Abstract Introduction: The increasingly integrated Industrial IoT (IIoT) with industrial systems
brings benefits such as intelligent analytics, predictive maintenance, and remote monitoring …

The majority of Ethical Hacking (EH) tools utilised in penetration testing are developed by
practitioners within the industry or underground communities. Similarly, academic …

State-of-the-art password guessing tools, such as HashCat and John the Ripper, enable
users to check billions of passwords per second against password hashes. In addition to …

Human-chosen text passwords, today's dominant form of authentication, are vulnerable to
guessing attacks. Unfortunately, existing approaches for evaluating password strength by …

Parameterized password guessability—how many guesses a particular cracking algorithm
with particular training data would take to guess a password—has become a common metric …

Password strength meters are an important tool to help users choose secure passwords.
Strength meters can only then provide reasonable guidance when they are accurate, ie …

Passwords are used for user authentication by almost every Internet service today, despite a
number of wellknown weaknesses. Numerous attempts to replace passwords have failed, in …

Learning useful representations from unstructured data is one of the core challenges, as
well as a driving force, of modern data-driven approaches. Deep learning has demonstrated …

Despite their well-known security problems, passwords are still the incumbent authentication
method for virtually all online services. To remedy the situation, users are very often referred …

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