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Archive for February 18th, 2014

 

WATCH Talk – Going Spear Phishing: Exploring Embedded Training and Awareness

February 18th, 2014 / in Uncategorized / by Ann Drobnis

On February 20 at 12:00pm EST, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will host it’s next Washington Area Trustworthy Computing Hour (WATCH) talk.  Deanna Caputo of the MITRE Corporation will give a talk titled Going Spear Phishing: Exploring Embedded Training and Awareness.  Caputo is currently a Principal Behavioral Psychologist supporting the U.S. law enforcement and intelligence communities.  Previously, she worked for the Department of Defense as a senior human factors intelligence analyst.  She holds a Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology from Cornell University, with specialization in Judgment and Decision-making and Psychology and Law.   Abstract To explore the effectiveness of embedded training, we conducted a large-scale experiment that tracked workers’ reactions […]