Everyday Cyber Security in Organizations

Everyday cybersecurity involves both technological and human security. Technological security focuses on maintaining the integrity of the technology, ensuring the usability of technological security, and controlling access. Human security encompasses interactions between people mediated through technology. This report is a review of academic and policy literature in the context of everyday cybersecurity in organizations. The …

Approche de classification à une classe pour la détection de bots sur Twitter

Les bots sur Twitter peuvent être utilisés à des fins malveillantes, telles que la distribution de maliciels, la diffusion de fausses informations, la simulation de mouvements politiques populaires et l’interférence de mouvements sociaux. Twitter permet à ses utilisateurs d’accéder à ses services via une page Web, des applications mobiles et une interface de programmation d’application …

One-class classification approach for bot detection on Twitter

Twitter bots can be used for malicious purposes, such as distributing malware, disseminate fake news, faking grassroots political movements, and interfering with social movements. Twitter allows its users to access its services through a web page, mobile applications, and an application programming interface (API). Even though API allows enhances users’ experience with contents, API also …

Prendre en compte le facteur humain dans la cyberéducation

Les utilisateurs humains sont généralement la principale cible des cyberattaques, des tentatives d’hameçonnage et des fuites de données générées par des attaques d’ingénierie sociale. Ainsi, plusieurs facteurs humains peuvent augmenter ou diminuer la probabilité d’être victime d’une cyberattaque, d’un piratage ou d’une violation de données. La cyberhygiène implique l’établissement et le maintien de comportements cruciaux …

Accounting for the human factors in cyber education

Human users are generally the main target for socially engineered cyber attacks, phishing scams, and data leaks. Thus, several human factors may raise or diminish the likelihood of being the victim of a cyberattack, hack, or data breach. Cyber hygiene involves establishing and maintaining crucial cyber health behaviours. Routinely changing passwords and avoiding recycled passwords, …

Unintended Harms of Cybersecurity Countermeasures

Organizations can deploy cybersecurity countermeasures to prevent or reduce the harms of specific risks. These measures include technical controls, policies, and advice for system users. Although cybersecurity countermeasures are put in place to reduce or prevent damage, they can have unintended consequences. These harms can be negligible such as, causing disruption or serious and thus …