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Decoy passwords, or ``honeywords,'' alert a site to its breach if entered in a login attempt on that site. However, an attacker can identify a user-chosen password from among the decoys, without alerting the site to its breach, via…

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In the realm of cybersecurity, phishing stands as a prevalent cyber attack, where attackers employ various tactics to deceive users into gathering their sensitive information, potentially leading to identity theft or financial gain.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Aditya Kulkarni , Vivek Balachandran , Tamal Das

Passwords remain one of the most common methods for securing sensitive data in the digital age. However, weak password choices continue to pose significant risks to data security and privacy. This study aims to solve the problem by focusing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Pappu Jha , Hanzla Hamid , Oluseyi Olukola , Ashim Dahal , Nick Rahimi

Recently, we can observe a significant increase of the phishing attacks in the Internet. In a typical phishing attack, the attacker sets up a malicious website that looks similar to the legitimate website in order to obtain the end-users'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zijiang Yang

It is well-known that most users do not read privacy policies, but almost all users tick the box to agree with them. In this paper, we analyze the 25-year history of privacy policies using methods from transparency research, machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Isabel Wagner

Cybersecurity practices require effort to be maintained, and one weakness is a lack of awareness regarding potential attacks not only in the usage of machine learning models, but also in their development process. Previous studies have…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Devon A. Kelly , Sarah A. Flanery , Christiana Chamon

The increasing popularity of social media has attracted a huge number of people to participate in numerous activities on a daily basis. This results in tremendous amounts of rich user-generated data. This data provides opportunities for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Ghazaleh Beigi , Huan Liu

Security patterns are a means to encapsulate and communicate proven security solutions. They are well-established approaches for introducing security into the software development process. Our objective is to explore the research efforts on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Abbas Javan Jafari , Abbas Rasoolzadegan

Dependence on information, including for some of the world's largest organisations such as governments and multi-national corporations, has grown rapidly in recent years. However, reports of information security breaches and their…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Craig A. Horne , Atif Ahmad , Sean B. Maynard

Based on Irish older adult's perceptions, practices, and challenges regarding password management, the goal of this study was to compile suitable advice that can benefit this demographic. To achieve this, we first conducted semi structured…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Ashley Sheil , Jacob Camilleri , Michelle O'Keeffe , Melanie Gruben , Moya Cronin , Hazel Murray

Passwords remain the most widely used form of user authentication, despite advancements in other methods. However, their limitations, such as susceptibility to attacks, especially weak passwords defined by human users, are well-documented.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Sam Parker , Haiyue Yuan , Shujun Li

Web services are important in the processing of personal data in the World Wide Web. In light of recent data protection regulations, this processing raises a question about consent or other basis of legal processing. While a consent must be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Kalle Hjerppe , Jukka Ruohonen , Ville Leppänen

Password security plays a crucial role in cybersecurity, yet traditional password strength meters, which rely on static rules like character-type requirements, often fail. Such methods are easily bypassed by common password patterns (e.g.,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Muhammed El Mustaqeem Mazelan , Noor Hazlina Abdul , Nouar AlDahoul

The most common attacks against web sessions are reviewed in this paper, for example, some attacks against web browsers' honest users attempting to create session with trusted web browser application legally. We have assessed with four…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Md. Imtiaz Habib , Abdullah Al Maruf , Md. Jobair Ahmed Nabil

Leakage of confidential information represents a serious security risk. Despite a number of novel, theoretical advances, it has been unclear if and how quantitative approaches to measuring leakage of confidential information could be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-07-07 Jonathan Heusser , Pasquale Malacaria

Background. In recent years, cyber security security user studies have been appraised in meta-research, mostly focusing on the completeness of their statistical inferences and the fidelity of their statistical reporting. However, estimates…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Thomas Groß

Privacy policies are expected to inform data subjects about their data protection rights and should explain the data controller's data management practices. Privacy policies only fulfill their purpose, if they are correctly interpreted,…

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In today's world, Web applications play a very important role in individual life as well as in any country's development. Web applications have gone through a very rapid growth in the recent years and their adoption is moving faster than…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-18 Diallo Abdoulaye Kindy , Al-Sakib Khan Pathan

With the latest developments in technology, extra and extra human beings depend on their private gadgets to keep their touchy information. Concurrently, the surroundings in which these gadgets are linked have grown to grow to be greater…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Rushit Dave

A wide variety of privacy metrics have been proposed in the literature to evaluate the level of protection offered by privacy enhancing-technologies. Most of these metrics are specific to concrete systems and adversarial models, and are…

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