Education and Research Tools for Social Engineering and Ransomware

About our guests:

Rachel Bleiman

https://liberalarts.temple.edu/content/rachel-bleiman

Prof Nicolas Vermeys

https://www.vermeys.com

Papers or resources mentioned in this episode:

Rege, A., & Bleiman, R. (2021, December). Collegiate Social Engineering Capture the Flag Competition. In 2021 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime) (pp. 1-11). IEEE.

Rege, A., Nguyen, T., & Bleiman, R. (2020, August). A social engineering awareness and training workshop for STEM students and practitioners. In 2020 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Rege, A., & Bleiman, R. (2023, March). A Free and Community-Driven Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Dataset. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybersecurity, Situational Awareness and Social Media: Cyber Science 2022; 20–21 June; Wales (pp. 25-37). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.

Other:

The CARE Lab

https://sites.temple.edu/care/social-engineering/course-projects/

The Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks (CIRA) Dataset

https://sites.temple.edu/care/cira/

The Summer Social Engineering School

https://sites.temple.edu/socialengineering/

This episode was edited in part using a text based editing tool that uses machine learning. I think the results were a bit mixed on this episode, particularly in terms of workflow. The tools offer promise though.