{"id":3733,"date":"2026-06-28T17:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:56:40","slug":"understand-phishing-think-again-why-cybersecurity-language-is-failing-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=3733","title":{"rendered":"Understand &#8216;phishing?&#8217; Think again: Why cybersecurity language is failing us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-phishing-cybersecurity-language.html\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Understand &#039;phishing?&#039; Think again: Why cybersecurity language is failing us\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2024\/phishing.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">techxplore.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Understand &#8216;phishing?&#8217; Think again: Why cybersecurity language is failing us<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Cyberattacks now cost the global economy trillions, yet most people still struggle to understand what actually happens when a breach occurs. Research by Associate Professor Sky Marsen, an applied linguist and communications course director at Flinders University, and Professor Robert Biddle, a computer scientist at Carleton University in Canada, suggests a surprising reason for this gap: The language used to explain cybersecurity may be part of the problem.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciber","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}