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Strong passwords are fundamental to the security of password-based user authentication systems. In recent years, much effort has been made to evaluate password strength or to generate strong passwords. Unfortunately, the usability or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Yao Cheng , Chang Xu , Zhen Hai , Yingjiu Li

"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

Robust speaker recognition, including in the presence of malicious attacks, is becoming increasingly important and essential, especially due to the proliferation of several smart speakers and personal agents that interact with an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Arindam Jati , Chin-Cheng Hsu , Monisankha Pal , Raghuveer Peri , Wael AbdAlmageed , Shrikanth Narayanan

Today, offline attacks are one of the most severe threats to password security. These attacks have claimed millions of passwords from prominent websites including Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter, Sony, Adobe and many more. Therefore, as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Harshal Tupsamudre , Sachin Lodha

Machine learning techniques are currently used extensively for automating various cybersecurity tasks. Most of these techniques utilize supervised learning algorithms that rely on training the algorithm to classify incoming data into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Prithviraj Dasgupta , Joseph B. Collins

Deep learning solutions are instrumental in cybersecurity, harnessing their ability to analyze vast datasets, identify complex patterns, and detect anomalies. However, malevolent actors can exploit these capabilities to orchestrate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Shalini Saini , Anitha Chennamaneni , Babatunde Sawyerr

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

Although it is common for users to select bad passwords that can be easily cracked by attackers, password-based authentication remains the most widely-used method. To encourage users to select good passwords, enterprises often enforce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Cem S. Sahin , Robert Lychev , Neal Wagner

As the primary mechanism of digital authentication, user-created passwords exhibit common patterns and regularities that can be learned from leaked datasets. Password choices are profoundly shaped by external factors, including social…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xudong Yang , Jincheng Li , Kaiwen Xing , Zhenjia Xiao , Mingjian Duan , Weili Han , Hu Xiong

An adversarial attack paradigm explores various scenarios for the vulnerability of deep learning models: minor changes of the input can force a model failure. Most of the state of the art frameworks focus on adversarial attacks for images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 I. Fursov , A. Zaytsev , N. Kluchnikov , A. Kravchenko , E. Burnaev

Deep learning has emerged as a strong and efficient framework that can be applied to a broad spectrum of complex learning problems which were difficult to solve using the traditional machine learning techniques in the past. In the last few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Anirban Chakraborty , Manaar Alam , Vishal Dey , Anupam Chattopadhyay , Debdeep Mukhopadhyay

Honeywords are decoy passwords that can be added to a credential database; if a login attempt uses a honeyword, this indicates that the site's credential database has been leaked. In this paper we explore the basic requirements for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Zonghao Huang , Lujo Bauer , Michael K. Reiter

We introduce password strength information signaling as a novel, yet counter-intuitive, defense mechanism against password cracking attacks. Recent breaches have exposed billions of user passwords to the dangerous threat of offline password…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Wenjie Bai , Jeremiah Blocki , Ben Harsha

Machine learning-based cybersecurity systems are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, while Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) act as both powerful attack enablers and promising defenses. This survey systematically reviews…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Tharcisse Ndayipfukamiye , Jianguo Ding , Doreen Sebastian Sarwatt , Adamu Gaston Philipo , Huansheng Ning

Deep neural networks have been demonstrated to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where small perturbations intentionally added to the original inputs can fool the classifier. In this paper, we propose a defense method, Featurized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Ruying Bao , Sihang Liang , Qingcan Wang

A central challenge in password security is to characterize the attacker's guessing curve i.e., what is the probability that the attacker will crack a random user's password within the first $G$ guesses. A key challenge is that the guessing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Jeremiah Blocki , Peiyuan Liu

Machine learning models have made many decision support systems to be faster, more accurate, and more efficient. However, applications of machine learning in network security face a more disproportionate threat of active adversarial attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Olakunle Ibitoye , Rana Abou-Khamis , Mohamed el Shehaby , Ashraf Matrawy , M. Omair Shafiq

For the time being, mobile devices employ implicit authentication mechanisms, namely, unlock patterns, PINs or biometric-based systems such as fingerprint or face recognition. While these systems are prone to well-known attacks, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Cezara Benegui , Radu Tudor Ionescu

As the number and complexity of malware attacks continue to increase, there is an urgent need for effective malware detection systems. While deep learning models are effective at detecting malware, they are vulnerable to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Mahesh Datta Sai Ponnuru , Likhitha Amasala , Tanu Sree Bhimavarapu , Guna Chaitanya Garikipati

Considering computer systems, security is the major concern with usability. Security policies need to be developed to protect information from unauthorized access. Passwords and secrete codes used between users and information systems for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-02-27 Sharayu A. Aghav , RajneeshKaur Bedi