Password authentication is still ubiquitous although alternatives have been developed to
overcome its shortcomings such as high cognitive load for users. Using an objective rating …

The development of technology and uses increases the interconnected digital ecosystem.
This is accompanied by dense data usage. Wherever digital data is available, cyber-attacks …

In this work we analyse five popular commercial password managers for security
vulnerabilities. Our analysis is twofold. First, we compile a list of previously disclosed …

Text-based passwords are a fundamental and popular means of authentication. Password
authentication can be simply implemented because it does not require any equipment …

The Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) algorithm is commonly used for two-factor
authentication. In this algorithm, a shared secret is used to derive a One-Time Password …

Because of the global increment of various computer implementation, the usage of the
internet has increased significantly. This phenomenon has mainly contributed to the growing …

Password authentication is vulnerable to dictionary attacks. Password strength
measurement helps users to choose hard-to-guess passwords and enhance the security of …

Pairs of usernames and passwords are widely used nowadays by mobile and web
applications to identify users. The exposure of this data harms both users and vendors. The …

Since passwords are an unavoidable mechanism for authenticating to online services,
experts often recommend using a password manager for better password security. However …

Enhanced Fuzzy K-Means clustering algorithm (EFKM henceforth). We train the EFKM on
the OWASP list of 10002 weak passwords. After that, we maximize the optimized centroids to …