A large proportion of dryland trees and shrubs (hereafter referred to collectively as trees)
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Users are vital to the information security of organizations. In spite of technical safeguards,
users make many critical security decisions. An example is users' responses to security …

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 …

The state of advice given to people today on how to stay safe online has plenty of room for
improvement. Too many things are asked of them, which may be unrealistic, time …

Managing passwords is a difficult task for users, who must create, remember, and keep track
of large numbers of passwords. In this work, we investigated users' co** strategies for …

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use. Yet, users do not always have good password security practices, leaving their accounts …

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