A clinical study of risk factors related to malware infections
Fanny Lalonde Lévesque, Jude Jacob Nsiempba, José M. Fernandez, Sonia Chiasson, Anil Somayaji · 2013
The success of malicious software (malware) depends upon both technical and human factors. The most security conscious users are vulnerable to zero-day exploits; the best security mechanisms can be circumvented by poor user choices. While there has been significant research addressing the technical aspects of malware attack and defense, there has been much less research reporting on how human behavior interacts with both malware and current malware defenses.