Phishing is a form of deception technique that attackers often use to acquire sensitive
information related to individuals and organizations fraudulently. Although Phishing attacks …

Password reuse and modification are insecure password behaviors that are becoming
increasingly prevalent as users are obliged to remember more passwords to access various …

Extended Reality (XR) is increasingly gaining momentum in industries such as retail, health,
and education. To protect users' personal data, establishing a secure authentication system …

Fallback authentication, the process of re-establishing access to an account when the
primary authenticator is unavailable, holds critical significance. Approaches range from …

Security policies of authentication systems are a crucial factor in mitigating the risk of
impersonation, which is often the first stage of advanced persistent threats. Online …

Over the last decade, technological advances in smart grids have permitted the
modernization of legacy electricity networks. As Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart grids …

When adopted by the W3C in 2019, the FIDO2 standard for passwordless authentication
was touted as a replacement for passwords on the web. With FIDO2, users leverage …

Users tend to create weak passwords even for the important accounts. The prior research
shed light on user's insecure password behavior, and why the interventions, including …

Using the computational resources of an untrusted third party to crack a password hash can
pose a high number of privacy and security risks. The act of revealing the hash digest could …

Two-factor authentication provides a strong defense against account compromise. However,
traditional two-factor authentication schemes cannot provide users with much flexibility and …