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Agarsha Manoharan; Abiniah Sriskantharajah; H. M. K. K. M. B. Herath; L. G. P. K. Guruge; S. L. P. Yasakethu – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
MetaHuman technology's development and the Metaverse's growth have transformed virtual interactions and brought up new cybersecurity risks. This research provides cybersecurity awareness education tools for phishing attacks in the metaverse realm that use MetaHuman avatars, which turned out to be more dishonest than conventional phishing…
Descriptors: Information Security, Computer Security, Computer Simulation, Risk
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Ricci, Joseph; Breitinger, Frank; Baggili, Ibrahim – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
Cyberattacks and identity theft are common problems nowadays where researchers often say that humans are the weakest link the security chain. Therefore, this survey focused on analyzing the interest for adults for 'cyber threat eduction seminars', e.g., how to project themselves and their loved ones. Specifically, we asked questions to understand…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Crime, Adults, Seminars
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Amosun, Peter Adewale; Ige, Olugbenga Adedayo; Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond – Education and Information Technologies, 2015
Nigeria is considered by many to be a cyber crime hot spot, and is often ranked among the world's top cyber crime committing countries (e.g. advanced fee fraud is also known as Nigerian scams and 419 scams--419 is a section under the Nigerian Criminal Code Act that prohibits obtaining goods by false pretences). We designed a cyber crime prevention…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Crime, Computer Security, Crime Prevention