Social engineering in social networking sites: Affect-based model

While social engineering represents a real and ominous threat to many organizations, companies, governments, and individuals, social networking sites (SNSs) have been identified as some of the most common means of social engineering attacks. Due to factors that reduce users' ability to detect s...

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Published in8th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2013) pp. 508 - 515
Main Authors Algarni, Abdullah, Yue Xu, Taizan Chan, Yu-Chu Tian
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Infonomics Society 01.12.2013
Subjects
Companies
Information security
Internet
Privacy
Psychology
Security
Social engineering
Social network services
Social networking sites
Trust
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Summary:While social engineering represents a real and ominous threat to many organizations, companies, governments, and individuals, social networking sites (SNSs) have been identified as some of the most common means of social engineering attacks. Due to factors that reduce users' ability to detect social engineering tricks and increase attackers' ability to launch them, SNSs seem to be perfect breeding grounds for exploiting people's vulnerabilities and the weakest link in security. This work will contribute to the social engineering knowledge base by identifying different entities and sub-entities that affect social-engineering-based attacks in SNSs. Moreover, this paper includes an intensive and comprehensive overview of different aspects of social engineering threats in SNSs.
DOI:10.1109/ICITST.2013.6750253