3 Ways That AI Can Help Users Avoid Weak Passwords

The scientists from Stevens will be giving a talk on the AI program's latest password-cracking developments at the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in 2021. "Since 2017, we have improved PassGAN, and now it uses a form of reinforcement learning very similar to how AlphaZero has learned how to play chess," says Giuseppe Ateniese, the department chair of the Schaefer School of Engineering & Science at Stevens who co-authored the original paper on PassGAN. READ MORE: Three ways artificial intelligence can improve campus cybersecurity. The talk will expand on how deep learning models allow researchers to gain and interpret important intelligence -- such as semantic similarities between user passwords -- from large password data sets. "In our work, we show that these neural representations capture many properties of password distributions and enable new password guessing techniques," the study's leading researcher, Dario Pasquini, says in a preview of the upcoming IEEE talk.