Exploring HTTPS security inconsistencies: A cross-regional perspective

Perspective | Regional Security Policy in West Africa

The Security Impact of HTTPS Interception

As HTTPS deployment grows, middlebox and antivirus products are increasingly intercepting TLS connections to retain visibility into network traffic. In this work, we present a comprehensive study on the prevalence and impact of HTTPS interception. First, we show that web servers can detect interception by identifying a mismatch between the HTTP User-Agent header and TLS client behavior. We char...

Exploring the Nature of Security Awareness: a Philosophical Perspective

Security awareness is acknowledged as one of the true culprits in many failures in information security management, yet very limited amount of literature has explored the nature of security awareness. Although few studies have proposed guidelines of how to study and measure it, the power of those approaches appears to be inherently limited. To fill such gaps, the objectives of this paper are (1...

A Cross-cultural and Gender-based Perspective for Online Security: Exploring Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes of Higher Education Students

Preparing students adequately against online-attacks is a constant teaching and learning challenge, no matter how many advanced security-related courses have been developed for higher education curricula worldwide. Recently emphasis has also been put on online identity theft and social awareness in general. The authors research the knowledge, skills and attitudes of future IT professionals, fro...

Euthanasia: a regional perspective

81 ANNALS EDITORIAL It is paradoxical to talk about euthanasia when we are hearing people dying all over the world without willing to die such as in Iraq, Ukraine, Egypt, Palestine and so on. Life is full of contradictions, perplexing complexities, and infinite possibilities. If you ask anyone if he or she wants to die most likely you will get an answer 'no'. On the other hand, we hear every da...