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A study by KnowBe4 sent phishing test emails to 6 million users and found that people were most likely to click on emails promising money or threatening financial loss. Users also clicked more on emails about free food/drinks or missing out on opportunities. Specific email topics like package delivery notifications and password resets had high click rates. Researchers found social media phishing, like LinkedIn requests, were also very effective at tricking users. Cybercriminals craft phishing emails to trigger knee-jerk reactions in users by making the subject seem alarming or urgent. Seasonal trends also influenced click rates, like more financial phishing in Q3 after the Equifax breach and package delivery scams in Q4.

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A study by KnowBe4 sent phishing test emails to 6 million users and found that people were most likely to click on emails promising money or threatening financial loss. Users also clicked more on emails about free food/drinks or missing out on opportunities. Specific email topics like package delivery notifications and password resets had high click rates. Researchers found social media phishing, like LinkedIn requests, were also very effective at tricking users. Cybercriminals craft phishing emails to trigger knee-jerk reactions in users by making the subject seem alarming or urgent. Seasonal trends also influenced click rates, like more financial phishing in Q3 after the Equifax breach and package delivery scams in Q4.

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Hacking
Seid Alimostafa Sanglakhi
17 June 2013

Firstly, it is best to define who is a drudge. Hackers are smart citizenry who do not have interest

in a permanent Job at the start and usually they have other aim than money. The first rationale of

this group is free people information for all and they think that it is their right to use the information

and political platform of other multitude. First of all, it is necessary to understand the real number

definition of a drudge or hacking. It is very important to know what a cyber-terrorist is not. First

of all, a cyber-terrorist is definitely not a criminal. A cyberpunk is not someone who is good

lucking the law and releasing computer virus and so on.

A hacker is also not stripling sitting in a dark room in some corner and eating pizza the whole day.

A hacker is also not somebody who is good at acts and break forest and creating very good piece

of furniture. Surprisingly, a hacker is also not always a electronic computer star and also not

somebody who can break and fracture passwords to all websites and to all application program

and to all software. Then who is exactly a hacker? The real definition of a hacker is actually a

mortal who has some very interesting timber or feature. First of all, a hacker is somebody who

likes to think out of the box, he is somebody who always likes to achieve affair that normally are

not achievable and affair that most people do not even think about.

Deuce A hacker is always somebody who wants to discover new feature article and new

characteristic , new tricks and also make things employment in a mode that most people never

think about or imagine. A hacker is a person who is highly creative and highly innovative and can

actually think and achieve things. These feature define what a hacker really is. The most
Information security
By VICTORIA MAHABI
2010

The increased dependence on technology in everyday activities has aluminum so increased

potential difference for abuse of these system of rules (de Paula et al., 2005; Lee, J. & Lee, Y.,

2002; Vroom & Solms, 2004). Most selective data arrangement storage large amounts of medium

information such as personal data, devising them a potential target for hackers. Researchers have

not been able to reliably quantify the toll of damage caused by protection breaches due to

shortcomings in the current methodology which rely on self-reported information (Parker, 1998).

Using event methodology, Gang, Curtis and Halper (2003) estimated that certificate incident s can

cost companies between $17 and $28 million incident, which amounts to 0.5 to 1.0 percent of

yearly sales for the average publicly listed company. The cost and threat of bad promotional

material have elevated information systems certificate to a tiptop priority (de Paula et al., 2005;

Markotten, 2002; Vroom & Solms, 2004). Most information security department inquiry focuses

on preserving confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information (Schneier, 2000). These

three view are generally known as the “Central Intelligence Agency” model of information

security. Confidentiality ensures that access to information is limited to authorized individuals

(external and internal) or to a specific group within an organization. Integrity controls the accuracy

and completeness of information and processing methods. Handiness ensures that authorized users

have access to information and processing methods. This definition and model of information

security has been adopted by other enquiry ers (Dhillon & Backhouse, 2000) and the model has

been extensively used in information security research (Parker, 1998; Siponen & Kukkonen,

2007). 10 Despite previous research on securing information, information security is still a John
Major problem. Building a completely secure system is impossible without effective

implementation and usage.


Spamming
Prof. Banshidhar Majhi
May 2015

The acclivity of Internet has led to consumers constantly and increasingly reappraisal and research

products and services online. Consequently, webinternet site that granary such recapitulation

become primary mark for public opinion Spam, which essentially means to sway public opinion

by placard deceptive reviews. In this study, we have worked on integration linguistic features and

N-gram moulding to develop a feature bent that can be used to detect authentic sounding yet

pseudo reviews. A data set of 1 600 reviews from XX different hotelis used for experimentation

and results. From the findings, we also try to figure out what can possibly be the factors that help

to detect the spammer, and, additionally, make suggestions that can be incorporated by websites

to command Spam based on user information. Despite the sobriety of the problem affirmation,

express work has been done to detect opinion spam. While search locomotive like Google, Bing

etc. invest considerable sentence and resources in restricting coevals of spam subject matter, e-

commerce sites have lagged behind in this area. There have been numerous cases reported where

individuals and enterprises have admitted spamming the reviews of their own products to promote

them in the online market and to create a buzz in the chat forums discussing such item. Historically,

there has been considerable study on Web spam and e-mail. Spam has also been studies in the

context of recommender system of rules. The objective of recommender system attacks is similar

to review Spam, their basic ideas are quite different. In recommender systems, a spammer injects

some pseud profile in the system to get some products less (or more) frequently recommended.
Phishing
by Robert Abel, Content Coordinator/Reporter
February 09, 2018

People are very predictable when it comes to designing phishing assaults that appeal to a possible

victims with humans most possibly to click on messages concerning money.

A current KnowBe4 study sent phishing test emails to roughly 6 million and observed customers

were most probably to click on the mock phishing emails when they promised money or threatened

the loss of money. People were also possibly to fall for phishing attacks appealing to their appetite

providing free food or drinks, emails that evoked the concern of lacking out on non-monetary

possibilities and attacks that appealed to primary curiosity such as new contact requests or picture

tags.Researchers also noticed an expanded click rate with sure electronic mail topics as nicely with

ignored deliveries and false safety notifications gaining the most clicks. The pinnacle challenge

traces of included “A Delivery Attempt Was Made” with an 18 percent click on rate, “UPS Label

Delivery 1ZBE312TNY00015011” with a sixteen percent click on rate, “Change of Password

Required Immediately” with a 15 percentage click on rate, “Unusual sign-in activity” with a 9

percent click on rate, and “Happy Holidays! Have a drink on us.” With an 8 percentage click on

rate.“Email is an effective way to phish customers when disguised as reputable email,” the report

said. “These strategies allow attackers to craft and distribute enticing cloth for each random

(general phish) and targeted (spear-phish) means, leveraging a couple of psychological triggers

and attractive in what quantities to a continuous maturity cycle.”

Researchers have been more convincing when focused on users by social media themed electronic

mail phishing attacks. LinkedIn notifications had been by means of a ways the most convincing
with requests to add people, join networks, reset passwords, and new messages convincing fifty

three percent of take a look at topics to click.

The study additionally located that login Alerts, 19 percent, tagged photos, 12 percent, free pizza

and new voice message respectively won clicks from 18 percentage of test subjects.

“The most positive templates or phishes are those that cause a knee-jerk reaction in the user,” Stu

Sjouwerman, CEO, KnowBe4 said. “They make him/her react barring wondering due to the

alarming or pressing nature of the subject.”

Sjouwerman delivered that cybercriminals already understand this and that these variety of subject

traces will persistently work with the softest of targets and serve as an wonderful vector into a

company. Some of the assaults may also have benefited from the seasons with the package

transport phishing attacks making an uptick in Q4 near the excursion season when human beings

are greater likely to be expecting things in the mail.

“Seasonal variations certainly show up as Q4 was once very concentrated on bundle delivery, no

surprises there,” Sjouwerman said. “Q3 noticed a larger amount of records breach or password

related clicks, most probably due to the Equifax breach.”

He went on to say that originally the users had been handy to trick however, the researchers rapidly

found that they could not use the equal e-mail template on the equal human beings or subjects

would sensible up to the hints so researchers had to proceed to switch the templates. Regardless,

researchers found that the same strategies eventually can be used on organizational personnel and

nevertheless work with success earlier than they are.

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