Password strength meters are an important tool to help users choose secure passwords.
Strength meters can only then provide reasonable guidance when they are accurate, ie …

Credential-guessing attacks often exploit passwords that were reused across a user's online
accounts. To learn how organizations can better protect users, we retrospectively analyzed …

Security awareness is big business–virtually every organization in the Western world
provides some form of awareness or training, mostly bought from external vendors …

A rich literature has presented efficient techniques for estimating password strength by
modeling password-cracking algorithms. Unfortunately, these previous techniques only …

Phone numbers are intimately connected to our digital lives. People are increasingly
required to disclose their phone number in digital spaces, both commercial and personal …

In this article, we present a thorough evaluation of semantic password grammars. We report
multifactorial experiments that test the impact of sample size, probability smoothing, and …

Passwords are the de facto standard for online authentication today, and will likely remain
so for the foreseeable future. As a consequence, the security community has extensively …

Even though several authentication methods exist, passwords remain the most common
type of authentication. Researchers have demonstrated the influence of a person's …

Authentication is an important measure for protecting personal and sensitive information
from unauthorised access. Password authentication still is the most widely used form of …

Text password has served as the most popular method for user authentication so far, and is
not likely to be totally replaced in foreseeable future. Password authentication offers several …