Undermining:social engineering using open source intelligence gathering

Digital deposits are undergoing exponential growth. These may in turn be exploited to support cyber security initiatives through open source intelligence gathering. Open source intelligence itself is a doubleedged sword as the data may be harnessed not only by intelligence services to counter cyber-crime and terrorist activity but also by the perpetrator of criminal activity who use them to socially engineer online activity and undermine their victims. Our preliminary case study shows how the security of any company can be surreptitiously compromised by covertly gathering the open source personal data of the company’s employees and exploiting these in a cyber attack. Our method uses tools that can search, drill down and visualise open source intelligence structurally. It then exploits these data to organise creative spear phishing attacks on the unsuspecting victims who unknowingly activate the malware necessary to compromise the company’s computer systems. The entire process is the covert and virtual equivalent of overtly stealing someone’s password ‘over the shoulder’. A more sophisticated development of this case study will provide a seamless sequence of interoperable computing processes from the initial gathering of employee names to the successful penetration of security measures

Experiential learning not enough for organ procurement surgery: implications for perioperative nursing education

Context —Perioperative nurses play a vital role in assisting in surgical procedures for multiorgan procurement, receiving little education apart from on-the-job experiential learning when they are asked to participate in these procedures. Objectives —Within an Australian context and as part of a larger study, this article describes issues that hindered perioperative nurses’ participatory experiences as a result of lacking education, previous exposure, and preparation for assisting in surgical procedures for organ procurement. Design —The grounded theory method was used to develop a substantive theory of perioperative nurses’ experiences of participating in surgical procedures for multiorgan procurement. Participants —Thirty-five perioperative nurses who had experience in surgical procedures for organ procurement from regional, rural, and metropolitan hospitals of 2 Australian states, New South Wales and Western Australia, participated in the research. Results —Levels of knowledge and experience emerged from the data as an influencing condition and was reported to affect the perioperative nurses’ participatory experiences when assisting in procurement surgical procedures. Six components of levels of knowledge and experience were identified and are described. Conclusion —The findings from this study provide a unique contribution to the existing literature by providing an in-depth understanding of the educational needs of perioperative nurses in order to assist successfully in multiorgan procurement procedures. These findings could guide further research with implications for clinical initiatives or education programs specifically targeting the perioperative nursing profession both locally and internationally

Justice, development and the land: the social context of Scotland’s energy transition

Scotland, like many other countries, is undergoing a transition to renewable energy. This paper discusses the social context within which this transition is taking place and which is conditioning the possibilities for energy development and its effects on people. In particular, the paper explores historically-rooted conflicts relating to land rights and wild land protection, considering these issues and their relationship to energy development in terms of landscape justice (i.e. the principle of fairness in the ways people relate to the landscape and to each other through the landscape). Pursuing a more just settlement between people and landscape is often a matter of understanding problematic pasts and working to overcome their harmful legacies. It is argued that there is an important role for heritage practice in helping to deliver energy development which takes the historical, social and cultural context more fully into account and thereby helps to bring about a more just settlement between people and the landscape

Defining restoration targets for acidified upland lakes using diatom and cladoceran sub-fossil remains and the modern analogue technique

Evaluating recovery of acidified lakes towards a target based on their pre-acidification status is a difficult task as there are very few biological records for these remote upland systems. The analogue matching approach can be used to identify modern analogues for the pre-acidification status of lakes using the sub-fossil remains of diatoms and Cladocera, which can be used as recovery targets. An 83-lake modern training set was created, with full diatom, cladoceran, hydrochemistry and catchment data for each lake. Fossil samples from 10 lakes of the UK Acid Waters Monitoring Network (UKAWMN) were chosen to represent pre-acidification conditions in those lakes. The closest analogues in the modern training set were identified for each fossil sample by means of the squared chord distance measure. The distributions of the Cladocera in the training set were analysed using a range of multivariate statistical technique. Individual cladoceran species response curves for selected environmental determinands were calculated. A 163-lake diatom training set has been compiled from existing data holdings and the patterns in the data were explored using direct ordination methods. A comparison with the diatom training set from the Surface Waters Acidification Project is also made. Close modern analogues were identified for 8 UKAWMN lakes. The majority of these modern analogues are located in North and Northwest Scotland; areas of low sulphur and nitrogen deposition. Comparison of the hydrochemical characteristics of the UKAWMN lakes to those of the modern analogues showed that the modern analogues had higher lake water pH and alkalinity levels and lower aluminium concentrations. Ionic strength and calcium concentrations in the analogue lakes were similar to observed values in the UKAWMN lakes. These results indicate that the analogue matching approach using diatom and cladoceran remains is a simple, robust and reliable method of identifying modern analogues for acidified lakes in upland areas of the UK

A Method Impact Assessment Framework for User Experience Evaluations with Children

Based upon a review of the literature, this paper presents a Method Impact Assessment Framework. Theoretically synthesized, the framework offers five dimensions: (1) the role of the child, (2) the user experience construct, (3) system, (4) epistemological perspective, (5) Practical and Ethical Concerns. Although other dimensions could have been construed, these were judged to be the most pertinent to understanding evaluation methods with children. The framework thus provides a critical lens in which evaluation methods can be assessed by the Children Computer Interaction (CCI) Community to inform method selection

Working Ethically in Participatory Research with Children

In this paper we present the ABCD framework for working ethically with children and young people in participatory design studies. This framework covers A – Agreement and consent made between all participants and interested parties; B – Behaviour of the research team towards the activities, requiring them to examine their motivations and to be honest in their interactions with children; C – Classroom experience in participatory sessions during which children are encouraged to discuss the nature of their participation, and D – Dissemination of the work and planning appropriate follow on activities to ensure that children are informed about the outputs from their contributions. We discuss the process by which we developed the framework, the challenges raised by working in this way with children and the role of values in participatory research

Are electronic theses and dissertations radically changing the nature and scope of doctoral research dissemination and use?

Originally presented as: GOODFELLOW, L. M., MACDUFF, C., LESLIE, G., COPELAND, S., NOLFI, D. and BLACKWOOD, D., 2012. Are electronic theses and dissertations radically changing the nature and scope of doctoral research dissemination and use' at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Doctoral Education Conference 2012: Leading Change, Advancing Health: An Agenda for Doctoral Education at Naples Grande Beach, Naples, Florida 25-28 January 2012. Poster designed by Karen A. Kmetz

Nurses’ perceptions of the sustainability of a standardised assessment for preventing complications in a ICU: a qualitative study

Background: Quality improvement projects have been widely adopted to prevent complications in the ICU. Objective: This paper describes nurses' perceptions of implementation strategies and the potential sustainability of a practice change intervention to prevent complications in a Malaysian ICU. Design: A participatory action research using five focus group discussions were undertaken with 19 nurses in a single ICU in regional Malaysia. Focus group transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis. Results: The main themes derived from the interviews were: [1] Empowering staff to embrace evidence-based practices; [2] Staff knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs that impact on behaviour; and [3] management support and leadership are influential in staff behaviours (acceptance & perseverance of change process). Discussion: Resistance to change was recognized as a barrier to adopting evidence based recommendations. There is a need to improve nurses' knowledge, attitude and awareness of the importance of assessment for VAP, CRBSI and PIs in the ICU