Abstract Higher levels of trust in credible sources information times crisis such as the current COVID-19 pandemic increase public compliance with official recommendations, minimizing health risks and helping authorities manage crisis. Based on a national survey (N=1160), this article explores (a) actual various (government websites, legacy media, social interpersonal communication) during (b) ...

Phishing is a form of electronic fraud in which attackers attempt to steal sensitive information by posing as a legitimate entity. To maintain the attack unnoticed, phishers typically use fake sites that accurately mimic real ones. However, there are usually subtle visual discrepancies between these spoof sites and their legitimate counterparts that may help Internet users to identify their dec...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 63, No. 3, 2015 (“Exploring Philosophies of Information,” edited by Ken Herold), pp. 401–426. © 2015 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract Prototypical instances of disinformation include deceptive advertising (in business and in politics), government propaganda, doctored photographs, forged documents, fake maps, internet frauds, fake websites, and manipula...

Honeypots are decoy computer resources set up for the purpose of monitoring and logging the activities of entities that probe, attack or compromise them. Honeypot does work as an Intrusion Detection System which detect the attacker in a network. Activities on honeypots can be considered suspicious by definition, as there is no point for users to interact with these systems. In this paper, we pr...

One of the most important contributors to expansion and progression a nation's economy is its banking financial industry. In particular, over recent past, there has been significant increase in utilization credit debit cards, whereby all customers trade transactions either digitally internet or physically at stores. Here, customers, institutions, organizations are being put difficult position b...

This article analyses the practice of state-operated fact-checking websites in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. It is first empirical study governmental news corrections Southeast Asia covers more than 2,700 official posts published by Malaysia’s Sebenarnya.my, Singapore’s Factually, Thailand’s Anti-Fake News Center. finds that correction practices across sites mainly function to sustain sali...

Information and communication technology that’s developing is one of the main triggers information explosion today. Nowadays, various news content not only easy to obtain but also produce through platforms on internet, including popular online media, such as blogs websites. So a lot websites that are currently being circulated leads fake (hoaxes) can mislead perception thoughts readers. Therefo...

Fake news is a threat to society. A huge amount of fake posted every day on social networks which read, believed and sometimes shared by number users. On the other hand, with aim raise awareness, some users share posts that debunk using information from fact-checking websites. In this paper, we are interested in exploring role various psycholinguistic characteristics differentiating between ten...

Phishing is an emerging type of social engineering crime on the Web. Most phishers initiates attacks by sending emails to potential victims. These emails lure users to access fake websites, and induce them to expose sensitive and/or private information. The rapid development and evolution of phishing techniques pose a big challenge in Web identity security for computer science researchers in bo...