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 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 …

The CyBOK project would like to understand how the CyBOK is being used and its uptake.
The project would like organisations using, or intending to use, CyBOK for the purposes of …

Learning useful representations from unstructured data is one of the core challenges, as
well as a driving force, of modern data-driven approaches. Deep learning has demonstrated …

We provide the first comprehensive study of user-chosen 4-and 6-digit PINs (n= 1220)
collected on smartphones with participants being explicitly primed for device unlocking. We …

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 …

Passwords play a crucial role in authentication, ensuring that only authorised entities can
access sensitive information. However, user password choices are often weak and …

Textual password security hinges on the guessing models adopted by attackers, in which a
suitable password composition representation is an influential factor. Unfortunately, the …

Honeywords are decoy passwords associated with each user account to timely detect
password leakage. The key issue lies in how to generate honeywords that are hard to be …

To help users create stronger passwords, nearly every respectable web service adopts a
password strength meter (PSM) to provide real-time strength feedback upon user …