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Enhanced social engineering framework mitigating against social engineering attacks in higher education

SECURITY AND PRIVACY, 2022
AbstractThe purpose of this paper was to develop and validate an enhanced social engineering framework to mitigate against social engineering attacks. The study formulated a theoretical framework which was informed by the strengths and weaknesses of existing social engineering frameworks, the framework was also guided by the Dhillon's balanced control ...
Kanos Matyokurehwa, Norman Rudhumbu, Cross Gombiro, Colletor Chipfumbu‐Kangara   +3 more
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ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AFFECT SOCIAL ENGINEERING ATTACKS

2021
Social engineering attacks can have serious consequences when it comes to information security. A social engineering attack aims at sensitive personal information by using personality weaknesses and using manipulation techniques. Because the user is often seen as the weakest link, techniques like phishing, baiting, and vishing, and deception are used ...
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Social Engineering Attack Detection Model: SEADMv2

2015 International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW), 2015
Information security is a fast-growing discipline, and therefore the effectiveness of security measures to protect sensitive information needs to be increased. Since people are generally susceptible to manipulation, humans often prove to be the weak link in the security chain.
Francois Mouton, Louise Leenen, H.S. Venter   +2 more
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Protection Against Semantic Social Engineering Attacks

2018
Phishing, drive-by downloads, file and multimedia masquerading, domain typosquatting, malvertising and other semantic social engineering attacks aim to deceive the user rather than exploit a technical flaw to breach a system’s security. We start with a chronological overview to illustrate the growing prevalence of such attacks from their early ...
Ryan Heartfield, George Loukas
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CLASSIFICATION OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING METHODS AND TYPES OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING ATTACKS

Relações Internacionais no Mundo Atual, 2023
Background: Social engineering is an acute threat to modern enterprises. In large companies, dynamic information flows and changes in management processes increase the number of attack points for social engineers, which entails possible unwanted information outflows.
Bersei, Diana, Dolgopolov, Kirill, Amvrosova, Olga, Zhukova, Tatyana, Sherbakova, Lyudmila   +4 more
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Social Engineering Attacks: How to Prevent

Journal of Digital Science
We present the pervasive threat of social engineering attacks in cyber security. The article explores interdisciplinary perspectives, such as psychology and information technology discipline, the social engineering attack types, sequence and traits. Through an in-depth analysis of social engineering attacks, this paper aims to raise awareness about the
Lilit Manukyan, Mariam Gevorgyan
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Social Engineering Attacks

2022
Yuvraj Singh Saini, Lucky Sharma, Pronika Chawla, Sanidhya Parashar   +3 more
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Social Engineering Attacks Detection Approach

2023 13th International Conference on Dependable Systems, Services and Technologies (DESSERT), 2023
Sergii Lysenko, Volodymyr Vorobiov, Oleksandr Bokhonko, Piotr Gaj, Oleg Savenko, Jacek Wołoszyn   +5 more
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Guarding Corporate Data from Social Engineering Attacks

2009
The threat of social engineering attacks is prevalent in today’s society. Even with the pervasiveness of mass media’s coverage of hackers and security intrusions, the general population is not aware of the possible damage that could occur should they be subjected to a social engineering attack.
Christopher M. Botelho, Joseph A. Cazier
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Social determinants of health and US cancer screening interventions: A systematic review

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2023
Ariella R Korn
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