Stephen John Gavaran

The Erosion of Password-Based Authentication Security: A Data-Driven Evaluation of Phishing-Based Session Hijacking and MFA-Bypass Techniques

Password authentication remains widely used, but modern phishing campaigns increasingly target the authenticated session rather than the password alone. This study examines the gradual erosion of password-based security through a reproducible secondary-data analysis of phishing websites and network intrusions, while al...