Got Phished
Channel: Vulnerable By Design
Date: 07/11/2021

You’ve won a prize! Or have you? This week we look at recent developments in phishing research. Think: Do your personal values make you more phishable? And do phishers always run a profit?

Episode links:

* ‘The Effects of Personal Values and Message Values on Vulnerability to Phishing’, by Maayan Sayag, Maya Gross, Avner Caspi, Zohar Weinstein, and Shir Etgar. Personality and Individual Differences 186 (1 February 2022): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111335
* ‘Phishing Happens Beyond Technology: The Effects of Human Behaviors and Demographics on Each Step of a Phishing Process’, by Hossein Abroshan, Jan Devos, Geert Poels, and Eric Laermans. IEEE Access 9 (2021), pp. 44928–49: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3066383
* ‘How Phishers Exploit the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Content Analysis of COVID-19 Themed Phishing Emails’, by Naci Akdemir and Serkan Yenal. SAGE Open 11, no. 3 (1 July 2021), pp. 1–14: https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211031879
*  ‘Phishing: An Economic Analysis of Cybercrime Perpetrators’, by Brigitte Werners, Christian Konradt, and Andreas Schilling. Computers & Security 58 (1 May 2016), pp. 39–46: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2015.12.001
* ‘Don’t Click: Towards an Effective Anti-Phishing Training. A Comparative Literature Review’, by Bernhard Tellenbach. Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences 10, no. 33 (2020): https://core.ac.uk/reader/344929613