You Are Probably Not the Weakest Link: Towards Practical Prediction of Susceptibility to Semantic Social Engineering Attacks

You Are Probably Not the Weakest Link: Towards Practical Prediction of Susceptibility to Semantic Social Engineering Attacks

Semantic social engineering attacks are a pervasive threat to computer and communication systems. By employing deception rather than by exploiting technical vulnerabilities, spear-phishing, obfuscated URLs, drive-by downloads, spoofed websites, scareware, and other attacks are able to circumvent tra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ryan Heartfield, George Loukas, Diane Gan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2016-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
Subjects:
Security
cyber crime
social engineering
semantic attacks
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7587431/

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