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A Diagram Method to Analyze Illogical Thinking

Authors:
Toru Nakata
Hajime Watanabe

Keywords: logical fallacy; cyber attack; social engineering; information security; human factors

Abstract:
We propose a graphical method to express and analyze logical failure of human operators. Human factor is the weakest link on information security and industrial safety, and mare human mistakes have been making many severe accidents. Human thinking process is unstable and not always correct. There exist certain tendencies of cognitive misunderstanding, and people easily commit mistakes of such patterns. In the scene of computer crime, many attackers use those cognitive biases to deceive their victims. The cognitive biases are also the generator of critical misjudgments that brought severe industrial accidents. We nominate the most frequent patterns of irrational processing in order to identify the mechanisms of accidents on computer security and industrial safety. We can decompose processes of misjudgments into easy steps that reflect popular patterns of the cognitive biases by using the graphical method. In this paper, we try to reason patterns of thinking failures that took place in real cyber-attacks and an industrial accident.

Pages: 105 to 108

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3956

ISBN: 978-1-61208-249-3

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013