How can we tell if it's real research or fake research? On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote:
> Not breaking news, but this has been confirmed by a research now: > > "Web surfers have a standard reaction to error messages that pop up in their > Web browsers, according to new research published this week: > They click "OK" and hope it will disappear. > > Psychologists at North Carolina State University found that computer users > have a hard time distinguishing between fake Windows warning messages and the > real thing. > In an experiment that tested the responses of 42 Web-browsing university > students, they found that almost two-thirds of them > -- 63 percent -- would click "OK" whenever they saw a popup warning, whether > it was fake or not. > > "Many people fall for this style of attack by not recognizing the visual > elements that separate real and fake warning windows," > the researchers concluded in a paper delivered at an academic conference in > New York this week. > > That's bad news, security experts say, because fake popup messages can take > you to some very bad places on the Internet." > --clip-- > > More at > http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151505/computer_users_overeager_to_click_popup_oks.html > > Reference: > http://news.ncsu.edu/news/2008/09/wmswogalterfakemessage.php > > Unfortunately, those fake close buttons are not familiar to average users at > all... > > Juha-Matti > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
