Yasemin Acar
Co-authored papers
2025
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It Should Be Easy but... New Users' Experiences and Challenges with Secret Management Tools
Proceedings of the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Lorenzo Neil, Deepthi Mungara, Laurie Williams, Yasemin Acar, and Bradley Reaves
Insufficient documentation and poor interface design prevent developers from effectively adopting secret management tools, even in simple and ideal scenarios.
2023
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Who Comes Up with this Stuff? Interviewing Authors to Understand How They Produce Security Advice
Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Lorenzo Neil, Harshini Sri Ramulu, Yasemin Acar, and Bradley Reaves
Interviews with 21 security advice authors reveal that prioritizing breadth over curation drives the overproduction of guidance that overwhelms users.
2021
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Investigating Web Service Account Remediation Advice
Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Lorenzo Neil, Elijah Bouma-Sims, Evan Lafontaine, Yasemin Acar, and Bradley Reaves
Only 39% of 57 popular web services provide guidance covering all five phases of compromised account recovery, leaving most users without adequate remediation support.
2018
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A Large Scale Investigation of Obfuscation Use in Google Play
Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Dominik Wermke, Nicolas Huaman, Yasemin Acar, Bradley Reaves, Patrick Traynor, and Sascha Fahl
Only 25% of 1.7 million Google Play apps use obfuscation, and most developer attempts to apply it fail.