Human factors in phishing attacks: a systematic literature review

G Desolda, LS Ferro, A Marrella, T Catarci… - ACM Computing …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information by disguising oneself as a
trustworthy entity in digital communication. It is a type of cyber attack often successful …

Cognition in social engineering empirical research: a systematic literature review

P Burda, L Allodi, N Zannone - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The interdisciplinarity of the Social Engineering (SE) domain creates crucial challenges for
the development and advancement of empirical SE research, making it particularly difficult to …

An investigation of phishing awareness and education over time: When and how to best remind users

B Reinheimer, L Aldag, P Mayer, M Mossano… - … Symposium on Usable …, 2020 - usenix.org
Security awareness and education programmes are rolled out in more and more
organisations. However, their effectiveness over time and, correspondingly, appropriate …

[HTML][HTML] Baiting the hook: factors impacting susceptibility to phishing attacks

C Iuga, JRC Nurse, A Erola - Human-centric Computing and Information …, 2016 - Springer
Over the last decade, substantial progress has been made in understanding and mitigating
phishing attacks. Nonetheless, the percentage of successful attacks is still on the rise. In this …

{SoK}: Still Plenty of Phish in the Sea—A Taxonomy of {User-Oriented} Phishing Interventions and Avenues for Future Research

A Franz, V Zimmermann, G Albrecht, K Hartwig… - … Symposium on Usable …, 2021 - usenix.org
Phishing is a prevalent cyber threat, targeting individuals and organizations alike. Previous
approaches on anti-phishing measures have started to recognize the role of the user, who …

Gamification techniques for raising cyber security awareness

S Scholefield, LA Shepherd - HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust: First …, 2019 - Springer
Due to the prevalence of online services in modern society, such as internet banking and
social media, it is important for users to have an understanding of basic security measures in …

I don't need an expert! making url phishing features human comprehensible

K Althobaiti, N Meng, K Vaniea - … of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Judging the safety of a URL is something that even security experts struggle to do accurately
without additional information. In this work, we aim to make experts' tools accessible to non …

Avoiding the hook: influential factors of phishing awareness training on click-rates and a data-driven approach to predict email difficulty perception

T Sutter, AS Bozkir, B Gehring, P Berlich - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Phishing attacks are still seen as a significant threat to cyber security, and large parts of the
industry rely on anti-phishing simulations to minimize the risk imposed by such attacks. This …

User experiences of torpedo: Tooltip-powered phishing email detection

M Volkamer, K Renaud, B Reinheimer, A Kunz - Computers & Security, 2017 - Elsevier
We propose a concept called TORPEDO to improve phish detection by providing just-in-time
and just-in-place trustworthy tooltips. These help people to identify phish links embedded in …

Chamberbreaker: Mitigating the echo chamber effect and supporting information hygiene through a gamified inoculation system

Y Jeon, B Kim, A Xiong, D Lee, K Han - … of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Because of the increasingly negative impacts of the echo chamber effect, such as the
dissemination of fake news and political polarization occurring in social networking services …