Generational Differences in Password Management Behaviour

Merdenyan, Burak; Petrie, Helen

doi:10.14236/ewic/hci2018.60

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“…On the other hand, the implementation of password hygiene training programmes for youth (13-16 years) show changes in password-setting behaviour [15]. Researchers found that there is a high percentage of reused passwords in both groups of older and younger respondents [16]. The researchers emphasise that public campaigns about password security have not been successful, as the problem continues to exist.…”

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Age and Gender Impact on Password Hygiene

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Password hygiene plays an essential part in securing systems protected with single-factor authentication. A significant fraction of security incidents happen due to weak or reused passwords. The reasons behind differences in security vulnerable behaviour between various user groups remains an active research topic. The paper aims to identify the impact of age and gender on password strength using a large password dataset. We recovered previously hashed passwords of 102,120 users from a leaked customer database of a car-sharing company. Although the measured effect size was small, males significantly had stronger passwords than females for all age groups. Males aged 26–45 were also significantly different from all other groups, and password complexity decreased with age for both genders equally. Overall, very weak password hygiene was observed, 72% of users based their password on a word or used a simple sequence of digits, and passwords of over 39% of users were found in word lists of previous leaks.

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Age and Gender Impact on Password Hygiene

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“…A number of other studies have also found that age is less important that might be expected in relation to online security [2,15]. However, other studies have found age differences [16,25], although both these studies were about password-related behaviour in particular, with both showing that younger people were more likely to undertake at least some risky password behaviours.…”

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Online Security Attack Experience and Worries of Young Adults in the United Kingdom

Aldaraani

Petrie

Shahandashti

2022

Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance

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Online security issues continue to grow as a concern, amplified by the coronavirus pandemic. The current cohort of young people (aged 18 -30, "Generation Z") are the first to have grown up with digital technologies, but to what extent are they worried about online security attacks and what experience do they have of them? An online survey of 81 young UK participants investigated their experience with 12 scenarios presenting online security attacks, asked about their level of worry with 9 online security attacks and their knowledge of computer and online security, and their confidence in their ability to identity an attack. Experience with the online attacks ranged widely, from over 50% of participants experiencing spear phishing to attempt identity theft, to only 2.5% experiencing a spoofed website. A principal components analysis showed that worries clearly fell into two components: Theft Worry and Phishing Worry. Levels of worry on these two components could be predicted from the number of different online security attacks participants had experienced. These relationships may be useful for developing education and advice to encourage better online security behaviour.

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“…According to [9], the implementation of password hygiene training programmes for youth (13-16 years) show changes in password-setting behaviour. Studies have shown that there is a high percentage of reused passwords in younger adults [10], [11]. Likewise, while older adults are keen to protect themselves, they do feel anxiety (e.g., fear of forgetting the password), they nd password management cumbersome and time-consuming, hence they engage in the culture of password reused [9], [12].…”

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Factors Influencing The Experiences of End-users in Password-Based Authentication System

Ugwu,

Ukwandu,

Ofusori

et al. 2024

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Issues relating to password-based authentication has led to calls to an alternative in passwordless authentication. This call represents a comprehensive drift from password-based authentication irrespective of the introduction of multi-factor authentication, single sign-on and so on that are meant to strengthen the security of password-based authentication systems. As password-based authentication remains the most popular way of making sure end-users of computer, digital and information technology systems have authorised access to their valued assets and resources. The understanding of factors responsible for issues associated with password-based authentication continues to drive researchers and developers’ interests. This paper is a follow-up to an initial effort in understanding the experiences of end-users in password-based authentication. This study used questionnaire-based design administered online through Google form in eliciting information from end-users that will help in determining how much factors like password hygiene culture, use of password management tools, economic and social status of end-users and so on contribute to their password experience. A total of 193 respondents were used in analysis and the result provide factors that contribute and those that do not contribute to the experiences of end-users in their use of password-based authentication systems. The result of this study will go a long way in strengthening the design, deployment and utilisation of password-based authentication.

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Generational Differences in Password Management Behaviour

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Age and Gender Impact on Password Hygiene

Age and Gender Impact on Password Hygiene

Online Security Attack Experience and Worries of Young Adults in the United Kingdom

Factors Influencing The Experiences of End-users in Password-Based Authentication System

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