Black Hole Password Security

Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), serve the easiest way for the bank and the users to transact money in the fastest way. It also brings more security threats by the hackers and the fraudulent. Shoulder-surfing using direct observation techniques, such as looking over someone's shoulder, to get passwords, PINs and other sensitive personal information is a problem that has been difficult to overcome. When a user enters information using a keyboard, mouse, touch screen or any traditional input device, a malicious observer may acquire the user’s password credentials.

In this paper, we discuss how to prevent shoulder-surfers and other fraudulent by hacking the passwords using various forms. We propose generating random passwords during each transaction with the original password as the reference. Thus the users’ password serves as a black hole. By the results that we have obtained, this modified traditional system provides a better security than any other existing system.