" All of them claim to be the best": Multi-perspective study of {VPN} users and {VPN} providers

R Ramesh, A Vyas, R Ensafi - 32nd USENIX Security Symposium …, 2023 - usenix.org
As more users adopt VPNs for a variety of reasons, it is important to develop empirical
knowledge of their needs and mental models of what a VPN offers. Moreover, studying VPN …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives of non-expert users on cyber security and privacy: An analysis of online discussions on twitter

N Pattnaik, S Li, JRC Nurse - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
Many researchers have studied non-expert users' perspectives of cyber security and privacy
aspects of computing devices at home, but their studies are mostly small-scale empirical …

How and why people use virtual private networks

A Dutkowska-Zuk, A Hounsel, A Morrill… - 31st USENIX Security …, 2022 - usenix.org
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are often used to protect online users' privacy, but many
VPNs do not guarantee privacy and may even compromise user privacy through leakage of …

Security at the End of the Tunnel: The Anatomy of {VPN} Mental Models Among Experts and {Non-Experts} in a Corporate Context

V Binkhorst, T Fiebig, K Krombholz, W Pieters… - 31st USENIX Security …, 2022 - usenix.org
With the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 necessitating working from
home, corporate Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have become an important item securing …

“taking out the trash”: Why security behavior change requires intentional forgetting

J Hielscher, A Kluge, U Menges… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Security awareness is big business–virtually every organization in the Western world
provides some form of awareness or training, mostly bought from external vendors …

[PDF][PDF] " I just hated it and I want my money back": Data-driven Understanding of Mobile VPN Service Switching Preferences in The Wild

R Raj, M Newar, M Mondal - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.01648, 2024 - usenix.org
Abstract Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are a crucial Privacy-Enhancing Technology (PET)
leveraged by millions of users and catered by multiple VPN providers worldwide; thus …

How do non experts think about cyber attack consequences?

KS Jones, NR Lodinger, BP Widlus… - … & Computer Security, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Nonexperts do not always follow the advice in cybersecurity warning messages. To
increase compliance, it is recommended that warning messages use nontechnical …

Paying for privacy in a digital age: willingness to pay for attributes in a VPN (Virtual Private Network) service, and its relation to privacy literacy

EPARJ Neto - 2023 - repositorio.iscte-iul.pt
This Master Thesis focuses on estimating the willingness to pay for attributes in a VPN
(Virtual Private Network) service, and how those estimates relate to privacy literacy. In this …

Investigating the VPN Ecosystem through the Lens of Security, Privacy, and Usability

R Ramesh - 2023 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
Global events affect the Internet in new ways every day, be it through increased blocking
during sensitive events or through user tracking, surveillance, and targeting. Governments …

[PDF][PDF] łTaking out the Trashž: Why Security Behavior Change Requires Intentional Forgetting

J Hielscher, A Kluge, U Menges… - New Security Paradigms …, 2021 - academia.edu
Security awareness is big business ś virtually every organization in the Western world
provides some form of awareness or training, mostly bought from external vendors …