A preliminary propagation tool in social engineering attacks

Information security is one of the growing sources of concern and should know how dealing with today. Levels of sophistication of social engineering threats and the exploits from such attacks are evolving. In particular, the lack of social engineering awareness is a concern in the context of human c...

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Main Author: Hoong, Peggy
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2021
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Online Access:http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4159/
http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4159/1/17ACB02596_FYP2.pdf
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description Information security is one of the growing sources of concern and should know how dealing with today. Levels of sophistication of social engineering threats and the exploits from such attacks are evolving. In particular, the lack of social engineering awareness is a concern in the context of human cyber security risks. There are some of the challenges that encounter in the process of developing the human knowledge to fight against social engineering attacks. A detailed literature review is provided to support these arguments with analysis of contemporary approaches. Based on literature review, strengths and weaknesses of different method of awareness had been carried out. This study highlights the weaknesses of previous projects, the project plan is to develop a tool to let user able to understand the social engineering with some fun games. In the market, there are many SEAP but there do not have such social engineering attack awareness tool. There is limitation for people in different countries to purposely travel just to join the awareness program. As social engineering is gaining popularity there days, the awareness of the security breaches is significant in order to decrease the cyber security cases, avoid been target as victim with resulting huge financial and human losses. Awareness tools which provide the same working strategies as SEAP but in different form to carry out by make use of this advance technology nowadays.
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spelling utar-41592021-07-07T12:28:58Z A preliminary propagation tool in social engineering attacks Hoong, Peggy HE Transportation and Communications T Technology (General) Information security is one of the growing sources of concern and should know how dealing with today. Levels of sophistication of social engineering threats and the exploits from such attacks are evolving. In particular, the lack of social engineering awareness is a concern in the context of human cyber security risks. There are some of the challenges that encounter in the process of developing the human knowledge to fight against social engineering attacks. A detailed literature review is provided to support these arguments with analysis of contemporary approaches. Based on literature review, strengths and weaknesses of different method of awareness had been carried out. This study highlights the weaknesses of previous projects, the project plan is to develop a tool to let user able to understand the social engineering with some fun games. In the market, there are many SEAP but there do not have such social engineering attack awareness tool. There is limitation for people in different countries to purposely travel just to join the awareness program. As social engineering is gaining popularity there days, the awareness of the security breaches is significant in order to decrease the cyber security cases, avoid been target as victim with resulting huge financial and human losses. Awareness tools which provide the same working strategies as SEAP but in different form to carry out by make use of this advance technology nowadays. 2021-04-06 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4159/1/17ACB02596_FYP2.pdf Hoong, Peggy (2021) A preliminary propagation tool in social engineering attacks. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4159/
spellingShingle HE Transportation and Communications
T Technology (General)
Hoong, Peggy
A preliminary propagation tool in social engineering attacks
title A preliminary propagation tool in social engineering attacks
title_full A preliminary propagation tool in social engineering attacks
title_fullStr A preliminary propagation tool in social engineering attacks
title_full_unstemmed A preliminary propagation tool in social engineering attacks
title_short A preliminary propagation tool in social engineering attacks
title_sort preliminary propagation tool in social engineering attacks
topic HE Transportation and Communications
T Technology (General)
url http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4159/
http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4159/1/17ACB02596_FYP2.pdf