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SEC
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Protecting Financial Institutions from Brute-Force Attacks
We examine the problem of protecting online banking accounts from password brute-forcing attacks. Our method is to create a large number of honeypot userID-password pairs. Presenta...
Cormac Herley, Dinei A. F. Florêncio
ACNS
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Strengthening Password-Based Authentication Protocols Against Online Dictionary Attacks
Passwords are one of the most common cause of system break-ins, because the low entropy of passwords makes systems vulnerable to brute force guessing attacks (dictionary attacks). ...
Peng Wang, Yongdae Kim, Vishal Kher, Taekyoung Kwo...
DICTA
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Biometric Based Cryptographic Key Generation from Faces
Existing asymmetric encryption algorithms require the storage of the secret private key. Stored keys are often protected by poorly selected user passwords that can either be guess...
B. Chen, V. Chandran
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A convenient method for securely managing passwords
Computer users are asked to generate, keep secret, and recall an increasing number of passwords for uses including host accounts, email servers, e-commerce sites, and online finan...
J. Alex Halderman, Brent Waters, Edward W. Felten
HICSS
2007
IEEE
131views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
The Use of Attack and Protection Trees to Analyze Security for an Online Banking System
Online banking has become increasingly important to the profitability of financial institutions as well as adding convenience for their customers. As the number of customers using...
Kenneth S. Edge, Richard A. Raines, Michael R. Gri...