Publication Phishing: A Growing Challenge For Researchers And Scientific Societies

Publication phishing has the potential to develop further into a serious gainful enterprise if effective security measures are not in place. Be that as it may, there is growing concern over the erosion of users’ trust towards journals, conferences and other channels of publication stemming from th...

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Main Author: Sorooshian, Shahryar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Current Science Association 2016
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spelling ump-154192018-02-28T01:37:38Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/15419/ Publication Phishing: A Growing Challenge For Researchers And Scientific Societies Sorooshian, Shahryar L Education (General) Publication phishing has the potential to develop further into a serious gainful enterprise if effective security measures are not in place. Be that as it may, there is growing concern over the erosion of users’ trust towards journals, conferences and other channels of publication stemming from the rise in scam cases involving users’ money, research articles and personal identifications. Phishing is becoming a major issue for users and will be making an ever greater and prominent issue for good scientific societies who need to devise anti-journal hijacking measures to mitigate the impacts of phishing to their operations. Researchers and scientific societies need to design adequate technical security systems to mitigate phishing threat to users. This note highlights some issues and basic steps to anti-phishing educators and scientific societies to ensure the viability of anti-phishing initiatives Current Science Association 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/15419/1/fim-2016-sorooshian-publication%20phishing.pdf Sorooshian, Shahryar (2016) Publication Phishing: A Growing Challenge For Researchers And Scientific Societies. Current Science, 110 (5). pp. 766-767. ISSN 0011-3891 http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/110/05/0766.pdf
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Publication Phishing: A Growing Challenge For Researchers And Scientific Societies
description Publication phishing has the potential to develop further into a serious gainful enterprise if effective security measures are not in place. Be that as it may, there is growing concern over the erosion of users’ trust towards journals, conferences and other channels of publication stemming from the rise in scam cases involving users’ money, research articles and personal identifications. Phishing is becoming a major issue for users and will be making an ever greater and prominent issue for good scientific societies who need to devise anti-journal hijacking measures to mitigate the impacts of phishing to their operations. Researchers and scientific societies need to design adequate technical security systems to mitigate phishing threat to users. This note highlights some issues and basic steps to anti-phishing educators and scientific societies to ensure the viability of anti-phishing initiatives
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author Sorooshian, Shahryar
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title Publication Phishing: A Growing Challenge For Researchers And Scientific Societies
title_short Publication Phishing: A Growing Challenge For Researchers And Scientific Societies
title_full Publication Phishing: A Growing Challenge For Researchers And Scientific Societies
title_fullStr Publication Phishing: A Growing Challenge For Researchers And Scientific Societies
title_full_unstemmed Publication Phishing: A Growing Challenge For Researchers And Scientific Societies
title_sort publication phishing: a growing challenge for researchers and scientific societies
publisher Current Science Association
publishDate 2016
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/15419/
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http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/15419/1/fim-2016-sorooshian-publication%20phishing.pdf
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