Who falls for phish?: a demographic analysis of phishing susceptibility and effectiveness of interventions

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

• Publication date

  2010-04-10

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Computer Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1145/1753326.1753383
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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