Cybersecurity and Cognitive Science

Dr. Ahmed Moustafa is the Head of School of Psychology and Professor of Psychology and Computational Modeling at Bond University, Australia. He obtained his BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science at Cairo University, Egypt, and his PhD in Cognitive Science at the University of Lafayette, USA. Dr. Moustafa specializes in computational and neuropsychological studies of addiction, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, PTSD, depression, and Alzheimer’s disease. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Discover Psychology (Springer) and has edited ten books, including Elsevier’s Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Aspects of Drug Addiction; The Psychology and Neuroscience of Impulsivity; Cognitive and Behavioral Dysfunction in Schizophrenia; Mental Health Effects of COVID-19; Alzheimer’s Disease; Cybersecurity and Cognitive Science; Big Data in Psychiatry and Neurology; The Nature of Depression; and Social Cognition in Psychosis.

• Part I: Social Engineering, Security, and Cyber Attacks1. Social Engineering Attacks and Defenses in the Physical World vs. Cyberspace: A Contrast Study2. A Dual Integrated Dynamic Intrusion Detection System (DID-IDS) for Protection Against Network and Social Engineering Attacks3. Working from Home Users at Risk of the COVID-19 Ransomware Attacks4. Individual Differences in Cyber Security Behavior Using Personality Based Models to Predict Susceptibility to Sextortion Attacks5. The Development of a Logic for Capturing Mismorphisms: Deconstructing Security and Privacy IssuesPart II: Behavioral Studies of Cybersecurity6. Are you Anonymous? Social Psychological Processes of Hacking Groups7. On the Relation Between Hacking and Autism or Autistic Traits: A Systematic Review of the Scientific Evidence8. An Introduction to Cyberbullying9. The Impact of Cyberbullying Across the Lifespan10. Cyber Situational Awareness Issues and Challenges11. Development and Application of the Information Security Core Human Error Causes (IS-CHEC) TechniquePart III: Machine Learning and Modeling  Applications to Cybersecurity12. Machine Learning for the Security of Healthcare Systems Based on Internet of Things and Edge  Computing?13. Lying Trolls: Detecting Deception and Text-Based Disinformation Using Machine Learning14. Modeling the Effects of Network Size in a Deception Game Involving Honeypots15. Computational Modeling of Decisions in Cyber-Security Games in the Presence or Absence of Interdependence Information