2 papers
cs.CY2016
Breaching the Human Firewall: Social engineering in Phishing and Spear-Phishing Emails
Marcus Butavicius, Kathryn Parsons, Malcolm Pattinson +1
We examined the influence of three social engineering strategies on users' judgments of how safe it is to click on a link in an email. The three strategies examined were authority,…
cs.CY2016
Do Users Focus on the Correct Cues to Differentiate Between Phishing and Genuine Emails?
Kathryn Parsons, Marcus Butavicius, Malcolm Pattinson +3
This paper examines the cues that typically differentiate phishing emails from genuine emails. The research is conducted in two stages. In the first stage, we identify the cues tha…