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Neural code generation systems have recently attracted increasing attention to improve developer productivity and speed up software development. Typically, these systems maintain a pre-trained neural model and make it available to general…

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Usable and secure authentication on the web and beyond is mission-critical. While password-based authentication is still widespread, users have trouble dealing with potentially hundreds of online accounts and their passwords. Alternatives…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jan H. Klemmer , Marco Gutfleisch , Christian Stransky , Yasemin Acar , M. Angela Sasse , Sascha Fahl

Increasing number of cyber-attacks demotivate people to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for industrial as well as day to day work. A main reason for the increasing number of cyber-attacks is mistakes that programmers make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Chamila Wijayarathna , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

Mobile user interfaces abundantly feature so-called 'dark patterns'. These deceptive design practices manipulate users' decision making to profit online service providers. While past research on dark patterns mainly focus on visual design,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Chenge Tang , Karthikeya Puttur Venkatraj , Hongbo Liu , Christina Schneegass , Gijs Huisman , Abdallah El Ali

User-chosen passwords remain essential to online security, and yet people continue to choose weak, insecure passwords. In this work, we investigate whether prospect theory, a behavioral model of how people evaluate risk, can provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Eryn Ma , Summer Hasama , Eshaan Lumba , Eleanor Birrell

Existing question-answering research focuses on unanswerable questions in the context of always providing an answer when a system can\dots but what about cases where a system {\bf should not} answer a question. This can either be to protect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Nathaniel W. Rollings , Kent O'Sullivan , Sakshum Kulshrestha

Phishing is an online identity theft that aims to steal sensitive information such as username, password and online banking details from its victims. Phishing education needs to be considered as a means to combat this threat. This paper…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

It is important to design browser security and privacy alerts so as to maximise their value to the end user, and their efficacy in terms of communicating risk. We derived a list of design guidelines from the research literature by carrying…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Lynsay A. Shepherd , Karen Renaud

A lack of awareness surrounding secure online behaviour can lead to end-users, and their personal details becoming vulnerable to compromise. This paper describes an ongoing research project in the field of usable security, examining the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Lynsay A. Shepherd , Jacqueline Archibald

Authenticating websites is an ongoing problem for users. Recent proposals have suggested strengthening current server authentication methods by incorporating website location as a comprehensible additional trust factor. In this work, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Der-Yeuan Yu , Elizabeth Stobert , David Basin , Srdjan Capkun

Passwords, a first line of defense against unauthorized access, must be secure and memorable. However, people often struggle to create secure passwords they can recall. To address this problem, we design Password inspiration by eXploring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Shengqian Wang , Amirali Salehi-Abari , Julie Thorpe

Users often choose passwords that are easy to remember but also easy to guess by attackers. Recent studies have revealed the vulnerability of textual passwords to shoulder surfing and keystroke loggers. It remains a critical challenge in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen , S M Taiabul Haque , Matthew Wright

Designing secure information infrastructure is a function of design and usability. However, security is seldom given priority when systems are being developed. Secure design practices should balance between functionality (i.e., proper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Niroop Sugunaraj

Web password recovery, enabling a user who forgets their password to re-establish a shared secret with a website, is very widely implemented. However, use of such a fall-back system brings with it additional vulnerabilities to user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Fatma Al Maqbali , Chris J Mitchell

Among the various means of available resource protection including biometrics, password based system is most simple, user friendly, cost effective and commonly used. But this method having high sensitivity with attacks. Most of the advanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-10-13 Manoj Kumar Singh

User interface personalization enhances digital efficiency, usability, and accessibility. However, in user-driven setups, limited support for identifying and evaluating worthwhile opportunities often leads to underuse. We explore a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sérgio Alves , Carlos Duarte , Kyle Montague , Tiago Guerreiro

Many password alternatives for web authentication proposed over the years, despite having different designs and objectives, all predominantly rely on the knowledge of some secret. This motivates us, herein, to provide the first detailed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Furkan Alaca , AbdelRahman Abdou , Paul C. van Oorschot

Mobile access to information is a considerable problem for many users, especially to information found on the Web. In this paper, we explore how a voice-controlled service, accessible by telephone, could support mobile users' needs for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Robert G. Capra , Manuel A. Perez-Quinones

Recent research studies revealed that neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. State-of-the-art defensive techniques add various adversarial examples in training to improve models' adversarial robustness. However, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Chang Song , Zuoguan Wang , Hai Li

The design of authentication protocols, for online banking services in particular and any service that is of sensitive nature in general, is quite challenging. Indeed, enforcing security guarantees has overhead thus imposing additional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-12-13 DaeHun Nyang , Abedelaziz Mohaisen , Taekyoung Kwon , Brent Kang , Angelos Stavrou