Trends in users' security perceptions regarding mobile phone usage

  • Authors:
  • Iosif Androulidakis;Gorazd Kandus

  • Affiliations:
  • Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia;Department of Communication Systems at Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Venue:
  • ICCOM'10 Proceedings of the 14th WSEAS international conference on Communications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Following a similar survey about users' security perceptions regarding mobile phone usage that took place in 2009 [23] we repeated the process in an extended pool of respondents at the same place (University of Ioannina, Greece) reaching 780 answers. Results show that users still don't take the necessary measures to avoid a possible unauthorized access and/or sensitive data retrieval from their mobile phone. It is unquestionable that since users fail to secure their mobile phones, industry and academia should proceed to educating them and designing better user interfaces in order to mitigate the dangers.