Cybercrimeology

Education and Research Tools for Social Engineering and Ransomware

Episode Summary

Rachel Bleiman from Temple University joins us to talk about training for social engineering and the Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks (CIRA) Dataset that they have created to promote research. Prof Nicolas Vermeys answers a silly question about why some cybercrimes are tried in a criminal court and others in a civil court.

Episode Notes

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.