Security awareness and education programmes are rolled out in more and more
organisations. However, their effectiveness over time and, correspondingly, appropriate …

Phishing emails often disguise a link's actual URL. Thus, common anti-phishing advice is to
check a link's URL before clicking, but email clients do not support this well. Automated …

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) unambiguously specify host identity on the web. URLs
are syntactically complex, and although software can accurately parse identity from URLs …

The use of security awareness and education pro-grammes is very common in
organisations. But how effective are they over time? Some initial research on this question …

Confidence tricksters have always defrauded the unwary. The computer era has merely
extended their range and made it possible for them to target anyone in the world who has an …

Despite technical advances in anti-phishing protection, in many cases the detection of
phishing URLs largely depends on users manually inspecting the links found in suspicious …

The current design of email authentication mechanisms has made it challenging for email
providers to establish the authenticity of email messages with complicated provenance, such …

Organisations closed their offices and began working from home online to prevent the
spread of the COVID-19 virus. This shift in work culture coincided with increased online use …

Phishing is currently one of the biggest threats in cybersecurity for both the business and the
private contexts. A large percentage of phishing attacks are blocked by automated technical …

Two popular approaches for helping consumers avoid phishing threats are phishing
awareness videos and tools supporting users in identifying phishing emails. Awareness …