Monica Whitty

Professor Monica Whitty is the Head of Department for Software Systems and Cyber Security, where she holds a Professorship in Human Factors in Cyber Security at Monash University. She has previously held Professorship posts at top institutions in the UK and Australia. Monica is an expert in understanding the psychological issues related to cyber security and cybercrimes and has led large interdisciplinary projects supported by competitive grants, such as projects on cyberscams; insider threats; online deception and cyber security practices, education and awareness raising, and detecting and preventing dis/misinformation. She was a member of the Global Futures Communities for Cyber Security for the World Economic Forum.

Professor Whitty is the author of 5 books and over 100 articles.

Examples of some of her important publications in the area of cyberscams includes:

Books

Whitty, M. T. & Young, G. (2017). Cyberpsychology: The study of individuals, society and digital technologies. Wiley.

Young, G., & Whitty, M. T. (2012). Transcending Taboos: A moral and psychological examination of cyberspace. Routledge.

Whitty, M. T., & Joinson, A. N. (2009). Truth, Lies, and Trust on Internet. London: Routledge, Psychology Press.

Whitty, M. T., Baker, A. J., & Inman, J. A. (Eds.) (2007). Online matchmaking. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Whitty, M. T. & Carr, A. N. (2006). Cyberspace romance: The psychology of online relationships. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal articles and book chapters

Whitty, M. T., Ruddy, C., & Keatley, D. A. (2023). To catch a thief: Examining socio-technical variables and developing a pathway framework for IP theft Insider attacks. International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance, 377-3

Whitty, M. T. (2023). The human element of online consumer scams arising from the coronavirus pandemic. In R. G. Smith, R. Sarre, L. Yao-Chung Chang, L. Yiu-Chung Lau (Eds.). Cybercrime in the pandemic digital age and beyond. (pp. 57-85). Palgrave

Whitty, M. T. (2023). Drug mule for love. Journal of Financial Crime, 30(3), 795-812.

Whitty, M. T. (2021). Developing a conceptual model for insider threat. Journal of Management & Organization, 27(5), 911-929.

Walther, J.B., & Whitty, M.T. (2021). Language, psychology, and new new Media: The hyperpersonal model of mediated communication at twenty-five years, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 40(1), 120-135.

Whitty, M. T. (2020). Is there a scam for everyone? Psychologically profiling cyberscam victims. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 26(3), 399-409.

Whitty, M. T. (2019). Who can spot a romance scam? Journal of Financial Crime, 26(2), 623-633.

Sorell, T., & Whitty, M. (2019). Online romance scams and victimhood, Security Journal, 32(3), 342-361.

Whitty, M. T. (2019). Predicting susceptibility to cyber-fraud victimhood. Journal of Financial Crime, 26(1), 277-292.

Suarez-Tangil, G., Edwards, M., Peersman, C., Stringhini, G., Rashid, A., & Whitty, M. (2019). Automatically dismantling online dating fraud. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 15, 1128-1137.

Whitty, M. T. (2018). It’s just a game: Developing a framework to understand cyberfraud from a Nigerian cultural perspective. International Journal of Cyber Criminology, 12(1), 97-114.

Whitty, M. T. (2018). Do you love me? Psychological Characteristics of romance scam victims. Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, 21(2), 105-109.

Edwards, M., Suarez-Tangil, Peersman, C., Stringhini, G., Rashid, A., & Whitty, M. (2018). The geography of online dating fraud. Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro ’18), IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 24 2018, Hyatt Regency

Whitty, M.T., Edwards, M., Levi, M., Peersman, C., Rashid, A., Sasse, A., Sorell, T., & Stringhini, G. (2017). Ethical and social challenges with developing autonomous agents to detect and warn potential victims of Mass-marketing fraud (MMF).

Whitty, M.T., & Buchanan, T. (2016). The online dating romance scam: The psychological impact on victims – both financial and non-financial. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 16(2), 176-194.

Whitty, M. T. (2015). Anatomy of the Online Dating Romance Scam. Security Journal, 28, 443-455.

Whitty, M. T. (2015). Mass-marketing fraud: A growing concern. IEEE Security & Privacy, 13(4), 84-87

Buchanan, T., & Whitty, M. T. (2014). The online dating romance scam: Causes and consequences of victimhood. Psychology, Crime & Law 20(3), 261-283.

Whitty, M. T. (2013). The Scammers Persuasive Techniques Model: Development of a stage model to explain the online dating romance scam. British Journal of Criminology, 53(4), 665-684.

Whitty, M. T., & Buchanan, T. (2012). The online romance scam: A serious crime. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 15(3), 181-183.