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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Social engineering"”.
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Improving social engineering resilience in enterprises
A Engenharia Social é um problema significativo para as empresas. Os cyber-criminosos continuam a desenvolver novos e sofisticados métodos para ludibriar indivíduos, levando-os a divulgar informações confidenciais ou a conceder acesso não autorizado a sistemas de infraestruturas. Estes ataques …
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Social engineering : a discourse in applied social science
[ page 92, 93, 94 missing] The following is a general overview of methodology. For a detailed examination in this area see Appendix III. The methodology of this work is based upon a modified Versteen principle. The present writer gathered 'evi- . 1 dence' and gave it form until it became clear …
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Using phishing to test social engineering awareness of financial employees
<p>"Social engineering is the biggest security threat to financial institutions because it exploits the weakest link in any security system: the human element. It is proposed here that combining specialized training on social engineering followed by repeated audit tests will be more effective at …
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Lord Cromer as Orientalist and social engineering in Egypt, 1882-1907
This thesis examines Lord Cromer's aspirations for developing the 'native mind’ in occupied Egypt, 1882 - 1907. From March 1877 to May 1879, and again from September 1879 until April 1880, Evelyn Baring 1 served as a financial adviser to the Khedival regime. After spending the spring of 1883 in …
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Developing an artefact for raising social engineering awareness among administrative staff
Social engineering is one of the biggest cyber-security threats faced by organisations. Cyber-criminals no longer primarily aim to exploit information systems, but rather target the 'low hanging fruit', which is the human element. End-users, primarily administrative staff, are at the highest risk …
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The Concept of Social Engineering and Cybercrime in the Digital Age
… practices which have grown over the years. Social engineering majorly depends on the normal human instincts for trusting in stealing personal as well as corporate information which can be implemented for committing the cybercrimes further. The attackers can use social engineering for …
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Social Engineering Effects on Instructors and Students in an Elearning Environment
… current global course offerings shows that less social means of distance education have been and still are viable educational alternatives to the traditional classroom. Furthermore, evaluations completed for this course as well as final program evaluations in MVCR show that a significant portion …
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A Framework to Detect the Susceptibility of Employees to Social Engineering Attacks
<p>Social engineering attacks (SE-attacks) in enterprises are hastily growing and are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Generally, SE-attacks involve the psychological manipulation of employees into revealing confidential and valuable company data to cybercriminals. The ramifications could bring …
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The Making of Public Morality: Politics, Social Engineering and the Development of a Safer Cigarette
There has been a well-documented and causal relationship between cigarette smoking and disease for over forty years, and at least an implicit concern over tobacco and health for decades, if not centuries prior; however, government policy on how to address tobacco as a public health issue has been …
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Utilising the concept of human-as-a-security-sensor for detecting semantic social engineering attacks
Social engineering is used as an umbrella term for a broad spectrum of computer exploitations that employ a variety of attack vectors and strategies to psychologically manipulate a user. Semantic attacks are the specific type of social engineering attacks that bypass technical defences by actively …
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The contradictions of empowerment promotion through social engineering. Mozambique’s Peace and the ‘7 million’ Initiative
The concept of ‘empowerment’ has been widely used among development practitioners since the early 1990s. This thesis aims to contribute to the literature on empowerment by developing an analytical framework that incorporates: (a) the dialectical nature of power, (b) multiple levels of analysis, and …
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Status of Security Awareness In Business Organizations And Colleges of Business: An Analyses Of Training And Education, Policies, And Social Engineering Testing
… training, IT-related policies, and the use of social engineering testing in business organizations. A second purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which colleges and universities are offering security awareness topics as part of a student's coursework or daily activities, …
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Vigilis: Leveraging Language Models for Fraud Detection in Mobile Communications and Financial Transactions
… systems, attackers increasingly rely on social engineering to achieve their goals. These attacks are difficult to detect and prevent with existing security measures. To address this, we propose Vigilis, a fraud-protected application that employs advanced language models to counter such …
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Using Deception to Enhance Security: A Taxonomy, Model, and Novel Uses
… in many successful computer breaches. Phishing, social engineering, and drive-by-downloads are some prime examples. The work in this dissertation is structured to enhance the security of computer systems by using means of deception and deceit.
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Cybersecurity for urban critical infrastructure
… cyberdefense tools I call Defensive Social Engineering, where victims can use social engineering against the hacker. Cyber negotiation involves using a negotiation framework to defend against attacks with steps urban critical infrastructure operators can take before, during and after …
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"In the Scale of Nature Each Seed is Important." Social Transformation, Food, and the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1942
… of Leningrad fostered an environment in which social relationships, which were pruned and altered during the 1930s, were reinvigorated and reinvented by Leningraders. By the outbreak of the war in the summer of 1941, Stalinist social engineering policies had eroded previously normalized social …
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Design and development of a machine learning-based framework for phishing website detection
Phishing is a social engineering cyber attack to steal personal information from users. Attackers solicit individuals to click phishing links by sending them emails or social media text messages with deceptive content. With the development and applications of machine learning technology, solutions …
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Enterprise Information Security Management Framework [EISMF]
… are caused by non-technical reasons such as social engineering, theft of computing device or portable hard drive, human behavior, and human error. This leads us to conclude that information security should not be viewed through technology perspective only. Instead, a more holistic approach is …
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