...Aya Muhanad; Tourjana Islam Supti; Israa Abuelezz; Ala Yankouskaya; Khaled M. Khan; Mahmoud Barhamgi; Armstrong Nhlabatsi; Raian Ali Purpose This study aims to investigate whether an individual’s security attitude (SA) predicts susceptibility to persuasion in social engineering (SE) attempts...

...Keith S. Jones; McKenna K. Tornblad; Miriam E. Armstrong; Jinwoo Choi; Akbar Siami Namin Purpose This study aimed to investigate how honest participants perceived an attacker to be during shoulder surfing scenarios that varied in terms of which Principle of Persuasion in Social Engineering (PPSE...

...Keith S. Jones; Miriam E. Armstrong; McKenna K. Tornblad; Akbar Siami Namin Purpose This study aims to examine how social engineers use persuasion principles during vishing attacks. Design/methodology/approach In total, 86 examples of real-world vishing attacks were found in articles...

.... Frangopoulos et al. (2012) consider the psychological aspects of social engineering and relate them to persuasion techniques in their 2010 publication. In contrast to our work, their work is not based on a literature review of behaviour psychology, but based on the expertise of the authors. Moreover...

... discussing the development and user testing of two framework-inspired schemes: Persuasive Text Passwords and Cued Gaze-Points. Originality/value – This framework is intended to support the increasingly diverse ecosystem of authentication schemes by providing authentication researchers, professionals...