Social engineering has posed a serious security threat to infrastructure, user, data and
operations of cyberspace. Nevertheless, there are many conceptual deficiencies (such as …

In recent years, we observed an increase in cyber threats, especially social engineering
attacks. By social engineering, we mean a set of techniques and tools to collect information …

Social engineering attacks are phenomena that are equally applicable to both the physical
world and cyberspace. These attacks in the physical world have been studied for a much …

ABSTRACT Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are a prime concern in the formulation and
implementation of national cybersecurity policies. These threats often also involve complex …

Ensuring the secure transmission of sensitive messages over unsecured networks has been
a staggering problem in the face of scientists and engineers in recent times. This is …

State-sponsored" bad actors" increasingly weaponize social media platforms to launch
cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns during elections. Social media companies, due …

One of the aims of this paper is to study how to define meshes, a kind of wireframe semantic
models hidden behind the variety of external forms of manifestation of information processes …