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Cybersecurity training has become a crucial part of computer science education and industrial onboarding. Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions have emerged as a valuable, gamified approach for developing and refining the skills of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yuwei Yang , Skyler Grandel , Daniel Balasubramanian , Yu Huang , Kevin Leach

This paper presents a novel approach to analyze human decision-making that involves comparing the behavior of professional chess players relative to a computational benchmark of cognitively bounded rationality. This benchmark is constructed…

General Economics · Economics 2020-12-03 Dainis Zegners , Uwe Sunde , Anthony Strittmatter

Cognitive vulnerabilities shape human decision-making and arise primarily from two sources: (1) cognitive capabilities, which include disparities in knowledge, education, expertise, or access to information, and (2) cognitive biases, such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ya-Ting Yang , Quanyan Zhu

A lack of awareness surrounding secure online behaviour can lead to end-users, and their personal details becoming vulnerable to compromise. This paper describes an ongoing research project in the field of usable security, examining the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Lynsay A. Shepherd , Jacqueline Archibald

This review explores the academic and policy literature in the context of everyday cyber security in organisations. In so doing, it identifies four behavioural sets that influences how people practice cyber security. These are compliance…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Amy Ertan , Georgia Crossland , Claude Heath , David Denny , Rikke Jensen

When undertaking cyber security risk assessments, we must assign numeric values to metrics to compute the final expected loss that represents the risk that an organization is exposed to due to cyber threats. Even if risk assessment is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Andrew Fielder , Sandra Konig , Emmanouil Panaousis , Stefan Schauer , Stefan Rass

With rise in security breaches over the past few years, there has been an increasing need to mine insights from social media platforms to raise alerts of possible attacks in an attempt to defend conflict during competition. We use…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Soumajyoti Sarkar , Mohammad Almukaynizi , Jana Shakarian , Paulo Shakarian

Machine learning and data mining techniques are utiized for enhancement of the security of any network. Researchers used machine learning for pattern detection, anomaly detection, dynamic policy setting, etc. The methods allow the program…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-31 Aviral Srivastava , Dhyan Thakkar , Sharda Valiveti , Pooja Shah , Gaurang Raval

We investigate the scale of attack and defense mathematically in the context of AI's possible effect on cybersecurity. For a given target today, highly scaled cyber attacks such as from worms or botnets typically all fail or all succeed.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Andrew J. Lohn

Not a day goes by without news about a cyber attack. Fear spreads out and lots of wrong ideas circulate. This survey aims at showing how all these uncertainties about cyber can be transformed into manageable risk. After reviewing the main…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Michel Dacorogna , Marie Kratz

The data created from virtual communication platforms presents the opportunity to explore automated measures for monitoring team performance. In this work, we explore one important characteristic of successful teams - Psychological Safety -…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Sharon Ferguson , Georgia Van de Zande , Alison Olechowski

Identifying and quantifying factors influencing human decision making remains an outstanding challenge, impacting the performance and predictability of social and technological systems. In many cases, system failures are traced to human…

The increasing critical dependencies on Internetof-Things (IoT) have raised security concerns; its application on the critical infrastructures (CIs) for power generation has come under massive cyber-attack over the years. Prior research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Henry Matey Akwetey , Paul Danquah , Godfred Yaw Koi-Akrofi

The early detection of cybersecurity events such as attacks is challenging given the constantly evolving threat landscape. Even with advanced monitoring, sophisticated attackers can spend as many as 146 days in a system before being…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Sandeep Narayanan , Ashwinkumar Ganesan , Karuna Joshi , Tim Oates , Anupam Joshi , Tim Finin

The hands-on cybersecurity training quality is crucial to mitigate cyber threats and attacks effectively. However, practical cybersecurity training is strongly process-oriented, making the post-training analysis very difficult. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Martin Macak , Radek Oslejsek , Barbora Buhnova

This paper proposes the first user-independent inter-keystroke timing attacks on PINs. Our attack method is based on an inter-keystroke timing dictionary built from a human cognitive model whose parameters can be determined by a small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Ximing Liu , Yingjiu Li , Robert H. Deng , Bing Chang , Shujun Li

Cyber risk classifications are widely used in the modeling of cyber event distributions, yet their effectiveness in out of sample forecasting performance remains underexplored. In this paper, we analyse the most commonly used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Matteo Malavasi , Gareth W. Peters , Stefan Treuck , Pavel V. Shevchenko , Jiwook Jang , Georgy Sofronov

Instructional alignment, the match between intended cognition and enacted activity, is central to effective instruction but hard to operationalize at scale. We examine alignment in cybersecurity simulations using multimodal traces from 23…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Conrad Borchers , Valdemar Švábenský , Sandesh K. Kafle , Kevin K. Tang , Jan Vykopal

Several approaches have been used to assess the performance of cyberphysical systems and their exposure to various types of risks. Such assessments have become increasingly important as autonomous attackers ramp up the frequency, duration…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Alexandre Ligo , Alexander Kott , Igor Linkov

Artificial Intelligence is being employed by humans to collaboratively solve complicated tasks for search and rescue, manufacturing, etc. Efficient teamwork can be achieved by understanding user preferences and recommending different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Lakshita Dodeja , Pradyumna Tambwekar , Erin Hedlund-Botti , Matthew Gombolay