Hello, Marietta College's annual Krause Science Lecture this year is on the topic of computer security. Our speaker is Lorrie Faith Cranor from Carnegie Mellon University; the title of her talk is "What's wrong with my pa$$w0rd?" I've included her abstract below. The lecture will be at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, April 10, 2018, in the McDonough Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. Given the nature of the talk, I thought this might be of interest to some of your Computer Science faulty and/or students. Directions from Athens: East on U.S. 50 until you get to Belpre. In Belpre, Ohio 7 Northbound splits away from U.S. 50. Take Ohio 7 Northbound into Marietta. Once you cross the Muskingum River Bridge this turns into Washington Street. Stay on Washington to Fourth Street. Turn right on Fourth Street and continue 4 blocks until you get to Butler Street. Turn left on Butler; the parking lot will be on your right. The lecture is in the McDonough Center Auditorium. From the parking lot, cross the street to the pedestrian mall. Walk up the mall for about a block. The McDonough Center will be on your right; the auditorium is on the main floor. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about this. The abstract for the talk is included below. -Mark ******************************************************** Mark A. Miller Associate Provost for Academic Administration Marietta College 740-376-4811 mark.miller at marietta.edu <mailto: mark.miller at marietta.edu > What's wrong with your pa$$w0rd? Lorrie Faith Cranor Users struggle to follow complicated password rules, and often reuse their passwords or add digits and special characters in predictable places, resulting in weak passwords. In our research at Carnegie Mellon University, we seek to advance understanding of the factors that make following password policies difficult, collect empirical data on password strength and memorability under various password policies, and propose password policy guidelines to simultaneously maximize security and usability of passwords. To that end, our research group has conducted a series of online studies in which we asked tens of thousands of people to create passwords that comply with specific password policies. We developed an efficient method for calculating how effectively several password-guessing algorithms guess passwords and used it to analyze leaked password sets, passwords created for our studies, and the single-sign-on passwords used by over 25,000 faculty, staff, and students at our university. We investigated a variety of password policies, including those with requirements on length and types of characters, as well as those that use passphrases and password meters. We studied user perceptions of password security and developed an open source password meter based on our research. In this talk I will discuss our passwords research and highlight some of our most interesting findings. I'll also describe ways attackers crack passwords and what you can do to prevent your passwords from being compromised. Lorrie Faith Cranor (lorrie.cranor.org< http://lorrie.cranor.org >) is the FORE Systems Professor Lorrie Faith Cranor's Home Page< http://lorrie.cranor.org/ > lorrie.cranor.org This page: Contact | News | Research | Publications | Affiliations | Teaching | Students | Consulting | Personal Elsewhere: Blog | Bio | Resume | Press | Quilts | Photos | Academic genealogy | Everything else of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University where she is director of the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS). She is associate department head of the Engineering and Public Policy Department and co-director of the MSIT-Privacy Engineering masters program. In 2016 she served as Chief Technologist at the US Federal Trade Commission. She is also a co-founder of Wombat Security Technologies, Inc, a security awareness training company. She is a fellow of the ACM and IEEE and a member of the ACM CHI Academy. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/eecs_bscs/attachments/20180406/c972959a/attachment.html >
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