In a model inversion attack, an adversary attempts to reconstruct the training data records of
a target model using only the model's output. In launching a contemporary model inversion …

Honeyword (or decoy password) based authentication, first introduced by Juels and Rivest
in 2013, has emerged as a security mechanism that can provide security against server-side …

To help users create stronger passwords, nearly every respectable web service adopts a
password strength meter (PSM) to provide real-time strength feedback upon user …

Passwords are the most widely used authentication method, and guessing attacks are the
most effective method for password strength evaluation. However, existing password …

Honeywords are fictitious passwords inserted into databases in order to identify password
breaches. The major challenge is producing honeywords that are difficult to distinguish from …

While password stuffing attacks (that exploit the direct password reuse behavior) have
gained considerable attention, only a few studies have examined password tweaking …

Honeywords are decoy passwords that can be added to a credential database; if a login
attempt uses a honeyword, this indicates that the site's credential database has been …

Cloud storage provides an efficient and convenient way to manage data, but it also poses
significant challenges to data security. The central issue with cloud storage is to ensure the …

In the field of information security, there has been a noteworthy trend toward leveraging
machine learning models to develop and exploit security solutions. The emergence of …

We introduce the concept of" universal password model"--a password model that, once pre-
trained, can automatically adapt its guessing strategy based on the target system. To …