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We draw on the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to design nudges that encourage users to change breached passwords. Our online experiment ($n$=$1,386$) compared the effectiveness of a threat appeal (highlighting negative consequences of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yixin Zou , Khue Le , Peter Mayer , Alessandro Acquisti , Adam J. Aviv , Florian Schaub

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

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

Nowadays, user authentication is one of the important topics in information security. Strong textbased password schemes could provide with certain degree of security. However, the fact that strong passwords are difficult to memorize often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Farnaz Towhidi , Maslin Masrom

User authentication is one of the most important part of information security. Computer security most commonly depends on passwords to authenticate human users. Password authentication systems will be either been usable but not secure, or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Gloriya Mathew , Shiney Thomas

Password authentication is a common approach to the system security and it is also a very important procedure to gain access to user resources. In the conventional password authentication methods a server has to authenticate the legitimate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-10-10 ASN Chakravarthy , Prof. P S Avadhani

Shoulder-surfing is a known risk where an attacker can capture a password by direct observation or by recording the authentication session. Due to the visual interface, this problem has become exacerbated in graphical passwords. There have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-13 Haichang Gao , Zhongjie Ren , Xiuling Chang , Xiyang Liu , Uwe Aickelin

Computer users are generally authenticated by means of a password. Unfortunately passwords are often forgotten and replacement is expensive and inconvenient. Some people write their passwords down but these records can easily be lost or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Tony McBryan , Karen Renaud , J. Paul Siebert

Information and computer security is supported largely by passwords which are the principle part of the authentication process. The most common computer authentication method is to use alphanumerical username and password which has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Arash Habibi Lashkari , Samaneh Farmand , Dr. Omar Bin Zakaria , Dr. Rosli Saleh

The major problem of user registration, mostly text base password, is well known. In the login user be inclined to select simple passwords which is frequently in mind that are straightforward for attackers to guess, difficult machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-15 Saraswati B. Sahu

Passwords provide security mechanism for authentication and protection services against unwanted access to resources. A graphical based password is one promising alternatives of textual passwords. According to human psychology, humans are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-10-19 Wazir Zada Khan , Mohammed Y. Aalsalem , Yang Xiang

Password authentication is a very important system security procedure to gain access to user resources. In the Traditional password authentication methods a server has check the authenticity of the users. In our proposed method users can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-12-13 A. S. N. Chakravarthy , Penmetsa V. Krishna Raja , Prof. P. S. Avadhani

Graphical passwords are implemented as an alternative scheme to replace alphanumeric passwords to help users to memorize their password. However, most of the graphical password systems are vulnerable to shoulder-surfing attack due to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Amanul Islam , Fazidah Othman , Nazmus Sakib , Hafiz Md. Hasan Babu

Classical techniques for protecting facial image privacy typically fall into two categories: data-poisoning methods, exemplified by Fawkes, which introduce subtle perturbations to images, or anonymization methods that generate images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Mariia Zameshina , Marlene Careil , Olivier Teytaud , Laurent Najman

Passwords remain a widely-used authentication mechanism, despite their well-known security and usability limitations. To improve on this situation, next-generation authentication mechanisms, based on behavioral biometric factors such as eye…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Matin Fallahi , Patricia Arias Cabarcos , Thorsten Strufe

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 the broad advantages of learning and harnessing such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Dario Pasquini , Ankit Gangwal , Giuseppe Ateniese , Massimo Bernaschi , Mauro Conti

Visual Generative AI models have demonstrated remarkable capability in generating high-quality images from user inputs like text prompts. However, because these models have billions of parameters, they risk memorizing certain parts of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Lena Reissinger , Yuanyuan Li , Anna-Carolina Haensch , Neeraj Sarna

Gesture and signature passwords are two-dimensional figures created by drawing on the surface of a touchscreen with one or more fingers. Prior results about their security have used resilience to either shoulder surfing, a human observation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Can Liu , Shridatt Sugrim , Gradeigh D. Clark , Janne Lindqvist

In this paper, we explore graphical passwords as a child-friendly alternative for user authentication. We evaluate the usability of three variants of the PassTiles graphical password scheme for children, and explore the similarities and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Hala Assal , Ahsan Imran , Sonia Chiasson

A common form of phishing training in organizations is the use of simulated phishing emails to test employees' susceptibility to phishing attacks, and the immediate delivery of training material to those who fail the test. This widespread…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Daniele Lain , Tarek Jost , Sinisa Matetic , Kari Kostiainen , Srdjan Capkun
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