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    A Study on Cybersecurity Awareness Among Students in Yobe State University, Nigeria
    (Research Trend, 2020-07-18) Abdullahi, Adamu Garba; Maheyzah Md. Siraj; Siti Hajar Othman; M.A. Musa
    The emergence of the internet and also the use of various online applications and the exposure to the social platforms that are evolving day by day have positioned students to online risk. Online fraud, cyber-bully, phishing are among those risks students are exposed to in their daily activities. To find a solution to that, cybersecurity awareness can prepare them to protect themself against such risk. This research aims to investigate the students’ awareness of basic knowledge of cybersecurity. A quantitative approach was used for data collection using a set of designed questionnaires, this method was used to investigate the students’ cybersecurity knowledge and observe their behavior toward using the internet, from the survey a total of 201 Computer Science students in the Department of Computer Science at Yobe State University, Nigeria participated in the study. The research has encountered moderate responses from the students as all universities are close at this period due to the COVID 19 pandemic, only students living in urban were able to reach out in the study. The result obtained from the experiment were analyzed and it shows the University students' cybersecurity awareness is at a satisfactory level and more than average of the students are not well aware of how to protect their data. The research contribution is, there is no active cybersecurity awareness program in place, and also females’ students are more likely to be the victim of cyber-attack. Besides that, the survey alsoindicated a high enthusiasm for students to learn more about cybersecurity.
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    An assessment of cybersecurity awareness level among Northeastern University students in Nigeria
    (International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2022-02-01) Abdullahi, Adamu Garba; Maheyzah Muhamad Siraj; Siti Hajar Othman
    The world economy today has adopted the internet as a medium of transactions, this has made many organizations use the internet for their daily activities. With this, there is an urgent need to have knowledge in cybersecurity and also how to defend critical assets. The objective of this paper is to identify the level of cybersecurity awareness of students in Northeastern Nigeria. A quantitative approach was used for data collection and cyberbully, personal information, internet banking, internet addiction, and Self-protection were the items ask for cybersecurity awareness level identification. Descriptive analysis was performed for initial result findings using SPSS and OriginPro for graphical design. the preliminary result shows of the students have some basic knowledge of cybersecurity in an item like internet banking, while other items like cyberbully, self-protection and, internet addiction result show moderate awareness, the students' participation based on gender, males constitute 77.1% i.e. (N=340) and females constitute 22.9% i.e. (N=101). Future research would concentrate on designing awareness programs that would increase the level of their awareness especially the students in the Northeastern part of Nigeria.
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    Cybersecurity Awareness of University Students in Nigeria
    (Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education, 2021-05-21) Abdullahi, Adamu Garba; Maheyzah Muhamad Sirajb,; Siti Hajar Othman; Waleed A. Zogaan
    Today, the internet has become the backbone to empower and facilitate our daily activities, including educational, financial, and social activities. Nigeria is among the top list of countries that suffered economically from cybercriminals. Many researchers have turned their attention to identifying the cybersecurity awareness of students but limited to the North-eastern universities in Nigeria. University students are prime targets of cyberattacks as research shows frequent access to the internet compared to normal users. The main aim of this paper is to identify the current cybersecurity awareness on the following items (Cyberbully, Personal Information, Internet Banking, Internet Addiction, and Self-protection) of students at the North-eastern universities. The quantitative method was adopted for data collection through a questionnaire that was administered to randomly selected students. The designed questionnaire covers the above items, ), based on the holistic result analysis using OrignPro Software the majority of result shows the students have some basic knowledge of cybersecurity in an item like personal information, internet banking, while other items like cyberbully, self-protection and, internet addiction result show moderate awareness. Subsequently, based on the in-depth analysis performed with a control variable “Major Discipline” as specialization, surprisingly, it indicates that engineering, humanity, and law faculties tend to have more awareness of cybersecurity. This survey provides a roadmap toward the design of effective cybersecurity awareness programs and implementation guidelines.