{"id":160994,"date":"2023-03-25T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T17:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/the-end-of-text-based-passwords-transparent-image-moving-provides-a-new-solution"},"modified":"2023-03-25T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T17:26:01","slug":"the-end-of-text-based-passwords-transparent-image-moving-provides-a-new-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/the-end-of-text-based-passwords-transparent-image-moving-provides-a-new-solution","title":{"rendered":"The end of text-based passwords? \u2018Transparent image moving\u2019 provides a new solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-end-of-text-based-passwords-transparent-image-moving-provides-a-new-solution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s past time the world moves away from text-based passwords and verifications for mobile phones and starts embracing more secure image-based solutions, say computer scientists from the University of Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, Surrey scientists demonstrate an image-based authentication system called TIM (Transparent Image Moving) for mobile phones to help reduce the risk of shoulder surfing attacks. TIM requires users to select and move predefined images to a designated position for passing authentication checks, similar to those required for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/online+shopping\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">online shopping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The proof-of-concept study found that 85% of TIM users believed it could help them to prevent password guessing and shoulder surfing attacks. The study also found that 71% of participants think TIM is a more usable image-based solution than others on the market. The research has been published in the Journal of Information Security and Applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s past time the world moves away from text-based passwords and verifications for mobile phones and starts embracing more secure image-based solutions, say computer scientists from the University of Surrey. In a new study, Surrey scientists demonstrate an image-based authentication system called TIM (Transparent Image Moving) for mobile phones to help reduce the risk of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}