SMS-based second factor authentication is a cornerstone for many service providers, ranging from email service providers and social networks to financial institutions and online marketplaces. Attackers are not slow to capitalize on the vulnerabilities of this mechanism, using social engineering techniques to coerce users to forward authentication codes. We demonstrate one social engineering att...

The aim of this study was to compare the social capital indicators of members and non-members of cooperatives in Siahkal County.  The sample size was calculated by the Cochran formula to include300individuals (150 member cooperatives and 150 non-members of the cooperative) that were selected by the stratified random sampling method. The main tool employed in this study was a questionnaire that ...

wide-ranging sociological studies have been conducted on the history of iranian intellectuality and modernism. the findings jointly acknowledge that due to communication with the west and following the effects that was received from modernism, the first generation of iranian intellectualism was emerged. it is said that having benefited from the translated works in its general concept, i.e. incl...

The widely shocking attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 was interpreted differently by various institutions worldwide, ranging from America's legitimate motive to begin a 'war on terror' to defend her 'very freedom', to a pretext for Bush administration to pursue G. H. W. Bush's temptation for 'a new world order'. Various institutions, therefore, made use of their...

international competition for having a greater contribution in the world is ever increasing, thus human resource management plays an important role. in a knowledge-based economy, an all-out participation of women in different social arenas promises optimal utilization of all human resource potentials. in this respect, iran has experienced an extensive presence of women in its higher education. ...