From the end of the last century to date, consumers are increasingly living their lives online.
In today's world, the average person spends a significant proportion of their time connecting …

Network and service management encompasses a set of activities, methods, procedures,
and tools, whose ultimate goal is to guarantee the proper functioning of a networked system …

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 …

Although many users create predictable passwords, the extent to which users realize these
passwords are predictable is not well understood. We investigate the relationship between …

Despite considerable research on passwords, empirical studies of password strength have
been limited by lack of access to plaintext passwords, small data sets, and password sets …

Despite their ubiquity, many password meters provide inaccurate strength estimates.
Furthermore, they do not explain to users what is wrong with their password or how to …

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 …

Password-composition policies are the result of service providers becoming increasingly
concerned about the security of online accounts. These policies restrict the space of user …

Users tend to create weak passwords even for the important accounts. The prior research
shed light on user's insecure password behavior, and why the interventions, including …

During software maintenance, testing is a crucial activity to ensure the quality of program
code as it evolves over time. With the increasing size and complexity of software, adequate …