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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

Phishing websites continue to pose a significant security challenge, making the development of robust detection mechanisms essential. Brand Domain Identification (BDI) serves as a crucial step in many phishing detection approaches. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Rina Mishra , Gaurav Varshney

Phishing is the simplest form of cybercrime with the objective of baiting people into giving away delicate information such as individually recognizable data, banking and credit card details, or even credentials and passwords. This type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Moitrayee Chatterjee , Akbar Siami Namin

This paper presents a method for detecting mispronunciations with the aim of improving Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) tools used by foreign language learners. The algorithm is based on Principle Component Analysis (PCA). It is…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Zhenhao Ge , Sudhendu R. Sharma , Mark J. T. Smith

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

Database fingerprinting have been widely adopted to prevent unauthorized sharing of data and identify the source of data leakages. Although existing schemes are robust against common attacks, like random bit flipping and subset attack,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Tianxi Ji , Emre Yilmaz , Erman Ayday , Pan Li

Passwords should be easy to remember, yet expiration policies mandate their frequent change. Caught in the crossfire between these conflicting requirements, users often adopt creative methods to perform slight variations over time. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Davide Berardi , Franco Callegati , Andrea Melis , Marco Prandini

The majority of systems rely on user authentication on passwords, but passwords have so many weaknesses and widespread use that easily raise significant security concerns, regardless of their encrypted form. Users hold the same password for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Vassilis Papaspirou , Leandros Maglaras , Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Ioanna Kantzavelou , Helge Janicke , Christos Douligeris

A variety of anomaly detection schemes have been proposed to detect malicious attacks to Cyber-Physical Systems. Among these schemes, Dynamic Watermarking methods have been proven highly effective at detecting a wide range of attacks.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Matthew Porter , Arnav Joshi , Pedro Hespanhol , Anil Aswani , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Ram Vasudevan

Reliability is one of the major design criteria in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs). This is because of the existence of some critical applications in CPSs and their failure is catastrophic. Therefore, employing strong error detection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Seyyedamirhossein Saeidi , Forouzan Fallah , Saeed Samieezafarghandi , Hamed Farbeh

Probabilistic password strength meters have been proved to be the most accurate tools to measure password strength. Unfortunately, by construction, they are limited to solely produce an opaque security estimation that fails to fully support…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Dario Pasquini , Giuseppe Ateniese , Massimo Bernaschi

Multi-frame detection algorithms can effectively utilize the correlation between consecutive echoes to improve the detection performance of weak targets. Existing efficient multi-frame detection algorithms are typically based on three…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Zhihao Lin , Chang Gao , Junkun Yan , Qingfu Zhang , Bo Chen , Hongwei Liu

In current web environment, fake news spreads rapidly across online social networks, posing serious threats to society. Existing multimodal fake news detection methods can generally be classified into knowledge-based and semantic-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xinqi Su , Zitong Yu , Yawen Cui , Ajian Liu , Xun Lin , Yuhao Wang , Haochen Liang , Wenhui Li , Li Shen , Xiaochun Cao

We present an in-depth analysis on the strength of the almost 10,000 passwords from users of an instant messaging server in Italy. We estimate the strength of those passwords, and compare the effectiveness of state-of-the-art attack methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-07-21 Matteo Dell'Amico , Pietro Michiardi , Yves Roudier

Software vulnerabilities are commonly exploited as attack vectors in cyberattacks. Hence, it is crucial to identify vulnerable software configurations early to apply preventive measures. Effective vulnerability detection relies on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Devesh Sawant , Manjesh K. Hanawal , Atul Kabra

Untrustworthy users can misuse image generators to synthesize high-quality deepfakes and engage in unethical activities. Watermarking deters misuse by marking generated content with a hidden message, enabling its detection using a secret…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Nils Lukas , Abdulrahman Diaa , Lucas Fenaux , Florian Kerschbaum

Automatically detecting software vulnerabilities in source code is an important problem that has attracted much attention. In particular, deep learning-based vulnerability detectors, or DL-based detectors, are attractive because they do not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Zhen Li , Jing Tang , Deqing Zou , Qian Chen , Shouhuai Xu , Chao Zhang , Yichen Li , Hai Jin

Modern business applications and scientific databases call for inherently dynamic data storage environments. Such environments are characterized by two challenging features: (a) they have little idle system time to devote on physical…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-02 Felix Halim , Stratos Idreos , Panagiotis Karras , Roland H. C. Yap

Passwords are the primary authentication method online, but even with password policies and meters, users still find it hard to create strong and memorable passwords. In this paper, we propose DPAR: a Data-driven PAssword Recommendation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Assaf Morag , Liron David , Eran Toch , Avishai Wool

The use of passwords and the need to protect passwords are not going away. The majority of websites that require authentication continue to support password authentication. Even high-security applications such as Internet Banking portals,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Teik Guan Tan , Pawel Szalachowski , Jianying Zhou