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20072024
most citedIs This Really You? An Empirical Study on Risk-Based Authentication Applied in the Wild

60 citations · 186 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

Is It Really You Who Forgot the Password? When Account Recovery Meets Risk-Based Authentication

Andre Büttner, Andreas Thue Pedersen, Stephan Wiefling +2

Risk-based authentication (RBA) is used in online services to protect user accounts from unauthorized takeover. RBA commonly uses contextual features that indicate a suspicious log…

cs.CR2023★ 16 cited

Privacy Considerations for Risk-Based Authentication Systems

Stephan Wiefling, Jan Tolsdorf, Luigi Lo Iacono

Risk-based authentication (RBA) extends authentication mechanisms to make them more robust against account takeover attacks, such as those using stolen passwords. RBA is recommende…

cs.CR2022★ 47 cited

Pump Up Password Security! Evaluating and Enhancing Risk-Based Authentication on a Real-World Large-Scale Online Service

Stephan Wiefling, Paul René Jørgensen, Sigurd Thunem +1

Risk-based authentication (RBA) aims to protect users against attacks involving stolen passwords. RBA monitors features during login, and requests re-authentication when feature va…

cs.CR2021

XML Signature Wrapping Still Considered Harmful: A Case Study on the Personal Health Record in Germany

Paul Höller, Alexander Krumeich, Luigi Lo Iacono

XML Signature Wrapping (XSW) has been a relevant threat to web services for 15 years until today. Using the Personal Health Record (PHR), which is currently under development in Ge…

cs.CR2021★ 4 cited

Evaluation of Account Recovery Strategies with FIDO2-based Passwordless Authentication

Johannes Kunke, Stephan Wiefling, Markus Ullmann +1

Threats to passwords are still very relevant due to attacks like phishing or credential stuffing. One way to solve this problem is to remove passwords completely. User studies on p…

cs.CR2021★ 2 cited

What's in Score for Website Users: A Data-driven Long-term Study on Risk-based Authentication Characteristics

Stephan Wiefling, Markus Dürmuth, Luigi Lo Iacono

Risk-based authentication (RBA) aims to strengthen password-based authentication rather than replacing it. RBA does this by monitoring and recording additional features during the…