Principles of Persuasion in Social Engineering and Their Use in Phishing

in T. Tryfonas, I. Askoxylakis (Ed.) Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust Third International Conference, HAS 2015 (2015)

Research on marketing and deception has identified principles of persuasion that in influence human decisions. However, this research is scattered: it focuses on specific contexts and produces different ... [more ▼]

Research on marketing and deception has identified principles of persuasion that in influence human decisions. However, this research is scattered: it focuses on specific contexts and produces different taxonomies. In regard to frauds and scams, three taxonomies are often referred in the literature: Cialdini's principles of influence, Gragg's psychological triggers, and Stajano et al. principles of scams. It is unclear whether these relate but clearly some of their principles seem overlapping whereas others look complementary. We propose a way to connect those principles and present a merged and reviewed list for them. Then, we analyse various phishing emails and show that our principles are used therein in specific combinations. Our analysis of phishing is based on peer review and further research is needed to make it automatic, but the approach we follow, together with principles we propose, can be applied more consistently and more comprehensively than the original taxonomies. [less ▲]

Analysis of composite plates by a unified formulation-cell based smoothed finite element method and field consistent elements

in Composite Structures (2013), 105

In this article, we combine Carrera's Unified Formulation (CUF) [13,7] and cell based smoothed finite element method [28] for studying the static bending and the free vibration of thin and thick laminated ... [more ▼]

In this article, we combine Carrera's Unified Formulation (CUF) [13,7] and cell based smoothed finite element method [28] for studying the static bending and the free vibration of thin and thick laminated plates. A 4-noded quadrilateral element based on the field consistency requirement is used for this study to suppress the shear locking phenomenon. The combination of cell based smoothed finite element method and field consistent approach with CUF allows a very accurate prediction of field variables. The accuracy and efficiency of the proposed approach are demonstrated through numerical experiments. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. [less ▲]