...Jiangwei Li; Alton Chua Purpose This paper aims to investigate the influence of message involvement, suspicion and phishing awareness on users’ susceptibility to phishing attacks through the theoretical lens of the truth-default theory. Design/methodology/approach An online scenario-based...

... about phishing detection and more proficient in identifying phishing attacks, it reduces the incidence of successful phishing attacks and improves security (Frauenstein and von Solms, 2014 , p. 1; Sarel and Marmorstein, 2006 , p. 105). Anti-phishing awareness, education and training initiatives...

... Internet safe practices phishing awareness phishing countermeasures Short-term memory The Internet is becoming an increasingly important resource for people in the modern society. They use it for a variety of purposes ranging from net banking to social networking. Internet enables people...