The Role of Contextualization in Individuals’ Vulnerability to Phishing Attempts

The Role of Contextualization in Individuals’ Vulnerability to Phishing Attempts

Hackers who engage in phishing manipulate their victims into revealing confidential information by exploiting their motives, habits, and cognitive biases. Drawing on heuristic-systematic processing and the anchoring effect, this study examines how the contextualization of phishing messages, in the...

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Main Authors: Farkhondeh Hassandoust, Harminder Singh, Jocelyn Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Australasian Association for Information Systems 2020-09-01
Series:Australasian Journal of Information Systems
Subjects:
Information security
Phishing
Contextualisation
Heuristic-systematic processing
Anchoring effect
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Online Access:https://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/2693

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https://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/2693

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