Counteracting social engineering attacks

Affan Yasin; Rubia Fatima; Lin Liu; Jianmin Wanga; Raian Ali; Ziqi Wei

doi:10.1016/S1361-3723(21)00108-1

Counteracting social engineering attacks

Affan Yasin, Rubia Fatima, Lin Liu, Jianmin Wanga, Raian Ali, Ziqi Wei

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Abstract

Social engineers are very successful at exploiting human weaknesses, gathering information, communicating with people and creating creative storylines attacking people's psychological needs and weaknesses. And that is why people, who are among the weakest links in the information security chain, remain susceptible to social engineering attacks.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	15-19
Number of pages	5
Journal	Computer Fraud and Security
Volume	2021
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S1361-3723(21)00108-1
Publication status	Published - Oct 2021
Externally published	Yes

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