Cybercrimeology

What is Social Engineering?

Episode Summary

Social Engineering is something what we hear about a lot in the context of cybersecurity and cybercrimes, but what is it ? Dr Kevin Steinmetz from Kansas State University joins us to talk about Social Engineering as well as his hopes for the ASC Division of Cybercrime. Professor Nicolas Vermeys joins us to answer a silly question about the terminology used in cybercrime law.

Episode Notes

About our guests:

Dr Kevin Steinmetz

https://www.k-state.edu/sasw/faculty/steinmetz.html

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mEgRonIAAAAJ&hl=en

Prof Nicolas Vermeys

https://www.vermeys.com

Papers or resources mentioned in this episode:

Steinmetz, K. F., & Henderson, H. (2012). Hip-Hop and Procedural Justice: Hip-Hop Artists’ Perceptions of Criminal Justice. Race and Justice2(3), 155–178. https://doi.org/10.1177/2153368712443969

Kevin F. Steinmetz (2023) Executing Effective Social Engineering Penetration Tests: A Qualitative Analysis,Journal of Applied Security Research, 18:2, 246-266, DOI: 10.1080/19361610.2021.2002119

Steinmetz, K. F., & Holt, T. J. (2023). Falling for Social Engineering: A Qualitative Analysis of Social Engineering Policy Recommendations. Social Science Computer Review41(2), 592–607. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393221117501

Goffman, E. (2002). The presentation of self in everyday life. 1959. Garden City, NY259.

Agnew, R. (2006). Pressured into crime: An overview of general strain theory.

Other:

This episode was in part edited using a text based audio editing which is an interesting application of machine learning technology to software.