Speaker
Cristiana Constantinescu
(Scoala Doctorala “Constantin Belea”, Universitatea din Craiova)
Description
This paper conducts a study upon possibilities and
dangers of fraudulent attacks that can be performed upon
academic and research platforms, with the usage of the novel
top level domain names issued by Google Registry: .dad, .phd,
.prof, .esq, .foo, .zip, .mov and .nexus in May 2023. In the
following sections, we will focus on attempts using .zip TLD. The
present contains a bidirectional perspective simulated attack -
one in which the academic institution represents the target and
another in which the said institution represents the impersonated
entity, as well as analysis upon platform decisions of main public
communication channels and manners of protection against data
fraud attacks and attempts in academic and research scenario.
Author
Cristiana Constantinescu
(Scoala Doctorala “Constantin Belea”, Universitatea din Craiova)
