A taxonomy for social engineering attacks via personal devices

Title: A taxonomy for social engineering attacks via personal devices
Creator: Aldawood, Hussain; Skinner, Geoffrey
Relation: International Journal of Computer Applications Vol. 178, Issue 50, p. 19-26
Relation: https://www.ijcaonline.org/archives/volume178/number50/30891-2019919411
Publisher: Foundation of Computer Science
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2019
Description: Social engineering attacks are a major threat to organizations and individuals as digitization and connectivity through the internet increase. This study aims to review scholarly research analyzing the topic of social engineering and further chart the evolution of the threat. The review identifies methods of such attacks on various platforms and devices and discusses motivations behind social engineering attacks. Finally, the paper analyzes the nature and impact of social engineering attacks and presents a taxonomy on socially engineered attacks by analyzing their anatomy.
Subject: cyber security; information security; social engineering; social engineering attacks; social engineering taxonomy; security attack taxonomy
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1451922
Identifier: uon:44307
Identifier: ISSN:0975-8887
Language: eng
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