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Purpose: With the emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the usage of e-money has been reinforced to reach the next level. Therefore, this study aims to examine the mediating role of perceived behavioral control (PBC) on the nexus of customers' innovativeness and continuance intention of electronic money (e-money). This study also explores the moderating roles of perceived risk (PR) and electronic security (e-security) in relationships. Design/methodology/approach: The authors employed a structured questionnaire for data collection and the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) for empirical estimations. Findings: The authors' findings reveal that customers' innovativeness promotes continuance intention of using e-money and demonstrate that PBC partially mediates the relation between customers' innovativeness and continuance intention of using e-money. The empirical findings also reveal that PR negatively moderates the relationship between customers' innovativeness and continuance intention and the relationship between customers' innovativeness and PBC. The empirical findings also exhibit that perceived e-security enhances the degree of the relationship between customers' innovativeness and continuance intention and the relationship between customers' innovativeness and PBC. Practical implications: The findings shed light on an important factor that increases the likelihood of repeat e-money usage and has direct managerial implications for customer experience and risk concerns. Hence, the findings imply that e-money service providers should run a promotional advertisement highlighting what additional features are included or offered and how these could be beneficial for the customers. Furthermore, e-money service providers should provide some tutorial videos in order to increase innovative customers' control over e-money services as well as highlight how risk and security are protected. Originality/value: This paper integrates three key theories: the diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory, the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the PR theory in post-adoption behavior of e-money usage. The current study also attempts to fill a literature gap by examining the moderating role of PR and e-security, which could be useful within the relationship between customers' innovativeness, PBC and customers' continued intentions of e-money usage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Millennial purchases of footwear products online have grown in South Africa. Consequently, retailers in the country should develop increased knowledge of these consumers’ online expectations to strengthen their satisfaction and future loyalty intentions. The study aimed to explore the factors influencing millennial consumers’ e-satisfaction and e-loyalty when buying footwear online in South Africa. An enhanced understanding is required of the factors impacting millennial consumers’ e-service experiences and e-trust behaviour, and their influence on e-satisfaction when purchasing footwear online. Data were collected from 248 respondents who bought footwear online over the past year. An online questionnaire and structural equation modelling were used to measure the hypotheses. In terms of the findings, website design secured the most significant impact on customer e-service experience, when buying footwear through an online platform. In addition, it was established that e-satisfaction significantly impacted millennial consumers’ e-loyalty when buying footwear online. As such, it is imperative for online retailers targeting millennials to ensure a superior online shopping experience that will exceed their expectations. This will enhance the overall e-satisfaction experience of millennials and ultimately positively influence their attitudinal loyalty (AL) towards the retailer.

This research aims to establish the impact of online deception and e-security on behavioural intentions towards e-retailers in Saudi Arabia, as well as highlight the mediating effects of online shopping's perceived value and e-trust. An electronic survey was distributed through email and social media to Saudi consumers, resulting in 216 valid responses from e-shopping adopters. The emergent relationships between the variables were identified, and some managerial implications were proposed. The originality of this work stems from how it tests the impact of perceived online deception and e-security on e-trust, online shopping value, and behavioural intentions. E-trust and online shopping value were positioned, and subsequently verified, as mediators between the proposed dependent and independent variables. The results reveal that trust towards e-retailers plays a mediating role in the relationship between online deception and perceived online shopping value. Furthermore, the indirect impact of trust towards an e-retailer on behavioural intentions is also partially mediated by online shopping's perceived value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research introduces an innovative approach to explore the cognitive and biologically inspired underpinnings of feature vector splitting for analyzing the significance of different attributes in e-security biometric signature recognition applications. Departing from traditional methods of concatenating features into an extended set, we employ multiple splitting strategies, aligning with cognitive principles, to preserve control over the relative importance of each feature subset. Our methodology is applied to three diverse databases (MCYT100, MCYT300, and SVC) using two classifiers (vector quantization and dynamic time warping with one and five training samples). Experimentation demonstrates that the fusion of pressure data with spatial coordinates (x and y) consistently enhances performance. However, the inclusion of pen-tip angles in the same feature set yields mixed results, with performance improvements observed in select cases. This work delves into the cognitive aspects of feature fusion, shedding light on the cognitive relevance of feature vector splitting in e-security biometric applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Online Banking has developed tremendously all over the world at a rapid pace but still there is a high amount of reluctance among the banking customers to adopt this system apart from the various security concerns they have. This research study seeks to evaluate the use of biometrics in the online banking industry for user authentication so that the banking consumers primarily make use of online banking. The study adopts qualitative method of data collection whereby it reveals the user perceptions and their intention to use biometric in online banking for further authentication. The study also recommends the various factors influencing the implementation of biometrics in online banking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Online handwritten analysis presents many applications in e-security, signature biometrics being the most popular but not the only one. Handwriting analysis also has an important set of applications in e-health. Both kinds of applications (e-security and e-health) have some unsolved questions and relations among them that should be addressed in the next years. We summarize the state of the art and applications based on handwriting signals. Later on, we focus on the main achievements and challenges that should be addressed by the scientific community, providing a guide for future research. Among all the points discussed in this article, we remark the importance of considering security, health, and metadata from a joint perspective. This is especially critical due to the risks inherent when using these behavioral signals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a concept, electronic government is directed to improving the efficiency of the activity of the state institutions and improving the living standards of citizens. Formation of the electronic state determines the pace of development of human rights and freedoms in accordance with the requirements of the time, among which the rights of information are of particular importance. However, in a situation where the completeness, accessibility and confidentiality of information is not fully ensured, there are obstacles to the realization of information rights. Therefore, the organization of information security is one of the means of guaranteeing information rights. In this regard, information security should be analyzed not only from technical aspect but also from human rights law. These highlights confirm the relevance of the topic of the article. The article’s objective is to analyze the notions “e-government”, “e-parliament” and “e-court”, to list priorities of e-state from aspect of human rights and freedoms provision, to determine the legal, theoretical and technical approaches to the information security in various models of e-government, to define difference between electronic security or information security, to research the importance of e-governance from the human rights aspect and to put forward suggestions about protection of information rights violated in cyberspace. The authors conclude that, full access to information, in new society ensures information and other rights and freedoms. Therefore, the lack of information security or low level of information security prevents the e-government from benefiting its citizens. One such barrier is considered an electronic divide or digital divide. Due to the global nature of cyberspace and information society, these problems should be solved not only at national level but also internationally. Above all, security should not be taken from the technical aspect. This prevents problems from being solved. Information security should also be analyzed as a legal institution, and the distinction between the terms “information protection” and “information defence” should be clarified. The legal aspect of the matter should be expressed. Thus, the authors conclude with an optimistic approach that elimination the problems arising during the formation of e-government will serve both to promote basic human rights and freedoms, and to make every citizen an active member of the digital society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of coopetition has been evolving with rapid growth in the number of academic publications in this field. A number of literature reviews have been published focusing on nature, antecedents of coopetition and future perspectives of its implementation. Coopetition is proved to be beneficial for joint investments and Research and development (R&D) projects, and yet competitive games take place in the global markets that may lead to safety hazards. There are few studies that investigate possible perspectives of coopetition strategy for solutions in safety and security, and therefore considering the global tendencies objective, necessity arises for a more detailed study of it. The analysis begins by identifying over 600 published studies where the terms "coopetition", "safety", "security" were used. Using rigorous bibliometric tools, established and emergent research clusters were identified, as well as the most influential studies, the most contributing authors and topical areas for further investigations. The systematic combination of quantitative and qualitative analytical tools helps to identify the potential directions for future research. By combining bibliometric analysis and content analysis, the main perspective areas for coopetition implementation towards safety and security were identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The widespread availability of hand-held devices like tablets, phablets and smart phones, along with their new handwriting digitizing and their increased computing powers, enable these to process the graphomotor dimension and the lognormal trends of human handwriting. By exploiting such capacity, it becomes possible to extend these mobile devices into Personal Digital Bodyguards ( PDB s). PDBs will be able to supplement people's sensitive data protection with signature verification, equipment use security with writer authentication and handwritten CAPTCHAs processing (e-security ), and to enhance human-machine interaction performances through words spotting and handwriting recognition (e-recognition). For young children, these tools will turn into interactive toys helping them to learn and master their fine motor control and become better writers. For advanced students they will enable sophisticated systems for (e-learning) and (e-testing) . Moreover, PDBs will also be able to provide the user with fine motor control monitoring, which can detect stress, aging and health problems (e-health) . This paper presents a prospective survey of various projects dealing with these five e-fields of investigation, focussing on state of the art results and providing directions in research and development, under the theoretical umbrella of the Kinematic Theory of human movements and its Lognormality Principle. From a practical point of view, the concept of lognormality provides a fundamental common thread, an integrative psychophysical standpoint to track the graphomotor problems of signature verification, writer identification, handwriting generation, recognition and learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of coopetition has been evolving with rapid growth in the number of academic publications in this field. A number of literature reviews have been published focusing on nature, antecedents of coopetition and future perspectives of its implementation. Coopetition is proved to be beneficial for joint investments and Research and development (R&D) projects, and yet competitive games take place in the global markets that may lead to safety hazards. There are few studies that investigate possible perspectives of coopetition strategy for solutions in safety and security, and therefore considering the global tendencies objective, necessity arises for a more detailed study of it. The analysis begins by identifying over 600 published studies where the terms “coopetition”, “safety”, “security” were used. Using rigorous bibliometric tools, established and emergent research clusters were identified, as well as the most influential studies, the most contributing authors and topical areas for further investigations. The systematic combination of quantitative and qualitative analytical tools helps to identify the potential directions for future research. By combining bibliometric analysis and content analysis, the main perspective areas for coopetition implementation towards safety and security were identified.

Security has become one of the key research domains of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Information security and privacy concerns in e-learning environment are crucial because multiple users are communicating via networking (Internet). On the other hand developers show negligible tilt in this regard while developing an e-learning system. Internet is the core mean of communication in e-learning which is inherently an insecure medium. Furthermore, Internet is available for all so it is also becoming the hub of various prohibited activities. Due to this interconnectivity, data or information is exposed to the large numbers of security threats and vulnerabilities. This study intends to explore the security challenges encountered by e-learning environment in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) of Pakistan. A thorough review about security issue has been presented and concerns about local environment are emphasized. The remedies to the security threats have also been suggested to ensure the secure electronic learning environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Consumer distrust and concerns, mainly in regards to the protection of their private information and risk of being exposed to online frauds, have been the main obstacles in online commerce. This paper analyzes some of the most significant aspects of trust in e-commerce, with a focus on online security and privacy issues. With all the potential that e-commerce provides to both companies and consumers, it is in the interest of the company to increase trust among its online users. Some of the most common online crimes are analyzed and practical guidelines to achieving trust in the online environment are provided.

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As universities seek to adopt increased e-business, e-commerce and e-learning initiates, the overall approach taken for security management within the organisation plays an increasingly relevant role. In many cases security in universities is approached through the addition of tactical solutions. Often systems security is added on as a final consideration instead of during early design stages. This approach can be incomprehensive and inefficient. Although this approach can provide limited security, there is no guarantee that business requirements for security are incorporated and integrated effectively. This situation is partly due to security management in Australian universities being challenged by the complexity of both university culture and diverse operating environments. In many circumstances the champion for security in universities tends to be relegated to an officer in the IT department, hidden away from the business itself. Often this person with operational responsibility for security will have a detailed understanding of what should occur in security, but faces difficulties in determining exactly how to go about achieving this on an enterprise level. In order to assist in securing university IT systems and thereby improving e-business security, this research proposes a security practitioner's management model. This model is aimed at facilitating the transition of security knowledge into actual implementation across the enterprise, with an end goal of an improved culture of compliance towards security practices in the university sector. This work is of significant value as it results from a study into specific security management issues facing Australian universities. This study highlights that future research would be well-placed to focus on benchmarking information security management within the university sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, a digital watermarking algorithm for copyright protection based on the concept of embed digital watermark and modifying frequency coefficients in discrete wavelet transform (DWT) domain is presented. We embed the watermark into the detail wavelet coefficients of the original image with the use of a key. This key is randomly generated and is used to select the exact locations in the wavelet domain in which to embed the watermark. The corresponding watermark detection algorithm is presented. A new metric that measure the objective quality of the image based on the detected watermark bit is introduced, which the original unmarked image is not required for watermark extraction. The performance of the proposed watermarking algorithm is robust to variety of signal distortions, such a JPEG, image cropping, geometric transformations and noises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

EU homeland security agenda and the associated biometric instruments signal the increasing securitisation of the EU but challenge the EU's commitment to the principles of freedom, democracy and justice. The doctrine of exceptionalism and use of EU biometry to service immigration and internal security priorities (such as combating terrorism and the US homeland security agenda) may compromise EU legitimacy and raise the spectre of the concept of citizens as suspects. The article outlines the claims of 'exceptionalism' used to rationalise e-security, biometry and PNR. It concludes with thoughts on the citizen as suspect and the step change from viewing the citizen as an empowered individual in the supranational political space to the citizen as the object of supranational security agencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]