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Cerovic, Lazar. "Identifying Resilience Against Social Engineering Attacks." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-280131.

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Social engineering (SE) attacks are one of the most common cyber attacks and frauds, which causes a large economical destruction to individuals, companies and governments alike. The attacks are hard to protect from, since SE-attacks is based on exploiting human weaknesses. The goal of this study is to identify indicators of resilience against SE-attacks from individual computer space data, such as network settings, social media profiles, web browsing behaviour and more. This study is based on qualitative methods to collect information, analyse and evaluate data. Resilience is evaluated with mo

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Jansson, Kenny. "A model for cultivating resistance to social engineering attacks." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1588.

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The human being is commonly considered as being the weakest link in information security. Subsequently, as information is one of the most critical assets in an organization today, it is essential that the human element is considered in deployments of information security countermeasures. However, the human element is often neglected in this regard. Consequently, many criminals are now targeting the user directly to obtain sensitive information instead of spending days or even months trying to hack through systems. Some criminals are targeting users by utilizing various social engineering techn

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Rocha, Flores Waldo. "Shaping information security behaviors related to social engineering attacks." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Elkraftteknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-186113.

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Today, few companies would manage to continuously stay competitive without the proper utilization of information technology (IT). This has increased companies’ dependency of IT and created new threats that need to be addressed to mitigate risks to daily business operations. A large extent of these IT-related threats includes hackers attempting to gain unauthorized access to internal computer networks by exploiting vulnerabilities in the behaviors of employees. A common way to exploit human vulnerabilities is to deceive and manipulate employees through the use of social engineering. Although re

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Nohlberg, Marcus. "Securing Information Assets : Understanding, Measuring and Protecting against Social Engineering Attacks." Doctoral thesis, Kista : Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (together with KTH), Stockholm University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8379.

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Carlander-Reuterfelt, Gallo Matias. "Estimating human resilience to social engineering attacks through computer configuration data : A literature study on the state of social engineering vulnerabilities." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-277921.

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Social engineering as a method of attack is increasingly becoming a problem for both corporations and individuals. From identity theft to enormous financial losses, this form of attack is notorious for affecting complex structures, yet often being very simple in its form. Whereas for other forms of cyber- attack, tools like antivirus and antimalware are now industry standard, have proven to be reliable ways to keep safe private and confidential data, there is no such equivalent for social engineering attacks. There is not, as of this day, a trustworthy and precise way of estimating resilience

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Persson, Anders. "Exploring Phishing Attacks and Countermeasures." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för för interaktion och systemdesign, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3620.

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Online banking and e-commerce applications have good protection against attacks directed direct towards their computer systems. This, the attacker has considered and instead use “social engineering” attacks, such as phishing to gain access to the information inside [1] [15] [21]. Phishing is a growing problem that many different companies are trying to develop a working protection against. The number of new phishing-sites per month increased by 1363 % between January 2005 and October 2006, from 2560 to 37 444 attacks [3] [2]. Today there are several different antiphishing applications as well

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Nordgren, Daniella. "Phishing attacks targeting hospitals : A study over phishing knowledge at Blekingesjukhuset." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för datalogi och datorsystemteknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-16681.

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Context. Phishing emails is a type of computer attack targeting users and tries to trick them into giving out personal information, follow shady links or download malicious attachments. Phishing is often closely linked to ransomware, which is a type of attack that locks a users computer and asks for a ransom in order to give access back. Ransomware viruses often contaminate a computer through a phishing email. Hospitals are a growing target for these types of attacks because of their need of being able to access their system at all times. Objectives. This study intends to research the phishing

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Yelne, Samir. "Measures of User Interactions, Conversations, and Attacks in a Crowdsourced Platform Offering Emotional Support." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1482330888961028.

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Utakrit, Nattakant. "Security awareness by online banking users in Western Australian of phishing attacks." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2012. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/503.

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Phishing involves sending e-mails pretending to be from the legitimate financial institutions to recipients and asking for personal information such as username and password. It also redirects network traffic to malicious sites, deny network traffic to web services, and modify protection mechanisms in the targeted computer systems. Consequences of successful attacks can include identity and financial losses, and unauthorised information disclosure. The purpose of this study was to investigate the experiences of Western Australian bank users in using online banking. The study considered the rel

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Salem, Omran S. A. "An Integrated Intelligent Approach to Enhance the Security Control of IT Systems. A Proactive Approach to Security Control Using Artificial Fuzzy Logic to Strengthen the Authentication Process and Reduce the Risk of Phishing." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/14863.

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Hacking information systems is continuously on the increase. Social engineering attacks is performed by manipulating the weakest link in the security chain; people. Consequently, this type of attack has gained a higher rate of success than a technical attack. Based in Expert Systems, this study proposes a proactive and integrated Intelligent Social Engineering Security Model to mitigate the human risk and reduce the impact of social engineering attacks. Many computer users do not have enough security knowledge to be able to select a strong password for their authentication. The author has atte

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Forde, Edward Steven. "Security Strategies for Hosting Sensitive Information in the Commercial Cloud." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3604.

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IT experts often struggle to find strategies to secure data on the cloud. Although current security standards might provide cloud compliance, they fail to offer guarantees of security assurance. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the strategies used by IT security managers to host sensitive information in the commercial cloud. The study's population consisted of information security managers from a government agency in the eastern region of the United States. The routine active theory, developed by Cohen and Felson, was used as the conceptual framework for the study. The

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Lindgren, Felix, Oscar Thorslund, and Malin Torstensson. "Vem har högst säkerhetsmedvetenhet? En kvantitativ studie om Social Engineering-attacker och människor på Internet." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-56966.

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Ödman, Alina. "Moderna sociala manipuleringsangrepp : En kvalitativ intervjustudie med penetrationstestare." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-17303.

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Dagens samhälle präglas av den växande digitaliseringen. Information flödar på alla håll och kanter, den bearbetas, lagras och kommuniceras konstant. Nuförtiden kan systemen byggas ganska säkra, men så fort man sätter en människa bakom tangentbordet introducerar man en rejäl sårbarhet och äventyrar att vår information hamnar i fel händer. SE (social engineering, social manipulering) är konsten att nyttja social interaktion som ett medel oavsett om det kräver ett tekniskt system eller övertygelse för att få tillgång till känslig information. Detta är en kvalitativ intervjustudie som försöker sk

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Johansson, Stina. "Utvecklingen utav social manipulering : En kartläggande granskning av säkerhetsåtgärder 2008 kontra 2018." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-17218.

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Sociala manipulatörer besitter förmågan att använda social interaktion som medel för att övertyga en individ eller organisation till samtycke för en specifik förfrågan. Syftet är att uppnå ett mål i form av exempelvis ekonomisk vinning, obehörig åtkomst eller serviceavbrott. En social manipuleringsattack föranleds utav bakomliggande processer och innefattar en datorrelaterad enhet för antingen den sociala interaktionen, för övertalningen till samtycke eller för manipulatörens förfrågan. Syftet med arbetet var att kartlägga säkerhetsåtgärder mot sociala manipuleringsattacker och på så vis ge ut

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Tan, Enhua. "Spam Analysis and Detection for User Generated Content in Online Social Networks." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365520334.

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Ahmed, Olfet, and Nawar Saman. "Utvärdering av nätverkssäkerheten på J Bil AB." Thesis, KTH, Data- och elektroteknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-123403.

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Detta examensarbete är en utvärdering av nätverkssäkerheten hos J BiL AB, både på social och teknisk nivå. Företaget är beroende av säkra Internet-anslutningar för att nå externa tjänster och interna servrar lokaliserade på olika geografiska platser. Företaget har ingen IT-ansvarig som aktivt underhåller och övervakar nätverket, utan konsulterar ett externt dataföretag. Syftet med examensarbetet är att utvärdera säkerheten, upptäcka brister, ge förbättringsförslag och till viss del implementera lösningar. För att undersöka säkerheten har observationer och intervjuer med personalen gjorts och e

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(10994988), Minglu Li. "ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AFFECT SOCIAL ENGINEERING ATTACKS." Thesis, 2021.

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<div> <div> <div> <div> <p>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 to glean important personal information successfully. This article will analyze the relationship between the environment and social engineering attacks. This data consists of 516 people taking a survey. When it comes to

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Chen, Ming-Yen, and 陳銘言. "Analysis of User Behavioral Patterns of Social Engineering Email Attacks." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65478280711994716783.

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碩士<br>輔仁大學<br>資訊管理學系<br>97<br>Due to the serious social engineering email attacks, a domestic unit, through education and training, with simulated e-mail attacks and social engineering email attack drills, tries to make the organization's e-mail users to raise awareness in order to reduce the success rate of social engineering email attacks. With the evolution of society and the changes of hacker attacks, how to exercise and make the situation much closer to the actual practices of the attacks, this study simulated the real situation of attacks so that practices not only formality exercises. I

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Nien, Ching-hsuan, and 粘敬宣. "The Impact of Social Engineering Attacks on Competent Students in Information Management." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74955131683232313447.

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碩士<br>國立高雄第一科技大學<br>資訊管理研究所<br>100<br>In the age of information explosion, information security has been an issue to every information systems’ users. Generally, organizations would employ anti-attack software in defending hostile attacks by unknown hackers. However, hackers are not only capable of in coding techniques for hostile software, but have social skills such as oral communication, lure, counterfeit identity, greed, and punishment avoidance to defraud or to phish users'' personal and confidential information. This study focus on one of social engineering techniques termed phishing, in

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Chen, Wen Chu, and 朱震文. "The Association between Social Engineering attacks and Employee Background： An Example of C Petroleum Company." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/qd5he6.

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碩士<br>國立臺北科技大學<br>管理學院資訊與財金管理EMBA專班<br>104<br>Social engineering attacks (Social Engineering), is a use of human weakness, if employees lack of information security knowledge, make it easy for hackers bypass the computer security system protected to get business security by way of talk by phone, email, or counterfeit identity of person, results serious business disruption or loss. This research used data mining to find out the association rules from social engineer attacks and employee background. This study took a petroleum Company, C, as an example and collected drill result as the basis of

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Jansen, van Rensburg Shandre Kim. "The human in information security : an analysis of social engineering attacks in the greater Tshwane area of Gauteng, South Africa." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22646.

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Lin, Wei-kuo, and 林維國. "A Study of Government Agencies in Social Engineering Exercise Based on Attacks from Malicious Email Samples:The Case of A Agency." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07637738153212041969.

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碩士<br>國立中央大學<br>資訊管理學系碩士在職專班<br>100<br>In recent years, information and communication technology (ICT) has developed rapidly in Taiwan. However, information security incidents emerge endlessly. Observing the past incidents in general indicate that not only private enterprises are easy to be invaded by hackers, but government organizations are also victims of “targeted attack.” The main purpose of this kind of attacks is stealing sensitive data not by traditional ways of hacking but by attacking weaknesses in human nature combined with “social engineering.” It perfectly utilizes zero-day attack

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Van, Rensburg Kim Shandre Jansen. "The human element in information security : an analysis of social engineering attacks in the greater Tshwane area of Gauteng, South Africa." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22681.

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Lee, Chun-Cheng, and 李俊成. "Research on the Relationship between Personality Traits and Email Social Engineering Attacks－A Case Study of A Department of Ministry of National Defense." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/e4uv6q.

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碩士<br>萬能科技大學<br>資訊管理研究所在職專班<br>103<br>Well-developed network technology today. Let us explore the world faster and easier flow of information. However, security information and communications has fiasco. Especially in recent years to focus on e-mail social engineering hacker attacks. The emergence of such attacks is often difficult to deal with, and cause significant losses. So the information security industry in the relevant protection solutions, for the risk of "person" under attack assessment is an important work, but studies are rare. Our research questions the relationship between person

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Cullen, Andrea J., and Lorna Armitage. "The Social Engineering Attack Spiral (SEAS)." 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/10702.

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Yes<br>Cybercrime is on the increase and attacks are becoming ever more sophisticated. Organisations are investing huge sums of money and vast resources in trying to establish effective and timely countermeasures. This is still a game of catch up, where hackers have the upper hand and potential victims are trying to produce secure systems hardened against what feels like are inevitable future attacks. The focus so far has been on technology and not people and the amount of resource allocated to countermeasures and research into cyber security attacks follows the same trend. This paper

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Silva, Francisco José Albino Faria Castro e. "Classificação taxonómica dos ataques de Engenharia Social : caracterização da problemática da segurança de informação em Portugal relativamente à Engenharia Social." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/15690.

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Nos nossos dias, a informação é um recurso de vital importância. Com a necessidade de protegerem esse activo, as empresas implementam mecanismos com o objectivo de garantirem a integridade, confidencialidade e a disponibilidade da informação. Na dificuldade em ultrapassarem as barreiras tecnológicas de segurança, os ataques têm sido incrementalmente direccionados ao elemento humano – o utilizador, principalmente, pese embora técnicos possam também ser o alvo destes. Os atacantes, através da aplicação de técnicas e da exploração das vulnerabilidades do ser humano, entre as quais a ingenuidade,

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Fung, Jian-Jun, and 方建鈞. "A Study for Preventing Social Engineering Attack Types." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39776911866478968649.

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碩士<br>清雲科技大學<br>資訊管理所<br>100<br>In recent years, as Web 2.0 gains its popularity, the audio and multimedia effects on the web pages are more diverse, interactive, and abundant. Now, the social networks are hot, such as Facebook, Plurk, Twitter, Free Blog, Xuite, and Yam Blog, and MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, Skype, mobile phones, and emails have their tremendous influences which cannot be neglected. According to the statistic of ComScore company to the end of 2011, there were 794 million people visited Facebook monthly; each person spend 377 minutes, that is more than 6 hours, on social networks. Re

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Kao, Chi Sheng, and 高啟聖. "An Intrusion Event Initialized From The Email Social Engineering Attack." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15946594424458300721.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣科技大學<br>管理研究所<br>102<br>This study applies the writing method of Harvard case study. The study states the organization implement the security information system and execute the email social engineering test and training but users are still lack awareness of information security. Hackers use an email to invade the internal easily, the case how to solve this problem? How the case balance security and convenience when they manage security information system. This paper contains case content and manual for teachers. This study describe how the user execute the email in detail so the hac

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(9187496), Priyanka Tiwari. "EXPLORING PHISHING SUSCEPTIBILITY ATTRIBUTABLE TO AUTHORITY, URGENCY, RISK PERCEPTION AND HUMAN FACTORS." Thesis, 2020.

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<p>Security breaches nowadays are not limited to technological orientation. Research in the information security domain is gradually shifting towards human behavioral orientation toward breaches that target weaknesses arising from human behaviors (Workman et al., 2007). Currently, social engineering breaches are more effective than many technical attacks. In fact, the majority of cyber assaults have a social engineering component. Social Engineering is the art of manipulating human flaws towards a malicious objective (Breda et al., 2017). In the likely future, social engineering will be the mo

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Hung, Chia Lung, and 洪嘉隆. "A new attack model and defense suggestion using Social Engineering in instant messaging environment." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18084735904193783288.

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碩士<br>長庚大學<br>資訊管理學研究所<br>97<br>Social engineering is currently one of the most common network attacks. Attackers inveigle users to obtain unauthorized access to the resources due to the negligence of the users. Therefore, this phenomenon has become a vulnerability to the network security. As the growing dependence of users on instant messaging applications, potential threats would increase due to the attacks with social engineering. To prevent this attack, users have been educated not to open the files or check the hyperlinks before their sources have been identified. Consequently, the threat

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