Editorial preface

Abstract

This is the last issue of JIPS 2016. It has three articles and one book review. The first article, “Information privacy and the digital generation gap: An exploratory study” by Ruth Halperin and Yuval Dror, observes that more research is needed to understand how privacy is perceived and managed by people of different age groups and what measures are adequate for internet use across generations. They find that younger users are compelled to take privacy risks because of the desire for digital participation, whereas older users are seen to disclose less. They also observe that, “at the heart of the generation gap lies not the issue of awareness but rather the social price and lost opportunities of preserving privacy by restraining self-disclosure.” The next paper authored by O. Folorunso, Femi Ayo and Y. E Babalola introduces a network intrusion detection system based on combinatorial algorithm called CANIDS. The CANIDS uses additional databases for detecting new attacks and speeds up network traffic during traffic analysis. A comparison of CANIDS with similar online schemes was done and results show a better performance in terms of false positive rate and a better accuracy rate. The third article, “Perceived deception: Evaluating source credibility and self-efficacy,” by Dustin Ormond, Merrill Warkentin, Allen C. Johnston, and Samuel C. Thompson deals with scareware messages. They use the responses of 213 university faculty and staff and for analysis use a SEM. The study results show that high levels of deception detection, self-efficacy, and source trustworthiness increase the likelihood of an individual who perceives a scareware message as deceptive. Additionally, the authors observe that technology awareness enhances self-efficacy to detect deception and reduces individual perceptions of source trustworthiness. They also note that behavioral intention to use scareware is lower when the message is perceived as deceptive. In the Book Review section, Faruk Arslan reviews the book titled, Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread-The Lessons from a New Science, by Alex Pentland. He observes, “Social Physics is an intriguing and well-written book, which contains rich and relevant information for researchers and practitioners, who are interested in computational social science.”