Survey and taxonomy of adversarial reconnaissance techniques

S Roy, N Sharmin, JC Acosta, C Kiekintveld… - ACM Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Adversaries are often able to penetrate networks and compromise systems by exploiting
vulnerabilities in people and systems. The key to the success of these attacks is information …

" Would you give the same priority to the bank and a game? I do {not!}" exploring credential management strategies and obstacles during password manager setup

S Klivan, S Höltervennhoff, N Huaman, Y Acar… - … Symposium on Usable …, 2023 - usenix.org
Password managers allow users to improve password security by handling large numbers of
strong and unique passwords without the burden of memorizing them. While users are …

They would do better if they worked together: The case of interaction problems between password managers and websites

N Huaman, S Amft, M Oltrogge… - 2021 IEEE Symposium …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Password managers are tools to support users with the secure generation and storage of
credentials and logins used in online accounts. Previous work illustrated that building …

Password managers—it's all about trust and transparency

F Alodhyani, G Theodorakopoulos, P Reinecke - Future Internet, 2020 - mdpi.com
A password is considered to be the first line of defence in protecting online accounts, but
there are problems when people handle their own passwords, for example, password reuse …

An empirical study of mnemonic sentence-based password generation strategies

W Yang, N Li, O Chowdhury, A Xiong… - Proceedings of the 2016 …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Mnemonic strategy has been recommended to help users generate secure and memorable
passwords. We evaluated the security of 6 mnemonic strategy variants in a series of online …

Protecting users against xss-based password manager abuse

B Stock, M Johns - Proceedings of the 9th ACM symposium on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
To ease the burden of repeated password authentication on multiple sites, modern Web
browsers provide password managers, which offer to automatically complete password …

UniPass: design and evaluation of a smart device-based password manager for visually impaired users

NM Barbosa, J Hayes, Y Wang - … of the 2016 ACM international joint …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Visually impaired users face various challenges in web authentication. We designed
UniPass, an accessible password manager for visually impaired users based on a smart …

Using information from prior runs to improve automated tuning systems

IH Chung, JK Hollingsworth - SC'04: Proceedings of the 2004 …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Active Harmony is an automated runtime performance tuning system. In this paper we
describe a parameter prioritizing tool to help focus on those parameters that are …

[PDF][PDF] Security Analysis of Master-Password-Protected Password Management Protocols

Y Duan, D Wang, Y Fu - 2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and …, 2024 - researchgate.net
Password managers (PMs) are useful tools that help users manage their login credentials,
alleviating the burden of memorizing an ever-increasing number of passwords …

Toward a secure and usable cloud-based password manager for web browsers

R Zhao, C Yue - Computers & Security, 2014 - Elsevier
Web users are confronted with the daunting challenges of creating, remembering, and using
more and more strong passwords than ever before in order to protect their valuable assets …