Shoulder Surfing Resistant Virtual Keyboard for Internet Banking
S. Rajarajan, K. Uma Maheswari, S. Sriharilakshmi, B. Tech Cse · 2014
2 Abstract: Today the prevalence of online banking is enormous. People prefer to accomplish their financial transactions through the online banking services offered by their banks. This method of accessing is more convenient, quicker and secured. Banks are also encouraging their customers to opt for this mode of e-banking facilities since that result in cost savings for the banks and there is better customer satisfaction. An important aspect of online banking is the precise authentication of users before allowing them to access their accounts. Typically this is done by asking the customers to enter their unique login id and password combination. The success of this authentication relies on the ability of customers to maintain the secrecy of their passwords. Since the customer login to the banking portals normally occur in public environments, the passwords are prone to key logging attacks. To avoid this, virtual keyboards are provided. But virtual keyboards are vulnerable to shoulder surfing based attacks. In this paper, a secured virtual keyboard scheme that withstands such attacks is proposed. Elaborate user studies carried out on the proposed scheme have testified the security and the usability of the proposed approach.