harm to their children or pose privacy and security risks. Once children become active users of smart home technologies, parents however reported encountering unanticipated physical safety risks and digital safety issues (e.g., exposure to unsuitable content) that required their mitigation strategies. As their children grow up, parents further expressed the need to shift attention from physical safety to digital safety. Parents' safety perceptions influence how they involve children in smart home interactions and implement mitigation strategies, such as restricting access to certain devices and using parental controls. We identify six factors that shape parents' perception and evaluation of smart home safety risks to children, including parenting style, parents' tech-savviness, parents' trust in tech companies, children's age and developmental differences, news media, and device characteristics. We provide design and policy recommendations to better protect children's safety in the smart home environment. CCS Concepts: • Security and privacy → Social aspects of security and privacy; Usability in security and privacy; • Human-centered computing → Ubiquitous and mobile devices; • Social and professional topics → Children.

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confidence: 84%

Child Safety in the Smart Home: Parents' Perceptions, Needs, and Mitigation Strategies

Sun

Zou

Radesky

et al. 2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…For example, Terry started conversations about passwords with other grandparents in the school yard while waiting for grandchildren, while Ken raised it at the pub while with friends. This method appears to be one of the most effective for communicating with CyberCitizens and subsequently driving behaviour change, something which is not surprising given that we know that most people learn about cybersecurity in an opportunistic manner, rather than actively seeking information [13]. Terry's acquaintance changed a number of his passwords after three conversations in the school yard, while Ken's friends began to forward him potential scam emails.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…It is important for older adults to feel safe when using online technologies. While cybersecurity protective information is typically not sought out by individuals [13], older adults may be more motivated to learn about protecting themselves due to their high fear of crime [15]. It is also well established that stress brought on by fear of cyberattacks engenders an emotion-focused coping response, which can lead to disengagement with cybersecurity behaviours [11] and/or lower interactions with online services.…”

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Training and Embedding Cybersecurity Guardians in Older Communities.

Nicholson

Morrison

Dixon

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Older adults can struggle to access relevant community expertise when faced with new situations. One such situation is the number of cyberattacks they may face when interacting online. This paper reports on an initiative which recruited, trained, and supported older adults to become community cybersecurity educators (CyberGuardians), tasked with promoting cybersecurity best practice within their communities to prevent older adults falling victim to opportunistic cyberattacks. This initiative utilised an embedded peer-to-peer information dissemination strategy, rather than expert-to-citizen, facilitating the inclusion of individuals who would ordinarily be unlikely to seek cybersecurity information and thus may be vulnerable to cyberattacks. We report on ways the CyberGuardians used informal methods to create more aware communities, served as role models for behaviour change and indirectly improved their personal wellbeing. We discuss considerations for supporting CyberGuardians, including implications for sustainability and for replicating this model in other digital contexts, e.g., recognising misinformation or improving mental health.CCS CONCEPTS •Security and privacy~Human and societal aspects of security and privacy~Social aspects of security and privacy •Social and professional topics~User characteristics~Age~Seniors •Human-centered computing~Human computer interaction (HCI)~HCI design and evaluation methods~Field studies

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“…Sauerwein1a et al compared public sources of security information [16]. Das et al studied how different users gain different information from security news [29]. Shillair and Meng compared the impact of different sources in changing users' security behaviours [17].…”

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Analysis of Trending Topics and Text-based Channels of Information Delivery in Cybersecurity

Wu¹,

Ma²,

Wen³

et al. 2020

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Computer users are generally faced with difficulties in making correct security decisions. While an increasingly fewer number of people are trying or willing to take formal security training, online sources including news, security blogs, and websites are continuously making security knowledge more accessible. Analysis of cybersecurity texts can provide insights into the trending topics and identify current security issues as well as how cyber attacks evolve over time. These in turn can support researchers and practitioners in predicting and preparing for these attacks. Comparing different sources may facilitate the learning process for normal users by persisting the security knowledge gained from different cybersecurity context. Prior studies neither systematically analysed the wide-range of digital sources nor provided any standardisation in analysing the trending topics from recent security texts. Although LDA has been widely adopted in topic generation, its generated topics cannot cover the cybersecurity concepts completely and considerably overlap. To address this issue, we propose a semiautomated classification method to generate comprehensive security categories instead of LDA-generated topics. We further compare the identified 16 security categories across different sources based on their popularity and impact. We have revealed several surprising findings. (1) The impact reflected from cybersecurity texts strongly correlates with the monetary loss caused by cybercrimes. (2) For most categories, security blogs share the largest popularity and largest absolute/relative impact over time.(3) Websites deliver security information without caring about timeliness much, where one third of the articles do not specify the date and the rest have a time lag in posting emerging security issues.

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Breaking! A Typology of Security and Privacy News and How It's Shared

Cited by 29 publications

References 14 publications

Child Safety in the Smart Home: Parents' Perceptions, Needs, and Mitigation Strategies

Child Safety in the Smart Home: Parents' Perceptions, Needs, and Mitigation Strategies

Training and Embedding Cybersecurity Guardians in Older Communities.

Analysis of Trending Topics and Text-based Channels of Information Delivery in Cybersecurity

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