A Novel Password Policy Focusing on Altering User Password Selection Habits: A Statistical Analysis on Breached Data

Güven, Ebu Yusuf; Boyacı, Ali; Aydın, Muhammed Ali

doi:10.1016/j.cose.2021.102560

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“…Users' careless security behaviour, involving password reuse, writing down and sharing passwords, and creating short or low-quality passwords are the main problems related to password security issues [14]. Modelling users' risky online behaviour based on analysing millions of passwords, both the most frequent passwords and how users create new passwords, can be helpful to hackers [15,16].…”

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An empirical study on differences between self-assessed and measured real risk in online behaviour

Šolić,

Idlbek,

Velki

2024

Int. j. electr. comput. eng. syst. (Online)

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As the leading cause of security breaches is human susceptibility to hackers' deception, the riskiness of an individual's online behaviour and low awareness regarding privacy protection significantly influence the overall security of an information system. Thus, this study aimed to compare self-assessed and measured real risk in online behaviour among online users. The additional aim was to modify the questionnaire by replacing the existing trick question about password quality with the new questions on accepting the terms and conditions. An international online Behavioral Cognitive Internet Security Questionnaire (BCISQ), validated in previous studies, was used for data collection. The examinees involved in this study were 278 students from different faculties. The results showed a relatively high level of risk in online behaviour, as 22.7% of examinees revealed their passwords. In comparison, only 10.8% read the consent statement. Students who behave in a riskier manner self-assess themselves as being significantly safer in online behaviour, which is contradictory. They also performed worse in all other examined variables. The new version of the simulation subscale, with improved internal consistency and reliability (Cronbach's Alfa=0.810), consists of only three items, which are questions used in the previous version, without adding any of the two tested trick questions. Generally, this study concludes that, on average, information security awareness is still low among online users and that even the ones realistically acting riskier believe they are acting more safely.

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An empirical study on differences between self-assessed and measured real risk in online behaviour

Šolić,

Idlbek,

Velki

2024

Int. j. electr. comput. eng. syst. (Online)

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“…Humans tend to create an easy password containing their personal information, which is easy to be cracked [4,5]. The users' behaviors of password creation enforce companies to establish password policies to increase security [6,7,8]. However, creating different passwords with different policies would be difficult to memorize [9,10].…”

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The Effectiveness of Applying Different Strategies on Recognition and Recall Textual Password

Wasfi¹,

Stone²

2022

IJNSA

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Using English words as passwords have been a popular topic in the last few years. The following article discusses a study to compare self-selection of the system-generated words for recognition and selfgenerated words for recall for nouns and mixture words. The results revealed no significant difference between recognition and recall of password nouns. The average memorability rate of noun recognition was 75.72%, slightly higher than noun recall 74.23% in long-term memory. Also, there was no significant difference between recognition and recall mixture word passwords. The average memorability rate of mixture word recognition was 95.23%, and recall was 84.14% in long-term memory. The authors concluded that the recognition and recall of mixed word passwords had a higher memorability rate than nouns.

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Scoring Scheme to Determine the Sensitive Information Level in Surface Web and Dark Web

Singh

Amritha

Sethumadhavan

2022

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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A Novel Password Policy Focusing on Altering User Password Selection Habits: A Statistical Analysis on Breached Data

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

An empirical study on differences between self-assessed and measured real risk in online behaviour

An empirical study on differences between self-assessed and measured real risk in online behaviour

The Effectiveness of Applying Different Strategies on Recognition and Recall Textual Password

Scoring Scheme to Determine the Sensitive Information Level in Surface Web and Dark Web

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