Loukas, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3559-5182, Patrikakis, Charalampos Z. and Wilbanks, Linda R. (2020) Digital deception: Cyber fraud and online misinformation. IT Professional, 22 (2). pp. 19-20. ISSN 1520-9202 (Print), 1941-045X (Online) (doi:10.1109/MITP.2020.2980090)

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Abstract

PHISHING, USER ACCOUNT takeovers, and other computing-related threats have made it easy for criminals to deceive people for financial and other gain. It is now considered standard practice for an advanced cyberattack, even a highly technical one, to start in a nontechnical manner: a spearphishing email deceiving an organization’s employees into providing their credentials, a watering hole website infecting their computer, and so on. It is the human that is the initial target, as well as the first line of defense. At the same time, social media has become a dominant, direct, and highly effective form of news generation and sharing at a global scale, in a manner that influences and enhances, but also challenges and often antagonizes, traditional media corporations.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Digital deception, misinformation, phishing
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science > Internet of Things and Security Research Centre (ISEC) Faculty of Engineering & Science > School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences (CMS) Faculty of Engineering & Science
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2022 13:06
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/28113

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