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This study explores the current state of cyber-security awareness among cell phone users living in South Africa. The study used a scorecard approach to measure the level of cyber-security awareness among cell phone users in Rocklands Township, South Africa. Following a description of the scorecard and its application, a brief discussion of the results obtained is presented. The scorecard suggested that individual respondents (cell phone users) were most likely vulnerable to cyber-security threats due to their lack of adequate cyber-security awareness (and, consequently, in many cases, their behaviour was risky).
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Shabe, T., Kritzinger, E., Loock, M. (2017). Scorecard Approach for Cyber-Security Awareness. In: Huang, TC., Lau, R., Huang, YM., Spaniol, M., Yuen, CH. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Education. SETE 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10676. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71084-6_16
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