Principles of Persuasion in Social Engineering and Their Use in Phishing

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Interacción

• Publication date

  2015-08-02

• Fields of study

  Business, Computer Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20376-8_4
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