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Is Everything We Know about Password Stealing Wrong?
Nov.-Dec. 2012 (vol. 10 no. 6)
pp. 63-69
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| Dinei Florêncio, Cormac Herley, "Is Everything We Know about Password Stealing Wrong?," IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 63-69, Nov.-Dec., 2012. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/MSP.2012.57, author = {Dinei Florêncio and Cormac Herley}, title = {Is Everything We Know about Password Stealing Wrong?}, journal ={IEEE Security & Privacy}, volume = {10}, number = {6}, issn = {1540-7993}, year = {2012}, pages = {63-69}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MSP.2012.57}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - MGZN JO - IEEE Security & Privacy TI - Is Everything We Know about Password Stealing Wrong? IS - 6 SN - 1540-7993 SP63 EP69 EPD - 63-69 A1 - Dinei Florêncio, A1 - Cormac Herley, PY - 2012 KW - Government policies KW - Banking KW - Computer crime KW - Marketing and sales KW - Privacy KW - Computer security KW - computer security KW - cybercrime KW - passwords KW - phishing VL - 10 JA - IEEE Security & Privacy ER - | |||
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MSP.2012.57
US Federal Reserve Regulation E guarantees that consumers are made whole when their bank passwords are stolen. The implications lead to several interesting conclusions. First, emptying accounts is extremely hard: transferring money in a way that is irreversible can generally only be done in a way that cannot later be repudiated. Password-enabled transfers can always be repudiated, which explains the importance of mules who accept bad transfers and initiate good ones. This suggests that the mules' accounts, rather than the victims', are pillaged. Passwords are but one link in the cybercrime value chain. Despite appearances, password stealing is a bad business proposition.
Index Terms:
Government policies,Banking,Computer crime,Marketing and sales,Privacy,Computer security,computer security,cybercrime,passwords,phishing
Citation:
Dinei Florêncio, Cormac Herley, "Is Everything We Know about Password Stealing Wrong?," IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 63-69, Nov.-Dec. 2012, doi:10.1109/MSP.2012.57
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