FILIPPONE M.

Modern password guessing attacks adopt sophisticated probabilistic techniques that allow for orders of magnitude less guesses to succeed compared to brute force. Unfortunately, best practices and password strength evaluators failed to keep up: they are generally based on heuristic rules designed to defend against obsolete brute force attacks....

User connectivity patterns in network applications are known to be heterogeneous and to follow periodic (daily and weekly) patterns. In many cases, the regularity and the correlation of those patterns is problematic: For network applications, many connected users create peaks of demand; in contrast, in peer-to-peer scenarios, having few users...