Alaa Nehme

Mississippi State University | MSU

Ransomware attacks and similar threats have become increasingly prevalent, often involving demands for ransom payments, sometimes repeated. This underscores the critical importance of organizational learning (OL) in protecting information assets. However, OL alone may not suffice to prevent cyberattacks exploiting zero-day capabilities. Thus, this...

Robust password management is crucial for users’ information security. The use of password manager technology, which constitutes adaptive coping, is the dominant method for robust password management. Nonetheless, many users engage in maladaptive coping, adopting poor password management behaviors, such as using easy-to-remember passwords and using...

Virtual Lies and Digital Truths: A Review of Research on Deception in Online Communication reviews previous research that lies at the intersection of deception and computer-mediated communication and examines future directions that this research may be attuned to. As new varieties of online deception attract new researchers to the research effort,...

Not securing smart home devices has proven threatful to cyberspace. This has underscored the importance of using fear appeals to promote users' information security behavior. We practice context-specific theorization to enhance fear appeal theory and design. Particularly, we extend Protection Motivation Theory to include avoidant-focused motivation...

Prior studies have established that organizations learn better from failure than from success. Nevertheless, cybersecurity crises resulting from cyberattacks tell a different story. It has been reported that some organizations have encountered repeat ransomware attacks, causing them to pay a second or even a third ransom. Due to the recurrences of...