scholarly journals Revealing Cyber Threat of Smart Mobile Devices within Digital Ecosystem: User Information Security Awareness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heru Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Security Awareness ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
User Behaviour ◽  
Cyber Threats ◽  
Framework Approach ◽  
Smart Mobile ◽  
Smart Mobile Devices

In recent years, the number of mobile device users has increased at a significant rate due to the rapid technological advancement in mobile technology. While mobile devices are providing more useful features to its users, it has also made it possible for cyber threats to migrate from desktops to mobile devices. Thus, it is important for mobile device users to be aware that their mobile device could be exposed to cyber threats and that users could protect their devices by employing cyber security measures. This study discusses how users in responded to the smart mobile devices (SMD) breaches. A number of behavioural model theories are used to understand the user behaviour towards security features of smart mobile devices. To assess the impact of smart mobile devices (SMD) security and privacy, surveys had been conducted with users, stressing on product preferences, user behaviour of SMD, as well as perceptions on the security aspect of SMD. The results was very interesting, where the findings revealed that there were a lack of positive relationships between SMD users and their level of SMD security awareness. A new framework approach to securing SMD is proposed to ensure that users have strong protection over their data within SMD.

scholarly journals The Implementation of Augmented Reality Applications in Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Kalliopi Kanaki ◽  
Nikolaos D. Katsali
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
Global Spread ◽  
Smart Mobile ◽  
Smart Mobile Devices

In this paper, we present augmented reality applications implemented by students and teachers of the 5th Vocational High School of Heraklion in Crete, within the context of informatics courses. The applications aim to enhance the traveling experience of the visitors of Heraklion city, exploiting the global spread of smart mobile devices in contemporary societies and the facilities they provide. The whole project was accomplished in a collaborative manner and focused on the provision of information about museums and monuments of Heraklion city. The applications have to be installed on the smart mobile device of the user.

scholarly journals An Authentication Scheme Based on Novel Construction of Hash Chains for Smart Mobile Devices

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Qinglong Huang ◽  
Haiping Huang ◽  
Wenming Wang ◽  
Qi Li ◽  
Yuhan Wu
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Hash Functions ◽  
Authentication Scheme ◽  
Hash Chain ◽  
Cryptographic Primitive ◽  
One Time Password ◽  
Smart Mobile ◽  
Smart Mobile Devices

With the increasing number of smart mobile devices, applications based on mobile network take an indispensable role in the Internet of Things. Due to the limited computing power and restricted storage capacity of mobile devices, it is very necessary to design a secure and lightweight authentication scheme for mobile devices. As a lightweight cryptographic primitive, the hash chain is widely used in various cryptographic protocols and one-time password systems. However, most of the existing research work focuses on solving its inherent limitations and deficiencies, while ignoring its security issues. We propose a novel construction of hash chain that consists of multiple different hash functions of different output lengths and employ it in a time-based one-time password (TOTP) system for mobile device authentication. The security foundation of our construction is that the order of the hash functions is confidential and the security analysis demonstrates that it is more secure than other constructions. Moreover, we discuss the degeneration of our construction and implement the scheme in a mobile device. The simulation experiments show that the attacker cannot increase the probability of guessing the order by eavesdropping on the invalid passwords.

scholarly journals Individual awareness of cyber-security vulnerability - Citizen and public servant

2018 ◽  
Vol 325 ◽  
pp. 411-422
Author(s):  
Krisztina Győrffy ◽  
Ferenc Leitold ◽  
Anthony Arrott
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Security Awareness ◽  
User Behaviour ◽  
Individual User ◽  
Cyber Threats ◽  
Individual Vulnerability ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
Monitoring Tools

Cyber-security is not concerned so much with average or median vulnerability in an organization. Rather more important is identifying the weakest links. Individual user susceptibility and user behaviour risk assessment are key to measuring the effectiveness of cyber-security awareness programs and policies. Increasingly, it has been demonstrated that managing individual user susceptibility is as critical to organization well-being as maintaining patched IT infrastructure or responding to specific immediate cyber-threat alerts. Despite IT systems audits, human factor studies, training courses, user policies, and user documentation, managing user cyber-security awareness remains one of the weakest links in protecting organizations from cyber-threats. Most employees are not aware of the cyber-threats they are most likely to encounter while performing their work. They are susceptible to malicious manipulation (social engineering threats) and they tend not to follow standard procedures (either through ignorance or in attempting to circumvent security procedures to achieve more productivity). Typically, employees only recognize the importance of cyber-security policies and practices after an incident has happened to themselves. With the increasing availability and utility of IT network traffic analysis tools and active user behaviour probes (e.g., fake-phishing), employees can be given direct and individual feedback to increase their cyber-security awareness and improve their cyber-security practices. Beyond an organization’s employees, the same holds for a country’s citizens, or a government’s public servants. At their best, these user behaviour monitoring tools can be used in an open and transparent way to increase awareness of individual vulnerability before actual incidents occur. In addition to presenting results from the application of user behaviour monitoring tools to cybersecurity, this paper examines the efficacy of the privacy protection safeguards that they incorporate. These results are applied to public sector approaches to: (a) public awareness of citizen cyber-health; (b) securing online pubic services; and (c) public servant awareness of their own vulnerability to cyber-threats.

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