On the anatomy of social engineering attacks
The aim of this study was to explore the extent to which persuasion principles are used in successful social engineering attacks. Seventy-four scenarios were ex...
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Telephone-based social engineering attacks
The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an information campaign to counter a social engineering attack via the telephone. Four different...
Regression nodes
In the field of security, attack trees are often used to assess security vulnerabilities probabilistically in relation to multi-step attacks. The nodes are usua...
The persuasion and awareness experiment
The aim of the current study is to explore to what extent an intervention reduces the effects of social engineering (e.g., the obtaining of access via persuasio...