As an essential tool in security, the intrusion detection system bears the responsibility of the
defense to network attacks performed by malicious traffic. Nowadays, with the help of …

The security of passwords depends on a thorough understanding of the strategies used by
attackers. Unfortunately, real-world adversaries use pragmatic guessing tactics like …

Reproducibility is crucial to the advancement of science; it strengthens confidence in
seemingly contradictory results and expands the boundaries of known discoveries …

Recently, many password guessing algorithms have been proposed, seriously threatening
cyber security. In this paper, we systematically review over thirty methods for password …

Textual password security hinges on the guessing models adopted by attackers, in which a
suitable password composition representation is an influential factor. Unfortunately, the …

Credential-guessing attacks often exploit passwords that were reused across a user's online
accounts. To learn how organizations can better protect users, we retrospectively analyzed …

Passwords play a crucial role in authentication, ensuring that only authorised entities can
access sensitive information. However, user password choices are often weak and …

Password guessing attacks, prevalent issues in the real world, can be conceptualized as
efforts to approximate the probability distribution of text tokens. Techniques in the natural …

Large language models (LLMs) successfully model natural language from vast amounts of
text without the need for explicit supervision. In this paper, we investigate the efficacy of …

Password security hinges on an in-depth understanding of the techniques adopted by
attackers. Unfortunately, real-world adversaries resort to pragmatic guessing strategies such …