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The average user has between 90-130 online accounts, and around $3 \times 10^{11}$ passwords are in use this year. Most people are terrible at remembering "random" passwords, so they reuse or create similar passwords using a combination of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Ruthu Hulikal Rooparaghunath , T. S. Harikrishnan , Debayan Gupta

Even though passwords are the most convenient means of authentication, they bring along themselves the threat of dictionary attacks. Dictionary attacks may be of two kinds: online and offline. While offline dictionary attacks are possible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-11-17 Vipul Goyal , Virendra Kumar , Mayank Singh , Ajith Abraham , Sugata Sanyal

Password managers are important tools that enable us to use stronger passwords, freeing us from the cognitive burden of remembering them. Despite this, there are still many users who do not fully trust password managers. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Miguel Grilo , João F. Ferreira , José Bacelar Almeida

Large-scale password data breaches are becoming increasingly commonplace, which has enabled researchers to produce a substantial body of password security research utilising real-world password datasets, which often contain numbers of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Saul Johnson , João Ferreira , Alexandra Mendes , Julien Cordry

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

Cybersecurity threats continue to increase, with a growing number of previously unknown attacks each year targeting both large corporations and smaller entities. This scenario demands the implementation of advanced security measures, not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Javier Jiménez-Román , Florina Almenares-Mendoza , Alfonso Sánchez-Macián

In the field of network security, with the ongoing arms race between attackers, seeking new vulnerabilities to bypass defense mechanisms and defenders reinforcing their prevention, detection and response strategies, the novel concept of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Daniel Reti , Karina Elzer , Daniel Fraunholz , Daniel Schneider , Hans-Dieter Schotten

Despite numerous countermeasures proposed by practitioners and researchers, remote control-flow alteration of programs with memory-safety vulnerabilities continues to be a realistic threat. Guaranteeing that complex software is completely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Martín Ochoa , Sebastian Banescu , Cynthia Disenfeld , Gilles Barthe , Vijay Ganesh

In recent years, the attack which leverages register information (e.g. accounts and passwords) leaked from 3rd party applications to try other applications is popular and serious. We call this attack "database collision". Traditionally,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Bo Zhao , Yu Zhou

Honeyfiles are security assets designed to attract and detect intruders on compromised systems. Honeyfiles are a type of honeypot that mimic real, sensitive documents, creating the illusion of the presence of valuable data. Interaction with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 David D. Nguyen , David Liebowitz , Surya Nepal , Salil S. Kanhere , Sharif Abuadbba

We introduce quantitative usability and security models to guide the design of password management schemes --- systematic strategies to help users create and remember multiple passwords. In the same way that security proofs in cryptography…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Jeremiah Blocki , Manuel Blum , Anupam Datta

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

Reusing passwords across multiple websites is a common practice that compromises security. Recently, Blum and Vempala have proposed password strategies to help people calculate, in their heads, passwords for different sites without…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Samira Samadi , Santosh Vempala , Adam Tauman Kalai

Active Directory (AD) is a crucial element of large organizations, given its central role in managing access to resources. Since AD is used by all users in the organization, it is hard to detect attackers. We propose to generate and place…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Ondrej Lukas , Sebastian Garcia

Although there have been many solutions applied, the safety challenges related to the password security mechanism are not reduced. The reason for this is that while the means and tools to support password attacks are becoming more and more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Nguyen Hong Son , Ha Thanh Dung

The last years of the 20 th century and the beginning of the 21 th mark the facilitation trend of our real life due to the big development and progress of the computers and other intelligent devices. Algorithms based on artificial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Desislav Andreev , Simona Petrakieva , Ina Taralova

Due to its hereditary nature, genomic data is not only linked to its owner but to that of close relatives as well. As a result, its sensitivity does not really degrade over time; in fact, the relevance of a genomic sequence is likely to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Bristena Oprisanu , Christophe Dessimoz , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Fooling adversaries with traps such as honeytokens can slow down cyber attacks and create strong indicators of compromise. Unfortunately, cyber deception techniques are often poorly specified. Also, realistically measuring their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Mario Kahlhofer , Stefan Achleitner , Stefan Rass , René Mayrhofer

Recent studies have revealed a security threat to natural language processing (NLP) models, called the Backdoor Attack. Victim models can maintain competitive performance on clean samples while behaving abnormally on samples with a specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Wenkai Yang , Lei Li , Zhiyuan Zhang , Xuancheng Ren , Xu Sun , Bin He

Credential theft and remote attacks are the most serious threats to user authentication mechanisms. The crux of these problems is that we cannot control such behaviors. However, if a password does not contain user secrets, stealing it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Suyun Borjigin