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Online controlled experiments are a crucial tool to allow for confident decision-making in technology companies. A North Star metric is defined (such as long-term revenue or user retention), and system variants that statistically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Olivier Jeunen , Aleksei Ustimenko

"Honeywords" have emerged as a promising defense mechanism for detecting data breaches and foiling offline dictionary attacks (ODA) by deceiving attackers with false passwords. In this paper, we propose PassFilter, a novel deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Jimmy Dani , Brandon McCulloh , Nitesh Saxena

The privacy of personal information is an important issue affecting the confidence of internet users. The widespread adoption of online social networks and access to these platforms using mobile devices has encouraged developers to make the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-07-17 Nahier Aldhafferi , Charles Watson , A. S. M Sajeev

Recently, authenticating users with the help of their friends (i.e., trustee-based social authentication) has been shown to be a promising backup authentication mechanism. A user in this system is associated with a few trustees that were…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Di Wang

We propose a framework by which websites can coordinate to detect credential stuffing on individual user accounts. Our detection algorithm teases apart normal login behavior (involving password reuse, entering correct passwords into the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Ke Coby Wang , Michael K. Reiter

A string is sent over a noisy channel that erases some of its characters. Knowing the statistical properties of the string's source and which characters were erased, a listener that is equipped with an ability to test the veracity of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Mark M. Christiansen , Ken R. Duffy , Flavio du Pin Calmon , Muriel Medard

Song \cite{Song10} proposed very recently a password-based authentication and key establishment protocol using smart cards which attempts to solve some weaknesses found in a previous scheme suggested by Xu, Zhu, and Feng \cite{XZF09}. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-11-14 Juan E. Tapiador , Julio C. Hernandez-Castro , P. Peris-Lopez , John A. Clark

Deep neural networks have become widely used, obtaining remarkable results in domains such as computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, audio recognition, social network filtering, machine translation, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Divya Gopinath , Guy Katz , Corina S. Pasareanu , Clark Barrett

The security attitudes and approaches of software developers have a large impact on the software they produce, yet we know very little about how and when these views are constructed. This paper investigates the security and privacy (S&P)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Mohammad Tahaei , Adam Jenkins , Kami Vaniea , Maria Wolters

Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) represent the most used system for withdrawing cash. The European Central Bank reported more than 11 billion cash withdrawals and loading/unloading transactions on the European ATMs in 2019. Although ATMs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Matteo Cardaioli , Stefano Cecconello , Mauro Conti , Simone Milani , Stjepan Picek , Eugen Saraci

This paper examines the complex nature of cyber attacks through an analysis of the LastPass breach. It argues for the integration of human-centric considerations into cybersecurity measures, focusing on mitigating factors such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Niroop Sugunaraj

The rapid integration of AI-powered coding assistants into developer workflows has raised significant privacy and trust concerns. As developers entrust proprietary code to services like OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, and GitHub Copilot, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Amir AL-Maamari

Managing passwords securely and conveniently is still an open problem for many users. Existing research has examined users' password management strategies and identified pain points, such as security concerns, leading to insecure practices.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Alexander Ponticello , Filipo Sharevski , Simon Anell , Katharina Krombholz

Many recent works have proposed methods to train classifiers with local robustness properties, which can provably eliminate classes of evasion attacks for most inputs, but not all inputs. Since data distribution shift is very common in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Yizheng Chen , Shiqi Wang , Yue Qin , Xiaojing Liao , Suman Jana , David Wagner

Encryption study basically deals with three levels of algorithms. The first algorithm deals with encryption mechanism, second deals with decryption Mechanism and the third discusses about the generation of keys and sub keys used in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Addepalli V. N Krishna , A Vinay Babu

In today's world password compromise by some adversaries is common for different purpose. In ICC 2008 Lei et al. proposed a new user authentication system based on the virtual password system. In virtual password system they have used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-03-22 Bhavin Tanti , Nishant Doshi

Data security, which is concerned with the prevention of unauthorized access to computers, databases, and websites, helps protect digital privacy and ensure data integrity. It is extremely difficult, however, to make security watertight,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Marten Lohstroh

Risk-based Authentication (RBA) is an adaptive security measure that improves the security of password-based authentication by protecting against credential stuffing, password guessing, or phishing attacks. RBA monitors extra features…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Stephan Wiefling , Tanvi Patil , Markus Dürmuth , Luigi Lo Iacono

The smart card based authentication protocols try to ensure secure and authorized communication between remote entities. In 2012, Wei et al. presented an improvement of Wu et al.'s two-factor authentication scheme for TMIS which is proven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-12-18 Dheerendra Mishra , Ankita Chaturvedi , Sourav Mukhopadhyay

Modern web traffic relies on 2048-bit RSA encryption to secure our data in transit. Rapid advances in Quantum Computing pose a grave challenge by allowing hackers to break this encryption in hours. In August of 2024, the National Institute…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Ananya Tadepalli