Recent years have seen a proliferation of secure device pairing methods that try to improve both the usability and security of today's de-facto standard
Iulia Ion, Marc Langheinrich, Ponnurangam Kumaragu...
Home networks are common but notoriously difficult to setup and maintain. The difficulty users experience in setting up and maintaining their home network is problematic because o...
Social navigation is a promising approach to help users make better privacy and security decisions using community knowledge and expertise. Social navigation has recently been app...
Andrew Besmer, Jason Watson, Heather Richter Lipfo...
Text-based passwords are still the most commonly used authentication mechanism in information systems. We took advantage of a unique opportunity presented by a significant change...
Richard Shay, Saranga Komanduri, Patrick Gage Kell...
This paper explores user authentication schemes for banking systems implemented over mobile phone networks in the developing world. We analyze an authentication scheme currently d...
The principle of least privilege requires that users and their programs be granted the most restrictive set of privileges possible to perform required tasks in order to limit the ...
We examine the password policies of 75 different websites. Our goal is understand the enormous diversity of requirements: some will accept simple six-character passwords, while o...
Users of social networking sites often want to manage the sharing of information and content with different groups of people based on their differing relationships. However, group...
Policies which address security and privacy are pervasive parts of both technical and social systems, and technology to enable both organizations and individuals to create and man...
Maritza Johnson, John Karat, Clare-Marie Karat, Ke...
With the increase of automated teller machine (ATM) frauds, new authentication mechanisms are developed to overcome security problems of personal identification numbers (PIN). Th...
Alexander De Luca, Marc Langheinrich, Heinrich Hus...