Abstract:Phishing still represents a main security threat in the digital world. Attackers primarily by means of email try to gain access to user's sensitive personal credentials. By using these credentials, attackers cause disasters on the individual level by inflicting, for example, severe economic losses or reputational damage due to identity theft. Awareness is one important factor to increase resilience. This paper based on recent literature first gives a general overview on social engineering as mean for phishing … Show more
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