RADAMS: Resilient and Adaptive Alert and Attention Management Strategy against Informational Denial-of-Service (IDoS) Attacks. (arXiv:2111.03463v2 [cs.CR] UPDATED)

Attacks exploiting human attentional vulnerability have posed severe threats
to cybersecurity. In this work, we identify and formally define a new type of
proactive attentional attacks called Informational Denial-of-Service (IDoS)
attacks that generate a large volume of feint attacks to overload human
operators and hide real attacks among feints. We incorporate human factors
(e.g., levels of expertise, stress, and efficiency) and empirical psychological
results (e.g., the Yerkes-Dodson law and the sunk cost fallacy) to model the
operators' attention dynamics and …

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