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- Phishing Susceptibility and the (In-)Effectiveness of Common Anti-Phishing Interventions in a Large University Hospital Tolsdorf et al. (2025). Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '25) Susceptibility and intervention effectiveness varied sharply by staff group, and risk from a few phishing emails lingered about three days. Technical measures (filtering, in-email warnings) worked best, generic [EXTERNAL] tags did little, and some staff reacted to the simulation with fear, shame, guilt, and hostility.
- Cyber security fear appeals: unexpectedly complicated Renaud & Dupuis (2019). Proceedings of the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW '19) A review of the wider fear-appeal literature finds real disagreement over whether fear appeals are helpful or advisable, and wide variation in how cyber security fear-appeal experiments are designed. The authors propose a standard protocol for such studies.