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Behavioral Cybersecurity: Fundamental Principles and Applications of Personality Psychology

Addressing DDoS Attacks Ransomware Facebook “This is Your Digital Life”Yu Pingan The (US) Department of Justice Success in Prosecuting Cybercriminals: Who’s Winning?“Fake News” Concerning the Coronavirus Problems References Behavioral Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Without the Human: Is it Only a Matter of Time?Cybersecurity and Personality Psychology: Why this Field of Psychological Science?References Personality Theory and Methods of Assessment Personality Traits and the “Social Actor”Personality Characteristic Adaptations and “The Motivated Agent”Extrinsic Motivation Versus Intrinsic Motivation Power Motivation: Striving for Power Social Motivation: The Striving for Affiliation Achievement Motivation: The Striving for Achievement The Narrative Identity Dimension of Human Personality: The Autobiographical Author Conclusion References Hacker Case Studies: Personality Analysis and Ethical Hacking Comrade Adrian Lamo Gabriel Hacker Personality Descriptions Ethical Hacking Programs to Encourage the Development of Ethical Hackers Problems References Profiling Profiling in the Cybersecurity Context Sony Pictures Hack Profiling Matrices The “ABCD” Analysis Problems Reference Access Control Authentication Something You Know: Passwords Good Password Choice Password Meters Tokens: What You Have Biometrics: What You Are Problems Reference The First Step: Authorization Security Levels Partial and Total Order Covert Channel Inference Control Inference Control and Research A Naïve Answer to Inference Control Randomization Firewalls Problems References Origins of Cryptography Caesar Shift Substitution and Transposition The Keyword Mixed Alphabet Cryptosystem The Vigenère Cryptosystem One-time Pad Encryption The Playfair Square Rotor Machines World War II and the Enigma Machine Problems References Game Theory Payoff Matrix Games Mixed Strategy Saddle Points Solution of All 2 × 2 Games Dominated Strategies Graphical Solutions: 2 × n and m × 2 Games Using Game Theory to Choose a Strategy in the Sony/North Korea Case References The Psychology of Gender Definitions and Analysis of Gender Gender-as-Trait: The Sex Differences Approach Gender in Social Context: The Within Gender Variability Approach Gender Linked to Power Relations Approach Gender as Intersectional: The Identity Role, Social Identity, and Social Structural Approach The Nature Versus Nurture Debate in Gender Psychology Conclusion References Turing Tests Introduction The Role of the Turing Test in Behavioral Cybersecurity A Final Exam Question While Grading Turing’s Paper in Mind The Imitation Game Respondents Summary of Results “Coaching” Respondents Future Research Problems References Modular Arithmetic and Other Computational Methods Z[sub(n)] or Arithmetic Modulo n What are the Differences in the Tables?Finite Fields The Main Result Concerning Galois Fields Matrix Algebra or Linear Algebra Problems Modern Cryptography Modern Cryptographic Techniques The Advanced Encryption Standard Subbytes ShiftRow Mixcolumns Addroundkey Test Vectors Symmetric Encryption or Public Key Cryptology The PKC Model for Key Management Can We Devise a PKC?The RSA Public Key Cryptosystem What is the RSA Cryptosystem?Problems References Steganography and Relation to Crypto A History of Steganography Transmission Issues Image Steganography Image File Formats An Example Using Cryptography and Steganography in Tandem or in Sequence Comments Problems References A Metric to Assess Cyberattacks Defining a Cybersecurity Metric The Attacker/Defender Scenario Rivest–Shamir–Adleman: An Interesting Example Attack/Defense Scenarios Conclusion Problems References Behavioral Economics Origins of Behavioral Economics Utility Challenge to Utility Theory Application of the Kahneman–Tversky Approach to Cybersecurity Nudge An Application of Nudge Theory to Cybersecurity Problems References Fake News A Fake News History Fake News Resurgence, Acceleration, and Elections What is Fake News?Satire or Fake News?Distinguishing Satire from Fake News Dailybuzzlive.com AbCnews.com.co TheOnion.com Infowars.com New Yorker Empirenews.net Beforeitsnews.com Centers for Disease Control Assessing Fake (or Not-Fake) News Problems References Exercises: Hack Labs Hack Lab 1: Social Engineering: Find Cookie’s Password Hack Lab 2: Assigned Passwords in the Clear Hack Lab 3: Sweeney Privacy Study Hack Lab 4: Password Meters Problems References Profiling Social Engineering Sweeney Privacy Understanding Hackers Game Theory Application to Profilng Turing Tests Crypto and Stego Behavioral Economics Fake News Password Meters Next Steps

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