Is This Phishing? Older Age Is Associated With Greater Difficulty Discriminating Between Safe and Malicious Emails.
Is This Phishing? Older Age Is Associated With Greater Difficulty Discriminating Between Safe and Malicious Emails.
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这是网络钓鱼吗？
DOI：
10.1093/geronb/gbaa228
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发表时间：
2021
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Wilson,RobertC
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Grilli,MatthewD;McVeigh,KatelynS;Hakim,ZiadM;Wank,AubreyA;Getz,SarahJ;Levin,BonnieE;Ebner,NatalieC;Wilson,RobertC
随着我们的社交世界越来越数字化，人们也越来越担心老年人会成为“网络钓鱼”电子邮件的受害者，这些电子邮件试图欺骗人们进行身份盗窃和欺诈。在本研究中，我们调查了年龄是否与感知到的网络钓鱼电子邮件怀疑的差异有关。方法65名认知正常的中老年人对一系列真实和钓鱼电子邮件进行从绝对安全到绝对可疑的评分。结果：尽管年龄越大，对电子邮件安全的整体认知变化并不相关，但根据感知到的怀疑程度，年龄越大，对真实电子邮件和钓鱼电子邮件的区分程度越差。这些发现表明，认知正常的老年人可能特别容易遭受网络欺诈，因为他们对电子邮件可信度的敏感度随着年龄的增长而降低。
ObjectivesAs our social worlds become increasingly digitally connected, so too has concern about older adults falling victim to “phishing” emails, which attempt to deceive a person into identity theft and fraud. In the present study, we investigated whether older age is associated with differences in perceived suspiciousness of phishing emails.MethodsSixty-five cognitively normal middle-aged to older adults rated a series of genuine and phishing emails on a scale from definitely safe to definitely suspicious.ResultsAlthough older age was not related to a shift in overall perception of email safety, older age was related to worse discrimination between genuine and phishing emails, according to perceived suspiciousness.DiscussionThese findings suggest that cognitively normal older adults may be at particular risk for online fraud because of an age-associated reduction in their sensitivity to the credibility of emails.