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People pay attention to your security warnings on their computers or mobile devices, you need to make them pop up at better times.

New study from Brigham young university (BYU) team up with google chrome engineers finds the status quo of warning messages appearing accident. 90 percent of users disregarding them, while typing, watching a video, uploading files, etc.

BYU information systems professor Anthony Vance said, Software developers clear these messages without any regard to what the user is doing. They interrupt us constantly and our research shows there's a high penalty that comes by presenting these messages at random times, and also found that the brain can’t handle multitasking very well.

Waiting to display a warning to when people are not busy doing something else increases their security behavior substantially.

People pay the most attention to security messages when they pop up in lower dual task time, such as after watching a video, waiting for a page to load, interacting with a website. These security warnings to appear when a person is more likely ready to respond isn't current practice in the software industry.

Researchers show empirically the effects of dual task interference during computer security tasks. In addition to showing what this multitasking does to user behavior, the researchers found what it does to the brain.

Researchers had participant’s complete computer tasks while an fMRI scanner measured their brain activity. The experiment showed neural activity was substantially reduced when security messages interrupted a task, as compared to when a user responded to the security message itself.

BYU researchers used the functional MRI data as they collaborated with a team of Google Chrome security engineers to identify better times to display security messages during the browsing experience.