Security advice is one key way that consumers learn security behaviors. However, prior work has shown that this advice may not always be helpful and may be less accessible to those with lower internet skill or less education. As a first step toward improving the...
Few users have a single, authoritative, source from whom they can request digital-security advice. Rather, digital-security skills are often learned haphazardly, as users filter through an overwhelming quantity of security advice. By understanding the factors that...
This report presents the findings of a study which investigated the outcome of password strength and the behaviour; and sentiment of users subjected to four different password-composition policies.
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 in the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) computing services password policy that required...
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