"Using Personalized Warning Interfaces to Protect Against Phishing Website Attacks"
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Lubar College of Business have been exploring phishing website attacks and how to reduce them. According to the research team, while most browsers include phishing detection tools to warn users about phishing website attacks, many people are unaware of such tools. Many people do not trust a warning and become victims of their own security behaviors. However, the researchers say users cannot be blamed for such actions as they rarely interact and form a relationship with detection tools quietly running in the background. An unfamiliar warning message on an interface that is rarely seen does little to convince users to trust its authenticity. The team hypothesizes that if the warning interface could be personalized by allowing users to design their own, it would be possible to alter their security behaviors in order to increase their compliance and self-protection against phishing website attacks. Allowing users to design their own warning interface fosters a close relationship with the detection tool and its warning, increasing their trust and compliance. This article continues to discuss the study "Ontology-Based Intelligent Interface Personalization for Protection Against Phishing Attacks."
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