IT admins usually know what to watch out for when end users are creating weak, easy-to-guess passwords. However, a common yet overlooked type of weak password are keyboard walk patterns. A keyboard ...

Passwords are still the most commonly used mechanism for user authentication. This paper proposes an efficient and effective method to attack passwords generated from some special keyboard patterns.

No doubt about it … passwords are a pain. But as the market becomes saturated with high-tech authentication methods and technologies, some are finding a niche modernizing simple ideas to heighten both ...

Keyboard pattern combinations are a bad idea for a password. There are lots of ways a scammer can get his hands on your passwords, even if you take steps to protect your information. There are data ...

For the fifth year in a row, password management security company SplashData has scraped password dumps, primarily from hacked sites, and scoured through the data to find the world’s most common ...