Journal Entry Week 11 - Wk starting March 23rd

Making last minute changes to the survey, also finished making duplicates of the webpage, so that there are 4 surveys in total, which means the results are more reliable. There are 4 since I've used latin square to shuffle the order of the sites so that the results will be from people who haven't all viewed the sites in the same order.

Creating a powerpoint presentation for the tech demo.

Journal Entry Week 10 - Wk starting March 16th

This week I made additional changes to the survey, adding a computer experience questionnaire which is based on the paper "The Computer Understanding and Experience Scale: a self-report measure of computer experience" by Denise Potoskya and Philip Bobkob.

In addition the images now have directions underneath the title to tell people what they are asked to do.

At the end of the questionnaire about the images I have added an additional page asking generic qustions such as whether they have heard of norsemantravel.com before, or whether they use booking sites. There is also a comment section where they can write what makes a website trustworthy in their opinion. After that page is the debrief page where I have explained the purpose of this study.

Journal Entry Week 9 - Wk starting March 9th

Now that the images are ready for putting into the survey, it's time to create the survey itself. Option one was creating it all from nothing, building the website and building the SQL database in the background. Option two was to use a survey application, which was the option I chose to go for. My survey is created using Google Forms, which is in turn embed into the main survey website.

This is the first survey site: http://teele.co.tkwcy.ee/hons1/

Thus far I have finished the disclaimer page, which requires the user to acknowledge that they are aware of what they are being asked to do and there is a designated button which says "I agree" without which they cannot proceed.

After the disclaimer page the user is directed to page 1, which asks them for their age group, their gender and whether they are a student or not.

Afterwards the user will go through each picture and provide answers to the questions asked at the bottom, such as how trustworthy they view the website, how attractive they view it and whether they would be likely to use the site to book a holiday.

Journal Entry Week 8 - Wk starting March 2nd

Decided to go for "http://norsemantravel.com/" as the basis of the phishing site.
This is the original site

I used WinHTTrack to mirror the website, then found where all the individual elements were being kept and saved originals of them. I decided to change three different elements which were .png files, the upper left logo, the main navigation bar and "Read more" button at the bottom. In addition I decided to change the box which contains the "Read more" button, this was changed through css.

In the end, 4 different versions of the site were made: two had cold colours (blue) and two had warm colours (orange/red), also the words "short breaks" were replaced by either "warm getaways" or "cool adventures", adding the words warm and cold (cool).

These are the ready made results:

cold-cold

cold-warm

warm-warm

warm-cold

Journal Entry Week 7 - Wk starting Feb 23rd

Found 4 options for the phishing site:
http://norsemantravel.com/
http://www.malvernworldtravel.co.uk/
http://www.wtcfm.com/
http://www.kyletravel.co.uk/

They are all based in the UK since the phishing site that will be created using any of these as a template will have to be in English. Did have a look a Estonian sites as well, but didn't find any that would have been suitable for the project.

At the moment it seems the biggest issue would be making the websites in the survey appear in a random order.

Journal Entry Week 6 - Wk starting Feb 16th

No further work has been carried out yet. Trying to find more sources to gather information for the literature review. Wanting the literature review to sum up the general idea behind phishing, the different techniques used, and also to look at the psychological use of warm and cold, also the use of colours. Hopefully the survey will be successful and will show some benefits to manipulating with the words and colours.

Journal Entry Week 5 - Wk starting Feb 9th

The aim of this week was to create the phishing sites, four in total. The site will be the same, but with different colours and words. It was difficult trying to find something to use as a basis; the other option would be to create something totally new, but I believe it would be more beneficial to choose a site that already exists and to modify it.

Journal Entry Week 4 - Wk starting Feb 2nd

Looking at the survey site, fixing little bits and pieces such as the first page which needs to be a disclaimer page which is needed to make sure the people carrying out the survey are aware that this will be anonymous and they are allowed to leave when they wish and asking them to accept the terms, if they don't wish to accept then they will be directed to a another page, such as Google. The purpose of this is to make sure that they are only allowed to carry out the survey after they have agreed to do so.

Journal Entry Week 3 - Wk starting Jan 26th

Decided to make a time plan for the rest of the semester to map out what needs to be done when to manage time properly. The aim is to get the survey sites set up fast in order to get the data needed for the analysis and to determine whether the project is even feasible.

Journal Entry Week 2 - Wk starting Jan 19th

Still no practical work has been carried out. Looking at different templates to use for the dissertation itself. Mapping out how the table of contents would look like and from there moving onto the finer detail. General layout of the paper has been finished.

Journal Entry Week 1 - Wk starting Jan 12th

No work was carried out during the holidays. Back in Uni now and starting to think about how to proceed with the project. Currently unsure of which site to choose as the phishing site, one version of the University's page has been made but this will not be used for the survey itself due to the fact that the purpose of the project is to find out whether the chosen criteria would have any effect on how people interpret the site as trustworthy and that will require a page where one would have to log in. I believe it a bank website or something alike Paypal would be more suited for the project.