Profiling User Vulnerability to Phishing through Psychological and Behavioral Factors

Phishing remains one of the most pervasive cybersecurity threats, shifting the focus from technological vulnerabilities to human cognitive and psychological factors. In coherence with the trend of studies on phishing to increasingly focus on human aspects and vulnerable users profiling, this stud...

Evidence of Cognitive Biases in Capture-The-Flag Cybersecurity Competitions

Understanding how cognitive biases influence adversarial decision-making is essential for developing effective cyber defenses. Capture-the-Flag CTF competitions provide an ecologically valid testbed to study attacker behavior at scale, simulating real-world intrusion scenarios under pressure. We...

4 Fallacies That Keep SMBs Vulnerable to Ransomware, Pt. 1

This post is co-authored by Chris Henderson, Senior Director of Information Security at Datto, Inc. Ransomware has focused on big-game hunting of large enterprises in the past years, and those events often make the headlines. The risk can be even more serious for small and medium-sized businesses...

There's something "Human" to Social Engineering !

There's something "Human" to Social Engineering ! At the psychological skill of Social Engineering Social engineering is the human side of breaking into corporate or personal pc's to gain information. Even companies that have an authentication process, firewalls, vpn's and network monitoring...

There's something "Human" to Social Engineering !

There's something "Human " to Social Engineering ! At the psychological skill of Social Engineering Social engineering is the human side of breaking into corporate or personal pc's to gain information. Even companies that have an authentication process, firewalls, vpn's and network monitoring...