ASSIGNMENT
Cybercrime is inescapable it seems. Nowadays the questions is not if we will become a victim of cybercrime, but when. Still, we should always do our best to keep ourselves as safe as we can. Unfortunately, us people are not the best to adhere to cybersecurity rules (when was the last time you changed your vital passwords?).
In this internship you will help set-up a new research project to see how we can study cybercrime the best and how we can foster behaviour change in people to be more careful regarding cybersecurity. The internship student has to be willing to do extensive literature research, collaborate to construct a new study that aims to understand what ways we can study cybercrime via for example VR. You will have a lot of freedom in this internship to set-up research and your own contribution to this study is valued and highly appreciated.
KEYWORDS
Cybercrime; behaviour change; crime prevention.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ORGANIZATION
The section Psychology of Conflict, Risk and Safety at the University of Twente has a distinctive and unique profile in the areas of risk perception and risk communication, conflict and crisis management and the antecedents of risky, antisocial and criminal behaviour. It currently includes 16 research staff members and 8 PhD students. We work from both a psychology and an engineering perspective and cooperate with other scientific disciplines, based on the “high tech, human touch” profile of the University of Twente.
AVAILABILITY
Usually anytime. This internship is open for 1 student.
INTERESTED?
Please contact the internship coordinator Miriam Oostinga (m.s.d.oostinga@utwente.nl).
LITERATURE
- Bullee, J. W., & Junger, M. (2020). How effective are social engineering interventions? A meta-analysis. Information & Computer Security, 28(5), 801-830.
- Kankane, S., DiRusso, C., & Buckley, C. (2018, April). Can we nudge users toward better password management? an initial study. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-6).