Crime Science and the Internet Battlefield: Securing the Analog World from Digital Crime

Gradoń, Kacper

doi:10.1109/msp.2013.112

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“…In parallel there are calls for SNS to introduce tools (e.g. anti-bullying reporting tools) and automatic security measures (such as dual factor identification requests when users log-in from unknown computers), and give greater control to users (Gradon, 2013;Cassidy et al, 2012;Whittle et al, 2012). This paper adds to these calls by suggesting that not only do privacy settings, their availability, ease of discovery and ease of use are important from a perceived privacy point of view, but they might be also important in making users more responsible for their personal information, as we have shown that users who perceive high levels of control are less likely to be victimised.…”

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“…Among such inadvertent outcomes of social networking use are breaches of personal information security, which have become repeatedly reported in the press. Personal and security sensitive information losses resulting from cybercrime, including online identity theft or usurpation (Al-Daraiseh et al, 2014;Reyns and Henson, 2015), financial fraud, stalking and blackmail, are on the rise (Gradon, 2013;Guitton, 2013).…”

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Individual information security, user behaviour and cyber victimisation: An empirical study of social networking users

Saridakis

Benson

Ezingeard

et al. 2016

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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While extant literature on privacy in social networks is plentiful, issues pertaining to information security remain largely unexplored. This paper empirically examines the relationship between online victimisation and users' activity and perceptions of personal information security on social networking services (SNS). Based on a survey of active users, we explore how behavioural patterns on social networks, personal characteristics and technical efficacy of users impact the risk of facing online victimisation. Our results suggest that users with high-risk propensity are more likely to become victims of cybercrime, whereas those with high perceptions of their ability to control information shared on SNS are less likely to become victims. The study shows that there is a negative and statistically significant association between multipurpose dominant SNS (e.g. Facebook, Google+) usage and victimisation. However, activity on the SNS for knowledge exchange (e.g. LinkedIn, Blogger) has a positive and statistically significant association with online victimisation. Our results have implications for practice as they inform the social media industry that protection of individual information security on SNS cannot be left entirely to the user. The importance of user awareness in the context of social technologies plays an important role in preventing victimisation, and social networking services should provide adequate controls to protect personal information.

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Individual information security, user behaviour and cyber victimisation: An empirical study of social networking users

Saridakis

Benson

Ezingeard

et al. 2016

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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“…Ransomware authors have developed a number of clever tricks to make it hard to undo their work, but following are some tricks from you can check whether you are proceeding towards infection or not [14].…”

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Survey on Ransomware: A New Era of Cyber Attack

Krunal¹,

Kumar²

2017

IJCA

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In today's world, a most popular crime is Cybercrime. In this paper through a literature study, effect of ransomware is discussed. In this needy internet world, how crucial is to use a non-secure connection and how it will track a normal user or unaware user into the trap of hacker and after that losing money in terms of bit-coins. At last, with the damage cause by the latest attack of ransomware around the world is proved that there is lacks of awareness among the company professionals is confirmed and pay a high amount of money in bit-coins.

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“…Amongst such inadvertent outcomes of social networking use are online breaches of personal information security, which have been repeatedly reported in the press. 4 Personal and security sensitive information losses resulting from cybercrime, including online identity theft, financial fraud, and even blackmail, are on the rise (Gradon, 2013;Guitton, 2013). Chellappa and Pavlou (2002) maintain that such breaches of security influence the perceived security and trust of online customers, however, security protection mechanisms such as encryption, authentication and visual notices have been found to positively contribute to customer perceptions of security (Chellappa and Pavlou, 2002).…”

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The role of security notices and online consumer behaviour: An empirical study of social networking users

Benson

Saridakis

Tennakoon

et al. 2015

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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a b s t r a c tThis paper uses a survey of social networking users to empirically explore their perceptions of security notices -independently verified artefacts informing internet site users that security measures are taken by the site owner. We investigate such factors as purchase experience, purchase intention, risk propensity, usage of various social network categories and user victimisation. The results suggest a strong positive link between purchase intention and paying attention to security notices/features on social networks. We find that higher use of narrow-purpose social networking services has a negative association with paying attention to security notices. We also show that users with higher risk propensity pay less attention to security notices/features. Finally, we find no association between purchase experience, user victimisation and perception of security notices/features. Our results provide new, and possibly more refined, evidence of the factors that influence the attention paid to security notices/features by social media users. The results have important implications for theory development, policy and practice.

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Crime Science and the Internet Battlefield: Securing the Analog World from Digital Crime

Cited by 13 publications

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Individual information security, user behaviour and cyber victimisation: An empirical study of social networking users

Individual information security, user behaviour and cyber victimisation: An empirical study of social networking users

Survey on Ransomware: A New Era of Cyber Attack

The role of security notices and online consumer behaviour: An empirical study of social networking users

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