Modern authentication schemes in smartphones and IoT devices: An empirical survey

MT Ahvanooey, MX Zhu, Q Li… - IEEE Internet of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
User authentication remains a challenging issue, despite the existence of a large number of
proposed solutions, such as traditional text-based, graphical-based, biometrics-based, Web …

Targeted online password guessing: An underestimated threat

D Wang, Z Zhang, P Wang, J Yan… - Proceedings of the 2016 …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
While trawling online/offline password guessing has been intensively studied, only a few
studies have examined targeted online guessing, where an attacker guesses a specific …

Birthday, name and bifacial-security: understanding passwords of Chinese web users

D Wang, P Wang, D He, Y Tian - 28th USENIX security symposium …, 2019 - usenix.org
Much attention has been paid to passwords chosen by English speaking users, yet only a
few studies have examined how non-English speaking users select passwords. In this …

“Get a red-hot poker and open up my eyes, it's so boring” 1: Employee perceptions of cybersecurity training

A Reeves, D Calic, P Delfabbro - Computers & security, 2021 - Elsevier
Organisations and security professionals design Security Education, Training, and
Awareness (SETA) programs to improve cybersecurity behaviour, but they are often poorly …

Measuring website password creation policies at scale

S Alroomi, F Li - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Researchers have extensively explored how password creation policies influence the
security and usability of user-chosen passwords, producing evidence-based policy …

On the economics of offline password cracking

J Blocki, B Harsha, S Zhou - 2018 IEEE Symposium on Security …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We develop an economic model of an offline password cracker which allows us to make
quantitative predictions about the fraction of accounts that a rational password attacker …

[HTML][HTML] How memory anxiety can influence password security behavior

N Woods, M Siponen - Computers & Security, 2024 - Elsevier
Password reuse and modification are insecure password behaviors that are becoming
increasingly prevalent as users are obliged to remember more passwords to access various …

Balancing password security and user convenience: exploring the potential of prompt models for password generation

AP Umejiaku, P Dhakal, VS Sheng - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
With the increasing prevalence of cyber attacks and data breaches, the importance of strong
passwords cannot be overstated. Password generating software has been widely used to …

Omnicrawl: Comprehensive measurement of web tracking with real desktop and mobile browsers

D Cassel, SC Lin, A Buraggina, W Wang… - Proceedings on …, 2022 - petsymposium.org
Over half of all visits to websites now take place in a mobile browser, yet the majority of web
privacy studies take the vantage point of desktop browsers, use emulated mobile browsers …

" Make Them Change it Every Week!": A Qualitative Exploration of Online Developer Advice on Usable and Secure Authentication

JH Klemmer, M Gutfleisch, C Stransky, Y Acar… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Usable and secure authentication on the web and beyond is mission-critical. While
password-based authentication is still widespread, users have trouble dealing with …