Further, the study encourages organizations to focus more on specifying policies and building an information security culture in order to ensure users avoid these threats through compliance and motivation.Ĭyberbullying is a form of bullying meted out online using digital devices and platforms. These results provide evidence on the importance of social factors on impacting avoidance motivation using the TTAT model. In addition, apathy and anticipated regret play a significant role in avoidance motivation. Furthermore, perceiving a mandated policy significantly impacts avoidance behavior. The results show that information security culture and information security awareness have an impact on users' motivation to avoid online blackmail threats through attitude and subjective norms. A quantitative approach based on an online survey was conducted to collect data from 547 employees and students from different industrial backgrounds. The study proposes a model constructed from technology threat avoidance theory (TTAT), the theory of planned behavior (TPB), and organizational control (OC). This study aims to examine the impact of information security regulation factors such as information security awareness, policies, and culture towards avoiding online blackmail threats. While the rate of blackmail is growing, there is a lack of literature on the subject. On the other hand, criminals find social media applications a rich place to attack through techniques like phishing, fraud, and blackmail.
Individuals and organizations rely on social media to share files and knowledge. Implications for future research, as well as the preventive role that youth-serving professionals can play, are discussed. Moreover, youth who threatened others with sextortion were more likely to have been victims themselves. Males and nonheterosexual youth were more likely to be targeted, and males were more likely to target others. Approximately 5% of students reported that they had been the victim of sextortion, while about 3% admitted to threatening others who had shared an image with them in confidence. The current study fills this gap by exploring the prevalence of sextortion behaviors among a nationally representative sample of 5,568 U.S. Despite increased public interest in this behavior, it has yet to be empirically examined among adolescents. Sextortion is the threatened dissemination of explicit, intimate, or embarrassing images of a sexual nature without consent, usually for the purpose of procuring additional images, sexual acts, money, or something else.
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