DIVINA: Discovering vulnerabilities of internet accounts

Ziad Ismail, Danai Symeonidou, Fabian Suchanek

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Abstract

Internet users typically have several online accounts - such as mail accounts, cloud storage accounts, or social media accounts. The security of these accounts is often intricately linked: The password of one account can be reset by send- ing an email to another account; the data of one account can be backed up on another account; one account can only be accessed by two-factor authentication through a second ac- count; and so forth. This poses three challenges: First, if a user loses one or several of his passwords, can he still access his data? Second, how many passwords does an attacker need in order to access the data? And nally, how many passwords does an attacker need in order to irreversibly delete the user's data? In this paper, we model the depen- dencies of online accounts in order to help the user discover security weaknesses. We have implemented our system and invite users to try it out on their real accounts.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWWW 2015 Companion - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages203-206
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450334730
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 May 2015
Event24th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2015 - Florence, Italy
Duration: 18 May 201522 May 2015

Publication series

NameWWW 2015 Companion - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

Conference

Conference24th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2015
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period18/05/1522/05/15

Keywords

  • Online Accounts
  • Rules
  • Safety
  • Security
  • Vulnerabilities

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