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Casagrande, Marco; Conti, Mauro; Fedeli, Monica; Losiouk, Eleonora – Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, 2023
Phishing is a common social engineering attack aimed to steal personal information. Universities attract phishing attacks because: (1) they store employees and students sensitive data; (2) they save confidential documents; and (3) their infrastructures often lack security. In this paper, we showcase a phishing assessment at the University of…
Descriptors: Fraternities, Computer Security, Information Security, Higher Education
Giovanni Bryan Jamal McKinney – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A high number of cyber breaches in organizations occur as a result of email phishing attempts. Research has shown that cyber education has a positive impact in user awareness of attack methods resulting in the reduction of compromises from email phishing attempts. However, in some instances, cyber education does not have a positive impact on the…
Descriptors: Employees, Computer Security, Information Security, Electronic Mail
Laurel Lynn Schneider – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As the digital world evolves, so does the risk of cyberattacks. Despite technology playing a vital role in nullifying these threats, the human factor is still regarded as one of the greatest weaknesses. End-user behavior is a major cause of information security breaches. This quantitative empirical study used a single-group, pre-post-test,…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Information Security, Correlation, Knowledge Level
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Finkel, Ed – Community College Journal, 2019
Community colleges aren't quite as high on the list of hackers and scammers as institutions like banks, hospitals and four-year research universities, yet the institutional and personal data stored on their servers and in the online cloud can be valuable, so they need to lock down their data like any other entity. This requires a combination of…
Descriptors: Information Security, Computer Security, Campuses, Community Colleges
Estes, Aaron – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Email attacks comprise an overwhelming majority of the daily attacks on modern enterprise. "Phishing" is the leading attack vector for the world's most dangerous threats such as the so-called, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), and hacktivist groups such as Anonymous and LulzSec. The leading mitigation strategy is a combination of user…
Descriptors: Risk, Electronic Mail, Computer Security, Users (Information)
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
An e-mail scam has hit tens of thousands of users at dozens of colleges over the past few weeks, leaving network administrators scrambling to respond before campus computer accounts are taken over by spammers. Students, professors, and staff members at the affected colleges received e-mail messages that purported to come from the colleges' help…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Computer Security, Colleges, Crime
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Goldsborough, Reid – Teacher Librarian, 2005
Many people still have not heard about the many ways identity theft via bogus e-mail links, or "phishing," is escalating, with criminals becoming ever more brazen and sophisticated in their online schemes to trick people into revealing their personal information. The tricksters are getting trickier. One of the newest scares involves…
Descriptors: Internet, Deception, Computer Security, Crime
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Brooks, Rochelle – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2008
The ethical development of information systems is but one of those sensitive scenarios associated with computer technology that has a tremendous impact on individuals and social life. The significance of these issues of concern cannot be overstated. However, since computer ethics is meant to be everybody's responsibility, the result can often be…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Ethics, Social Responsibility, Computer Security