Email is of critical importance as a communication channel for both business and personal
matters. Unfortunately, it is also often exploited for phishing attacks. To defend against such …

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 …

Lack of personalisation and poor mechanics (eg, grammar, spelling and punctuation) are
commonly cited as cues of deception that people can use to identify phishing emails …

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 …

Phishing attacks are still seen as a significant threat to cyber security, and large parts of the
industry rely on anti-phishing simulations to minimize the risk imposed by such attacks. This …

Phishing e-mail threats are increasing in sophistication. Technical measures alone do not
fully prevent users from falling for them and common e-mail interfaces provide little support …

This study was designed to examine the roles of cue utilization, phishing features and time
pressure in the detection of phishing emails. During two experiments, participants completed …

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 …

As organizations continue to invest in phishing awareness training programs, many chief
information security officers (CISOs) are concerned when their training exercise click rates …

Phishing is recognized as a serious threat to organizations and individuals. While there
have been significant technical advances in blocking phishing attacks, end-users remain the …