Information Management & Computer Security: Volume 22 Issue 2

A security education Q&A

Eugene Kaspersky, Steven Furnell

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of cyber security education as a means of enabling skilled professionals and ensuring adequate awareness amongst end…

Quick detection of NFC vulnerability: Implementation weakness exploitation

Firman Azhari

The purpose of this research is to explain particular implementation weaknesses of near field communication (NFC) systems done by several institutions which apply for critical…

Grammar-based transformations: attack and defence

Dusan Repel, Ingo Stengel

This research aims to propose an attack that de-obfuscates codes by exploiting the properties of context-free grammars since it is important to understand the strength of…

The effect of adaptive mechanism on behavioural biometric based mobile phone authentication

Weizhi Meng, Duncan S. Wong, Lam-For Kwok

This paper aims to design a compact scheme of behavioural biometric-based user authentication, develop an adaptive mechanism that selects an appropriate classifier in an adaptive…

Improving passwords: influence of emotions on security behaviour

Iwan Gulenko

This paper aims to study the influence of emotions on security behaviour by reviewing Information Systems Security (ISS) topics in Information Systems (IS) literature. Researchers…

Snakes and ladders for digital natives: information security education for the youth

Rayne Reid, Johan Van Niekerk

This paper aims to educate the youth about information security. Cyber technologies and services are increasingly becoming integrated into individual’s daily lives. As such…