Today, digitalization decisively penetrates all the sides of the modern society. One of the key
enablers to maintain this process secure is authentication. It covers many different areas of a …

Users often make passwords that are easy for attackers to guess. Prior studies have
documented features that lead to easily guessed passwords, but have not probed why users …

Smartphones are the most popular and widespread personal devices. Apart from their
conventional use, that is, calling and texting, they have also been used to perform multiple …

Facial recognition technologies are implemented in many areas, including but not limited to,
citizen surveillance, crime control, activity monitoring, and facial expression evaluation …

Although many users create predictable passwords, the extent to which users realize these
passwords are predictable is not well understood. We investigate the relationship between …

There is a growing need for usable and secure authentication in immersive virtual reality
(VR). Established concepts (eg, 2D authentication schemes) are vulnerable to observation …

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 …

Recent research has improved our understanding of how to create strong, memorable text
passwords. However, this research has generally been in the context of desktops and …

Due to the prevalence of online services in modern society, such as internet banking and
social media, it is important for users to have an understanding of basic security measures in …

Smartphones today store large amounts of data that can be confidential, private or sensitive.
To protect such data, all mobile OSs have a phone lock mechanism, a mechanism that …