Social Engineering Attacks on Government Opponents: Target Perspectives
New methods of dissident surveillance employed by repressive nation-states increasingly involve socially engineering targets into unwitting cooperation (e.g., by convincing them to open a malicious attachment or link). While a fair amount is understood about the nature of these threat actors and the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2017-04-01
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Series: | Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/popets-2017-0022 |