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Credential stuffing attacks use stolen passwords to log into victim accounts. To defend against these attacks, recently deployed compromised credential checking (C3) services provide APIs that help users and companies check whether a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Bijeeta Pal , Mazharul Islam , Marina Sanusi , Nick Sullivan , Luke Valenta , Tara Whalen , Christopher Wood , Thomas Ristenpart , Rahul Chattejee

Hardening is the process of configuring IT systems to ensure the security of the systems' components and data they process or store. The complexity of contemporary IT infrastructures, however, renders manual security hardening and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Patrick Stöckle , Bernd Grobauer , Alexander Pretschner

Although passwords remain the primary defense against unauthorized access, users often tend to use passwords that are easy to remember. This behavior significantly increases security risks, also due to the fact that traditional password…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Maurizio Atzori , Eleonora Calò , Loredana Caruccio , Stefano Cirillo , Giuseppe Polese , Giandomenico Solimando

Cloud data storage solutions offer customers cost-effective and reduced data management. While attractive, data security issues remain to be a core concern. Traditional encryption protects stored documents, but hinders simple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Marc Damie , Florian Hahn , Andreas Peter

The most widespread type of phishing attack involves email messages with links pointing to malicious content. Despite user training and the use of detection techniques, these attacks are still highly effective. Recent studies show that it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Daniele Lain , Yoshimichi Nakatsuka , Kari Kostiainen , Gene Tsudik , Srdjan Capkun

Unlike the Web where each web page has a global URL to reach, a specific "content page" inside a mobile app cannot be opened unless the user explores the app with several operations from the landing page. Recently, deep links have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Yun Ma , Ziniu Hu , Dian Yang , Xuanzhe Liu

Malicious websites are responsible for a majority of the cyber-attacks and scams today. Malicious URLs are delivered to unsuspecting users via email, text messages, pop-ups or advertisements. Clicking on or crawling such URLs can result in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Apoorva Joshi , Levi Lloyd , Paul Westin , Srini Seethapathy

The Internet is used by billions of users every day because it offers fast and free communication tools and platforms. Nevertheless, with this significant increase in usage, huge amounts of spam are generated every second, which wastes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Omar Husni Odeh , Anas Arram , Murad Njoum

Passwords remain the most widely used form of user authentication, despite advancements in other methods. However, their limitations, such as susceptibility to attacks, especially weak passwords defined by human users, are well-documented.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Sam Parker , Haiyue Yuan , Shujun Li

Multi-Factor Authentication is intended to strengthen the security of password-based authentication by adding another factor, such as hardware tokens or one-time passwords using mobile apps. However, this increased authentication security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Sabrina Amft , Sandra Höltervennhoff , Nicolas Huaman , Alexander Krause , Lucy Simko , Yasemin Acar , Sascha Fahl

Password authentication using Hopfield Networks is presented in this paper. In this paper we discussed the Hopfield Network Scheme for Textual and graphical passwords, for which input Password will be converted in to probabilistic values.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-07 ASN Chakravarthy , P S Avadhani , P. E. S. N Krishna Prasad , N. Rajeevand , D. Rajasekhar Reddy

Phishing attacks are the most common type of cyber-attacks used to obtain sensitive information and have been affecting individuals as well as organisations across the globe. Various techniques have been proposed to identify the phishing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Sohail Ahmed Khan , Wasiq Khan , Abir Hussain

Phishing is an increasingly sophisticated form of cyberattack that is inflicting huge financial damage to corporations throughout the globe while also jeopardizing individuals' privacy. Attackers are constantly devising new methods of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Asif Newaz , Farhan Shahriyar Haq , Nadim Ahmed

The average user has between 90-130 online accounts, and around $3 \times 10^{11}$ passwords are in use this year. Most people are terrible at remembering "random" passwords, so they reuse or create similar passwords using a combination of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Ruthu Hulikal Rooparaghunath , T. S. Harikrishnan , Debayan Gupta

Credential compromise is hard to detect and hard to mitigate. To address this problem, we present larch, an accountable authentication framework with strong security and privacy properties. Larch protects user privacy while ensuring that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Emma Dauterman , Danny Lin , Henry Corrigan-Gibbs , David Mazières

The paper presents a flexible and efficient method to secure the access to a Web site implemented in PHP script language. The algorithm is based on the PHP session mechanism. The proposed method is a general one and offers the possibility…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Ioan Filip , Iosif Szeidert , Cristian Vasar

Coding agents, which are LLM-driven agents specialized in software development, have become increasingly prevalent in modern programming environments. Unlike traditional AI coding assistants, which offer simple code completion and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Eunkyu Lee , Donghyeon Kim , Wonyoung Kim , Insu Yun

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are a main impendence in cyber security of computer networks. In 2015, a successful breach remains undetected 146 days on average, reported by [Fi16].With our work we demonstrate a feasible and fast way to…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Timo Schindler

The obstacles of each security system combined with the increase of cyber-attacks, negatively affect the effectiveness of network security management and rise the activities to be taken by the security staff and network administrators. So,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Mamoon A. Al Jbaar , Adel Jalal Yousif , Qutaiba I. Ali

Users can divulge sensitive information to proprietary LLM providers, raising significant privacy concerns. While open-source models, hosted locally on the user's machine, alleviate some concerns, models that users can host locally are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Li Siyan , Vethavikashini Chithrra Raghuram , Omar Khattab , Julia Hirschberg , Zhou Yu