M. Mannan Research -- In the News

Digital objects as passwords

The object-based password (ObPwd, paper, prototype) scheme has been reported in the media including:

• ObPwd Generates Secure Passwords from Web Images and Text, LifeHacker, January 19, 2011.
• Let A Picture Be Your Password With ObPwd, MakeUseOf, August 18, 2008.
• Let Your Theme Song be Your Password, New Scientist, August 8, 2008.
• Name that tune: How songs could be the passwords of the future, Daily Telegraph, August 12, 2008.
• Let Your Theme Song be Your Password, Slashdot, August 12, 2008.
• Researchers replace passwords with digital objects, Geek.com, August 13, 2008.
• Forgot your password? Use Beethoven's Ninth instead, TechRadar.com, August 10, 2008.
• Boffins create passwords from pictures and MP3s, TechWorld.com, August 14, 2008.
• Turn Digital Objects Into Passwords, Windows IT Pro, August 14, 2008.

This also appeared in several other languages such as Hungarian, Russian, Danish, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Spanish (Google ObPwd).

Usability of security requirements in online banking

Findings from our online banking work " Security and Usability: The Gap in Real-World Online Banking" have been reported on several Canadian news media, including:

• CBC Radio, CBC News at Six, News Article, (September 17, 2007)
• NewsTalk Radio CFRB Toronto (April 10, 2008), CHQR Calgary and GetConnected Radio Vancouver (April 11, 2008)
• Canwest News Service -- appeared in several newspapers including: Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Winnipeg Free Press, Windsor Star etc. (April 10, 2008)
• Letter from Canadian Bankers Association (April 15, 2008)
• Vancouver Sun Editorial (April 15, 2008)