UTA researcher shows computer users are overconfident when dealing with junk emails

Phishing emailsUTA researchers show in a new study that people’s confidence actually exceeds what they can achieve when judging phishing attacks in the business world. Jingguo Wang, a UTA associate professor in the College of Business’ Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, collaborated with Yuan Li of Missouri’s Columbia College and Raghav Rao of the State University of New York, Buffalo, on the study titled: Overconfidence in Phishing Email Detection, recently published in Journal of the Association for Information Systems