The persuasive phish
Olga A. Zielinska, Allaire K. Welk, Christopher B. Mayhorn, Emerson R. Murphy-Hill · 2016
Phishing is a social engineering tactic used to trick people into revealing personal information [Zielinska, Tembe, Hong, Ge, Murphy-Hill, & Mayhorn 2014]. As phishing emails continue to infiltrate users' mailboxes, what social engineering techniques are the phishers using to successfully persuade victims into releasing sensitive information?