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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly gaining popularity as individuals, groups, and organizations discover and apply its expanding capabilities. Generative AI creates or alters various content types including text, image, audio, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-30 LD Herrera , London Van Sickle , Ashley Podhradsky

Deceptive patterns are often used in interface design to manipulate users into taking actions they would not otherwise take, such as consenting to excessive data collection. We present Trickery, a narrative serious game that incorporates…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Kirill Kronhardt , Kevin Rolfes , Jens Gerken

We propose Secure Pick Up (SPU), a convenient, lightweight, in-device, non-intrusive and automatic-learning system for smartphone user authentication. Operating in the background, our system implicitly observes users' phone pick-up…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Wei-Han Lee , Xiaochen Liu , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin , Ruby B. Lee

Due to the prevalence of online services in modern society, such as internet banking and social media, it is important for users to have an understanding of basic security measures in order to keep themselves safe online. However, users…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Sam Scholefield , Lynsay A. Shepherd

With the rising number of cyberattacks, such as ransomware attacks and cyber espionage, educating non-cybersecurity professionals to recognize threats has become more important than ever before. However, traditional training methods, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Christopher Scherb , Luc Bryan Heitz , Frank Grimberg , Hermann Grieder , Marcel Maurer

We study the efficacy of strategies aimed at controlling the spread of deception-based cyber-threats unfolding on online social networks. We model directed and temporal interactions between users using a family of activity-driven networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-02 Nicolò Gozzi , Nicola Perra

In today's media landscape, propaganda distribution has a significant impact on society. It sows confusion, undermines democratic processes, and leads to increasingly difficult decision-making for news readers. We investigate the lasting…

Cheating in online games poses significant threats to the gaming industry, yet most prior research has concentrated on Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs). Competitive genres-such as Multiplayer Online Battle Arena…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jeuk Kang , Jungheum Park

Today, many different types of scams can be found on the internet. Online criminals are always finding new creative ways to trick internet users, be it in the form of lottery scams, downloading scam apps for smartphones or fake gambling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Tobias Dam , Lukas Daniel Klausner , Damjan Buhov , Sebastian Schrittwieser

One of the most important tools available to limit the spread and impact of infectious diseases is vaccination. It is therefore important to understand what factors determine people's vaccination decisions. To this end, previous behavioural…

The growing complexity and interconnectivity of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) make them increasingly vulnerable to advanced cyber threats, particularly deceptive information attacks. These sophisticated threats exploit…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ya-Ting Yang , Quanyan Zhu

Digital inequality remains a significant barrier for many older adults, limiting their ability to navigate online spaces securely and confidently while increasing their susceptibility to cyber threats. In response, we propose a novel…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Jacob Camilleri , Ashley Sheil , Michelle O'Keeffe , Moya Cronin , Melanie Gruben , Hazel Murray

Autonomous UI agents powered by AI have tremendous potential to boost human productivity by automating routine tasks such as filing taxes and paying bills. However, a major challenge in unlocking their full potential is security, which is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ivan Evtimov , Arman Zharmagambetov , Aaron Grattafiori , Chuan Guo , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Optimistic rollups rely on fraud proofs -- interactive protocols executed on Ethereum to resolve conflicting claims about the rollup's state -- to scale Ethereum securely. To mitigate against potential censorship of protocol moves, fraud…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Ben Berger , Edward W. Felten , Akaki Mamageishvili , Benny Sudakov

Today, many different types of scams can be found on the internet. Online criminals are always finding new creative ways to trick internet users, be it in the form of lottery scams, downloading scam apps for smartphones or fake gambling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Tobias Dam , Lukas Daniel Klausner , Sebastian Schrittwieser

Gamification and Serious Games are progressively being used over a host of fields, particularly to support education. Such games provide a new way to engage students with content and can complement more traditional approaches to learning.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Alice Jaffray , Conor Finn , Jason R. C. Nurse

Scams exploiting real-time social engineering -- such as phishing, impersonation, and phone fraud -- remain a persistent and evolving threat across digital platforms. Existing defenses are largely reactive, offering limited protection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ismail Hossain , Sai Puppala , Md Jahangir Alam , Sajedul Talukder

Data breaches resulting from targeted attacks against organizations, e.g., by advanced persistent threat groups, often involve social engineering (SE) as the initial attack vector before malicious software is used, e.g., for persistence,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Lukas Hafner , Florian Wutz , Daniela Pöhn , Wolfgang Hommel

Automatic scam-baiting is an online fraud countermeasure that involves automated systems responding to online fraudsters in order to waste their time and deplete their resources, diverting attackers away from real potential victims.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Piyush Bajaj , Matthew Edwards

In today's world, Web applications play a very important role in individual life as well as in any country's development. Web applications have gone through a very rapid growth in the recent years and their adoption is moving faster than…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-18 Diallo Abdoulaye Kindy , Al-Sakib Khan Pathan