Investigations into social engineering evidence for security research

Publikationstyp
Doctoral Thesis
Date Issued
2023
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Übelacker, Sven  orcid-logo
Advisor
Gollmann, Dieter
Referee
Freiling, Felix C.  
Title Granting Institution
Technische Universität Hamburg
Place of Title Granting Institution
Hamburg
Examination Date
2022-06-24
Institut
Sicherheit in verteilten Anwendungen E-15 (H)  
TORE-DOI
10.15480/882.4933
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/14797
Citation
Technische Universität Hamburg (2023)
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When technical protection mechanisms are too inflexible and security decisions are passed to users, users become part of the attack surface of a socio-technical system. This thesis contributes to the science of security regarding Social Engineering (SE), where users are the core enabler of successful attacks. Various sources were consulted to identify, analyse, and understand SE, enabling the development of a multidisciplinary knowledge base and appropriate safeguards. A suitable definition comprising five SE indicators was developed to examine anecdotes whether they express SE. Court documents (phishing), Lego modelling (cloud), and a novel SE poetry slam concept served as sources for in-depth analyses.
DDC Class
004: Computer Sciences
Funding(s)
Technology-supported Risk Estimation by Predictive Assessment of Socio-technical Security  
Funding Organisations
European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement no. 318003
UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under grant number EP/M020320/1
Lizenz
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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