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SOUPS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Seeing further: extending visualization as a basis for usable security
The focus of our approach to the usability considerations of privacy and security has been on providing people with information they can use to understand the implications of thei...
Jennifer Ann Rode, Carolina Johansson, Paul DiGioi...
SOUPS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Protecting domestic power-line communications
– In this paper we describe the protection goals and mechanisms in HomePlug AV, a next-generation power-line communications standard. This is a fascinating case-history in securi...
Richard E. Newman, Sherman Gavette, Larry Yonge, R...
SOUPS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Human selection of mnemonic phrase-based passwords
Textual passwords are often the only mechanism used to authenticate users of a networked system. Unfortunately, many passwords are easily guessed or cracked. In an attempt to stre...
Cynthia Kuo, Sasha Romanosky, Lorrie Faith Cranor
SOUPS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
The methodology and an application to fight against Unicode attacks
Unicode is becoming a dominant character representation format for information processing. This presents a very dangerous usability and security problem for many applications. The...
Anthony Y. Fu, Xiaotie Deng, Liu Wenyin, Greg Litt...
SOUPS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
An empirical study of natural language parsing of privacy policy rules using the SPARCLE policy workbench
Today organizations do not have good ways of linking their written privacy policies with the implementation of those policies. To assist organizations in addressing this issue, ou...
Carolyn Brodie, Clare-Marie Karat, John Karat
SOUPS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A comparison of perceived and real shoulder-surfing risks between alphanumeric and graphical passwords
Previous research has found graphical passwords to be more memorable than non-dictionary or “strong” alphanumeric passwords. Participants in a prior study expressed concerns t...
Furkan Tari, A. Ant Ozok, Stephen H. Holden
SOUPS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Decision strategies and susceptibility to phishing
Phishing emails are semantic attacks that con people into divulging sensitive information using techniques to make the user believe that information is being requested by a legiti...
Julie S. Downs, Mandy B. Holbrook, Lorrie Faith Cr...
SOUPS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Power strips, prophylactics, and privacy, oh my!
While Internet users claim to be concerned about online privacy, their behavior rarely reflects those concerns. In this paper we investigate whether the availability of compariso...
Julia Gideon, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Serge Egelman, ...
SOUPS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Intentional access management: making access control usable for end-users
The usability of access control mechanisms in modern distributed systems has been widely criticized but little studied. In this paper, we carefully examine one such widely deploye...
Xiang Cao, Lee Iverson
SOUPS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Web wallet: preventing phishing attacks by revealing user intentions
We introduce a new anti-phishing solution, the Web Wallet. The Web Wallet is a browser sidebar which users can use to submit their sensitive information online. It detects phishin...
Min Wu, Robert C. Miller, Greg Little