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 …

Social engineering is an attack on information security for accessing systems or networks.
Social engineering attacks occur when victims do not recognize methods, models, and …

Social engineering costs organizations billions of dollars. It exploits the weakest link of
information systems security, the users. It is well-documented in literature that users continue …

The current era of contactless operations and transactions, the use of Quick Response or
QR codes has become more important than before for delivering information to a large …

1 Department of Computer Science and Informatics, University of Energy and Natural
Resources, Sunyani, Ghana 2 Department of Mathematics and ICT, St. John Boscos College …

Abstract Information-based cyberattacks shape public opinions, provoke discord, polarize
individuals, erode trust, and create social division. Adolescent technology users rely heavily …

In the face of increasingly advanced cyber threats employing different social engineering
methods, there is a crucial need to comprehend how individuals respond to deceptive …

This paper presents a three-pillared strategy for the prevention of phishing attacks. Phishing
is a deceptive method of creating and distributing emails and/or websites that attempt to fool …

The objective of this qualitative Delphi study was to examine the various information security
awareness techniques related to social engineering attacks that organizations employ. Data …

Despite decades of research, the information security literature built upon the grounded
theories of protection motivation and general deterrence continues to produce inconsistent …