The state of advice given to people today on how to stay safe online has plenty of room for
improvement. Too many things are asked of them, which may be unrealistic, time …

Users often don't follow expert advice for staying secure online, but the reasons for users'
noncompliance are only partly understood. More than 200 security experts were asked for …

A 2015 study by Iulia Ion, Rob Reeder, and Sunny Consolvo examined the self-reported
security behavior of security experts and non-experts. They also analyzed what kind of …

End users learn defensive security behaviors from a variety of channels, including a plethora
of security advice given in online articles. A great deal of effort is devoted to getting users to …

It is often suggested that users are hopelessly lazy and unmotivated on security questions.
They chose weak passwords, ignore security warnings, and are oblivious to certificates …

There's an old joke that computers are actually easy machines to secure: just turn them off,
lock them in a metal-lined room, and throw away the key. What you end up with is a machine …

Usable security researchers have long been interested in what users do to keep their
devices and data safe and how that compares to recommendations. Additionally, experts …

Users will pay attention to reliable and credible indicators of risks they want to avoid.
Security mechanisms with a high false positive rate undermine the credibility of security and …

Few users have a single, authoritative, source from whom they can request digital-security
advice. Rather, digital-security skills are often learned haphazardly, as users filter through …

Despite an impressive effort at raising the general populace's security sensitivity—the
awareness of, motivation to use, and knowledge of how to use security and privacy tools …