Stealing attack against controlled information, along with the increasing number of
information leakage incidents, has become an emerging cyber security threat in recent …

While researchers have developed many tools, techniques, and protocols for improving
software security, exploits and breaches are only becoming more frequent. Some of this gap …

A large proportion of dryland trees and shrubs (hereafter referred to collectively as trees)
grow in isolation, without canopy closure. These non-forest trees have a crucial role in …

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 …

Despite three decades of intensive research efforts, it remains an open question as to what
is the underlying distribution of user-generated passwords. In this paper, we make a …

Human-chosen text passwords, today's dominant form of authentication, are vulnerable to
guessing attacks. Unfortunately, existing approaches for evaluating password strength by …

Users often make passwords that are easy for attackers to guess. Prior studies have
documented features that lead to easily guessed passwords, but have not probed why users …

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From email to online banking, passwords are an essential component of modern internet
use. Yet, users do not always have good password security practices, leaving their accounts …

A probabilistic password model assigns a probability value to each string. Such models are
useful for research into understanding what makes users choose more (or less) secure …