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 …

Today, the traditional approach used to conduct phishing attacks through email and spoofed
websites has evolved to include social network sites (SNSs). This is because phishers are …

Prior studies have shown that the behaviours and attitudes of Internet users influence the
likelihood of being victimised by phishing attacks. Many scammers design a step-by-step …

Internet-based social engineering (SE) attacks are a major cyber threat. These attacks often
serve as the first step in a sophisticated sequence of attacks that target, among other things …

Social engineering is a growing source of information security concern. Exploits appear to
evolve, with increasing levels of sophistication, in order to target multiple victims. Despite …

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 …

By studying the psychological profile of cyberscam victims, we may be able to develop more
effective methods to reduce the rates of this type of cybercrime substantially. This paper …

The popularity of social networking sites has attracted billions of users to engage and share
their information on these networks. The vast amount of circulating data and information …

Frequent and habitual engagement with social media can reinforce certain activities such as
sharing, clicking hyperlinks, and liking, which may be performed with insufficient cognition …

Phishing requires humans to fall for impersonated sources. Sender authenticity can often be
inferred from e-mail header information commonly displayed by e-mail clients, such as …