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2022 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Online Security Attack Experience and Worries of Young Adults in the United Kingdom

Authors : Najla Aldaraani, Helen Petrie, Siamak F. Shahandashti

Published in: Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Online security issues continue to grow as a concern, amplified by the coronavirus pandemic. The current cohort of young people (aged 18–30, “Generation Z”) are the first to have grown up with digital technologies, but to what extent are they worried about online security attacks and what experience do they have of them? An online survey of 81 young UK participants investigated their experience with 12 scenarios presenting online security attacks, asked about their level of worry with 9 online security attacks and their knowledge of computer and online security, and their confidence in their ability to identity an attack. Experience with the online attacks ranged widely, from over 50% of participants experiencing spear phishing to attempt identity theft, to only 2.5% experiencing a spoofed website. A principal components analysis showed that worries clearly fell into two components: Theft Worry and Phishing Worry. Levels of worry on these two components could be predicted from the number of different online security attacks participants had experienced. These relationships may be useful for developing education and advice to encourage better online security behaviour.

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Principal Components Analysis is a technique to reduce a number of variables to the set which describes the data in the smallest possible number of variables with the least loss of information. It is a non-parametric analysis method. A requirement is that at least 5 observations are needed for each variable in the analysis. With 9 statements (i.e. variables), observations from 81 participants comfortably met this requirement.
 
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Metadata
Title
Online Security Attack Experience and Worries of Young Adults in the United Kingdom
Authors
Najla Aldaraani
Helen Petrie
Siamak F. Shahandashti
Copyright Year
2022
Book
Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance

Print ISBN: 978-3-031-12171-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-12172-2

Copyright Year: 2022

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12172-2_24

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