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

Najla Aldaraani; Helen Petrie; Siamak F. Shahandashti

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

Najla Aldaraani, Helen Petrie, Siamak F. Shahandashti

Computer Science

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Abstract

Online security attacks are a worldwide issue, and increasing rapidly in the Middle East. Much of the research on the human aspects of online security has been conducted in developing countries, and although there have been a number of studies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), none of which compared experiences of users in different cultures. This study investigated the experiences and worries about online security attacks of 45 young adults in KSA and compared them with a previous study of young adults in the UK. Saudi young adults were most likely to have encountered phishing attacks and least likely to have encountered ransomware attacks. Their worries grouped into Theft Worries and Phishing Worries. These results were very similar to those found in the previous study in the UK, in spite of differences in the educational level, self-reported online security knowledge and ability to identify security attacks between the two samples. This suggests that online security attacks and the resulting worries are more international than might be predicted.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IFIP International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance, proceedings
Publisher	Springer
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 26 May 2023
Event	IFIP International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance - Canterbury, United Kingdom Duration: 4 Jul 2023 → 6 Jul 2023 Conference number: 17th https://haisa.org/

Conference

Conference	IFIP International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance
Abbreviated title	HAISA 2023
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Canterbury
Period	4/07/23 → 6/07/23
Internet address	https://haisa.org/

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Keywords

Experience of online security attacks
worries about online security attacks
young adults
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Aldaraani, N, Petrie, H & Shahandashti, SF 2023, Online Security Attack Experience and Worries of Young Adults in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. in IFIP International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance, proceedings. Springer, IFIP International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance, Canterbury, United Kingdom, 4/07/23.

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