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Inside risks: semantic network attacks
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Researchers have proposed the term Semantic Attack to differentiate from non-technical social engineering.
“To differentiate from these, researchers have proposed the term Semantic Attack [Schneier 2000; Jordan and Heather 2005; Thompson 2007].”
From A Taxonomy of Attacks and a Survey of Defence Mechanisms for Semantic Social Engineering Attacks (2016) · cites this paper as Schneier 2000
In the paper’s discussion of three waves of network attacks (page not specified), Schneier calls the third wave “semantic” and contrasts it with physical and syntactic attacks. The paper does not say the term was proposed to distinguish semantic attacks from non-technical social engineering. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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A Taxonomy of Attacks and a Survey of Defence Mechanisms for Semantic Social Engineering Attacks
Heartfield, R., & Loukas, G. (2016) · ACM Computing Surveys · doi:10.1145/2835375 · Cited by 202
Metadata
- Authors
- Schneier, B.
- Affiliations
- Metro Transit (US)
- Corresponding author
- Schneier, Bruce
- ORCID
- Schneier, Bruce
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 2000-12
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 168
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2088505378
- Cited by
- 30
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Communications of the ACM (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information and Cyber Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Keywords
- semantic networks, knowledge representation, information security, expert systems
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