Cyberskepticism: The Mind's Firewall

摘要

This article explains the context within which cyber deception has fermented. It then offers several examples of the forms that cyber deception has taken in recent years. Topics discussed include social engineering, the internet -- a fertile playing field, cyber deception from an unlikely and trusted source, cyber linking the virtual world with the real world (especially romance), cyber deceptive visitors, cyber deceptive RFID tags, cyber deception to breach firewalls, cyber deceptive advertising, cyber deception techniques of a hacker, cyber phishing, cyber deception and hoaxbusters, cyber deception by insurgents, cyber address book harvesting, and cyber deception by the Russian military via reflexive control. The bottom line: be a cyberskeptic. Only in this way can one erect an effective cognitive defense against the many forms of cyber deception. The mind has no firewall except skepticism.