Social Engineering

Engineering and Social Justice

Advanced social engineering attacks

Social engineering has emerged as a serious threat in virtual communities and is an effective means to attack information systems. The services used by today’s knowledge workers prepare the ground for sophisticated social engineering attacks. The growing trend towards BYOD (bring your own device) policies and the use of online communication and collaboration tools in private and business enviro...

Detecting Social Engineering

This paper proposes a theoretical solution to the problem of Social Engineering (SE) attacks perpetrated over the phone lines. As a byproduct real time attack signatures are generated, which can be used in a cyber forensic analysis of such attacks. Current methods of SE attack detection and prevention rely on policy and personnel training, which fails because the root of the problem, people, ar...

Social issues in requirements engineering

This note is intended to stimulate awareness and discussion of social issues in Requirements Engineering. It classiies issues according to what groups are involved, and sketches some issues in each class.

Engineering Requirements for Social Sustainability

Software is no longer a passive tool, but is an active agent in shaping modern communities. Yet, to date, software engineers do not endeavour to explicitly state requirements which a software system must fulfil if it is to positively contribute to the well-being (that is the social sustainability) of its user community. This paper presents a proposal on how to bridge this gap. It notes that soc...