Social engineering (security)

Known as: Social engineering, Social hacker, Pretexts 
Social engineering, in the context of information security, refers to psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging… (More)
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2017
2017
Hacking the Human : Social Engineering Techniques and Security Countermeasures
Provides understanding to the risk that organization's face from social engineering Offers examples, research and practical… (More)
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2016
2016
A Serious Game for Eliciting Social Engineering Security Requirements
Social engineering is the acquisition of information about computer systems by methods that deeply include nontechnical means… (More)
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2016
Review
2016
A literature survey on social engineering attacks: Phishing attack
Phishing is a network type attack where the attacker creates the fake of an existing webpage to fool an online user into elicit… (More)
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2014
2014
Social engineering attack framework
The field of information security is a fast growing discipline. Even though the effectiveness of security measures to protect… (More)
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Reverse Social Engineering Attacks in Online Social Networks
Social networks are some of the largest and fastest growing online services today. Facebook, for example, has been ranked as the… (More)
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2011
Highly Cited
2011
The social dimension of sustainable development: Defining urban social sustainability
Sustainable development is a widely used term, which has been increasingly infl uential on UK planning, housing and urban policy… (More)
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2010
Highly Cited
2010
Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking
social engineering the art of human hacking. Book lovers, when you need a new book to read, find the book here. Never worry not… (More)
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Beyond the ABC: Climate Change Policy and Theories of Social Change
In this short and deliberately provocative paper I reflect on what seems to be a yawning gulf between the potential contribution… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Greed and grievance in civil war
We investigate the causes of civil war, using a new data set of wars during 1960-99. Rebellion may be explained by atypically… (More)
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1995
1995
Information Security Technology? Don't Rely on It. A Case Study in Social Engineering
Many companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to ensure corporate computer security. The security protects company… (More)
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