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In this talk we will have a closer look on the current state of user authentication, and will discuss several variants to strengthen user authentication. One specifically interesting approach is to use additional signals such as source IP, geo-location, or browser configuration. These allow a service to estimate the risk of a malicious login and to take appropriate countermeasures. This requires minimal changes to the user experience, and is used in practice by several services.<\/p><p><strong>Markus D\u00fcrmuth<\/strong> is assistant professor and head of the mobile security group at Ruhr University Bochum. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ruhr University Bochum and a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Theory Group at the Department of Computer Science of Stanford University. 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