English

Mitigating Smishing: Challenges and Future Work

Cryptography and Security 2024-01-29 v1 Computers and Society Human-Computer Interaction

Abstract

This paper describes three principal challenges in smishing mitigation - limitations of device affordances, complexity of infrastructure, and cognitive and contextual factors of mobile device use. We give a high-level overview of ideas that can mitigate smishing and work around these challenges.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2401.14520,
  title  = {Mitigating Smishing: Challenges and Future Work},
  author = {Cori Faklaris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.14520},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

5 pages. In submission to ConPro: 8th Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection, co-located with the 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA USA

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