“There have been many attacks on servers that store passwords lately, such as the breaches at PayPal and LinkedIn,” said Nitesh Saxena, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and a core member of the UAB Center for Cyber Security.
UAB News: UAB research improves ease and security of password protections
Research Publication: "Two-Factor Authentication Resilient to Server Compromise Using Mix-Bandwidth Devices Maliheh Shirvanian, Stanislaw Jarecki, Nitesh Saxena and Naveen Nathan." The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) , February 2014
UAB doctoral student Maliheh Shirvanian, co-author of a paper presented at the 2014 Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium, explains two-factor authentication schemes.
Additional media outlets which, also carried this story:
- Industrial Safety and Security Source, March 5, 2014
- Strengthening Two-Factor Authentication
- Science Daily, February 28, 2014
- Ease and security of password protections improved
- The Indian Express, March 3, 2014
- New methods for password protection proposed
- The Hindustan Times, March 3, 2014
- New methods for password protection proposed
- NDTV, March 3, 2014
- Scientists propose new two-factor methods for password protection
- The Economic Times, March 3, 2014
- New methods for password protection proposed
- The Times of India, March 3, 2014
- Password protection: Scientists propose new methods
