Analysis of user awareness on phishing attempt among student

The world that we are living in now is surrounded by emerging technology. Technology has undoubtedly improved human lifestyle. As days go by, the combination of technology and internet have taken over the digital world now. It is seen in our daily lifestyle that people are connected to this technolo...

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spelling my-utm-ep.483482017-08-14T00:12:45Z Analysis of user awareness on phishing attempt among student 2014 Nagalingam, Vanisri TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering The world that we are living in now is surrounded by emerging technology. Technology has undoubtedly improved human lifestyle. As days go by, the combination of technology and internet have taken over the digital world now. It is seen in our daily lifestyle that people are connected to this technology everywhere. With the increase of internet usage, every activity easily done through online from online banking to online meeting. There are many types of online attacks and one of the famous online attacks is phishing. Phishing attacks exploit email or malicious websites to seek personal information by posing as a truthful party. To protect users from phishing attacks a proper analysis need to be done to understand how users interact with those attacks. In this thesis I present analysis in user awareness on phishing attempt among students. A proper data collection through mixed method which is through web based survey and an interview will be conducted. In the end an appropriate awareness guidelines will be propose to targeted users. 2014 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48348/ masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing Faculty of Computing
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
collection UTM Institutional Repository
topic TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
Nagalingam, Vanisri
Analysis of user awareness on phishing attempt among student
description The world that we are living in now is surrounded by emerging technology. Technology has undoubtedly improved human lifestyle. As days go by, the combination of technology and internet have taken over the digital world now. It is seen in our daily lifestyle that people are connected to this technology everywhere. With the increase of internet usage, every activity easily done through online from online banking to online meeting. There are many types of online attacks and one of the famous online attacks is phishing. Phishing attacks exploit email or malicious websites to seek personal information by posing as a truthful party. To protect users from phishing attacks a proper analysis need to be done to understand how users interact with those attacks. In this thesis I present analysis in user awareness on phishing attempt among students. A proper data collection through mixed method which is through web based survey and an interview will be conducted. In the end an appropriate awareness guidelines will be propose to targeted users.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Nagalingam, Vanisri
author_facet Nagalingam, Vanisri
author_sort Nagalingam, Vanisri
title Analysis of user awareness on phishing attempt among student
title_short Analysis of user awareness on phishing attempt among student
title_full Analysis of user awareness on phishing attempt among student
title_fullStr Analysis of user awareness on phishing attempt among student
title_full_unstemmed Analysis of user awareness on phishing attempt among student
title_sort analysis of user awareness on phishing attempt among student
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing
granting_department Faculty of Computing
publishDate 2014
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