Internet threats to end-users: Hunting easy prey

✍ Scribed by Steven Furnell

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 250 KB
• Volume: 2005
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1353-4858
• DOI: 10.1016/s1353-4858(05)70258-0

✦ Synopsis

Unfortunately, while they may appreciate the existence of a general risk, it is questionable whether end-users as a whole really understand the nature of the threats, or the extent to which they are protected. As a consequence, some may be left with feelings of unease, and the overall impression that cyberspace is not a safe place to be, while others may overestimate their protection and act in a cavalier manner. It is important to ensure that users themselves do not undermine the attempts to protect them.

Internet threats to end-users: hunting easy prey