Aug 16, 2021 | Research library
This paper aims to improve the employees’ cyber security awareness by developing an interactive video game, a cyber shield game, that includes various embedded threat scenarios. The proposed game consists of four levels. The password complexity level educates players...
Aug 9, 2021 | Research library
This study aims to examine the effect of cybersecurity threat and efficacy upon click-through, response to a phishing attack: persuasion and protection motivation in an organizational context. In a simulated field trial conducted in a financial institute, via PhishMe,...
Aug 6, 2021 | Research library
This study is an attempt to check the level of awareness of social engineering attacks among professionals who are working online. A survey of employees, who are working in Delhi NCR in different organizations and industries, was conducted. The results of the survey...
Aug 6, 2021 | Research library
This study designed, developed, and empirically tested a Pause and Think (PAT) mobile app that presented a user with a warning dialog and either a countdown or count-up timer whenever an email with a link was opened. The user was not able to interact with the email...
Aug 6, 2021 | Research library
Targeted phishing emails are a major cyber threat on the Internet today and are insufficiently addressed by current defences. In this paper, we leverage industrial-scale datasets from Sophos cloud email security service, which defends tens of millions of customer...
Aug 6, 2021 | Research library
This research evaluated the Internet users’ proneness to fall prey to five most common types of social engineering attacks which are domain spoofing, email spoofing, search engine phishing, SMS phishing, and social media phishing. 350 volunteer participants...