Cybercrimeology

Too Good to be True: Cybersecurity advice and susceptibility to fraud

Episode Summary

Why do people fall for scams and what can we do about it ? Dr Monica Whitty joins us to talk about the multi-disciplinary approach to the paper "Predicting susceptibility to cyber-fraud victimhood." and cybersecurity awareness campaigns.

Episode Notes

About the Guest

https://unsw.adfa.edu.au/our-people/professor-monica-whitty

Papers Mentioned:

Whitty, M. T. (2019). Predicting susceptibility to cyber-fraud victimhood. Journal of Financial Crime.

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JFC-10-2017-0095/full/html

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Other:

The cybersafety library resource program I mentioned is called cybersec101, you can find it here https://cybersec101.ca

The hilarious PSA film "Safety: Harm Hides at home" used for the sample at the start can be found in the Prelinger archives at archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/safety_harm_hides

Music made with software (looper) from AudioKit. https://audiokitpro.com/