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Measuring Awareness of Social Engineering in the Educational Sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

open access: yesInformation, 2021
Social engineering is one of the most inventive methods of gaining unauthorized access to information systems and obtaining sensitive information.
Majid H. Alsulami   +7 more
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MAZEPHISHING: THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AS CREDIBLE SOCIAL CONTEXT FOR SOCIAL ENGINEERING ATTACKS [PDF]

open access: yesTrames, 2021
The first months of the COVID-19 pandemic witnessed a surge of social engineering attacks. Although the pandemic is certainly not the first occurrence of socially disruptive circumstances that drive cybercrime, relevant academic scholarship has remained ...
Kristjan Kikerpill, Andra Siibak
doaj   +1 more source

Utilizing Convolutional Neural Networks and Word Embeddings for Early-Stage Recognition of Persuasion in Chat-Based Social Engineering Attacks

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2022
Social engineering is widely recognized as the key to successful cyber-attacks. Chat-based social engineering (CSE) attacks are attracting increasing attention because of recent changes in the digital work environment.
Nikolaos Tsinganos   +2 more
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A URL-Based Social Semantic Attacks Detection With Character-Aware Language Model

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2023
Social engineering attacks rely on human errors and behavioral choices. The semantic attack, a subcategory of social engineering attacks, utilizes behavioral or cosmetic deception vectors (e.g., attacker creates a malicious website that looks like and ...
May Almousa, Mohd Anwar
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SOCIAL ENGINEERING ATTACKS

open access: yes, 2023
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research, ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online), Research Publish Journals, Website: www.researchpublish ...
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Social Engineering: The Art of Attacks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The correct management of information systems security is often overlooked in technological measures and management efforts, and although there are now many tools to address security threats, the human aspect has been neglected. This paper discusses the human factors that could potentially lead to intrusions with social engineering.
Nelson Duarte   +2 more
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Social engineering in cybersecurity: a domain ontology and knowledge graph application examples

open access: yesCybersecurity, 2021
Social engineering has posed a serious threat to cyberspace security. To protect against social engineering attacks, a fundamental work is to know what constitutes social engineering.
Zuoguang Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Multivocal Literature Review on Growing Social Engineering Based Cyber-Attacks/Threats During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Prospective Solutions

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2021
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused a considerable and long-lasting social and economic impact on the world. Along with other potential challenges across different domains, it has brought numerous cybersecurity challenges that must be ...
Mohammad Hijji, Gulzar Alam
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Social Engineering Awareness Among Students and Lecturers

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2023
The massive technological progress and wide use of Information Technology have increased cyber security threats. Social engineering attacks are a common type of cyber security threat that faces everyone.
Raza M. Abdulla   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Study on the Psychology of Social Engineering-Based Cyberattacks and Existing Countermeasures

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
As cybersecurity strategies become more robust and challenging, cybercriminals are mutating cyberattacks to be more evasive. Recent studies have highlighted the use of social engineering by criminals to exploit the human factor in an organization’s ...
Murtaza Ahmed Siddiqi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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