Phishing and spear phishing are typical examples of masquerade attacks since trust is built
up through impersonation for the attack to succeed. Given the prevalence of these attacks …

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 …

Social engineering attacks in the form of phishing emails represent one of the biggest risks
to cybersecurity. There is a lack of research on how the common elements of phishing …

Attacks exploiting the innate and the acquired vulnerabilities of human users have posed
severe threats to cybersecurity. This work proposes ADVERT, a human-technical solution …

Phishing attacks have been persistent for more than two decades despite mitigation efforts
from academia and industry. We believe that users fall victim to attacks not only because of …

Phishing is one of the most important security threats in modern information systems causing
different levels of damages to end-users and service providers such as financial and …

The prevalence and effectiveness of phishing attacks, despite the presence of a vast array of
technical defences, are due largely to the fact that attackers are ruthlessly targeting what is …

Human cognitive modeling techniques and related software tools have been widely used by
researchers and practitioners to evaluate the effectiveness of user interface (UI) designs and …

As of 2021, it has been reported that around 90% of data breaches occur on account of
phishing, while about 83% of organizations experienced phishing attacks [1]. Phishing can …

Human-computer interaction and computer-mediated behavioral psychology research
studies often rely on capturing user interaction data to characterize online behaviors. IRB …