All Publications

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• D. Blackwell, I. Becker and D. Clark, Hyperfuzzing: black-box security hypertesting with a grey-box fuzzer, in Empirical Software Engineering, 30:22, 2025. Publisher Link
• G. Buckley, T. Caulfield and I. Becker, How might the GDPR evolve? A question of politics, pace and punishment, in Computer Law and Security Review, Volume 54, September 2024. Publisher Link | SSRN | UCL Discovery
• G. Buckley, T. Caulfield and I. Becker, GDPR and the indefinable effectiveness of privacy regulators: Can performance assessment be improved?, in Journal of Cybersecurity, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2024. Publisher Link | UCL Discovery
• S. Zheng and I. Becker, Phishing to improve detection, in The 2023 European Symposium on Usable Security, EuroUSEC 2023. Publisher Link | UCL Discovery
• N. Sombatruang, T. Caulfield, I. Becker, A. Fujita, T. Kasama, K. Nakao and D. Inoue, Internet Service Providers' and Individuals' Attitudes, Barriers, and Incentives to Secure IoT, in 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 2023. Preprint | UCL Discovery | Publisher link (with video and slides)
• S. Zheng and I. Becker, Checking, nudging or scoring? Evaluating e-mail user security tools, in Nineteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, SOUPS 2023. Publisher Link (with video and slides) | UCL Discovery
• M. Ordekian, I. Becker and M. Vasek, Shaping Cryptocurrency Gatekeepers with a Regulatory 'Trial and Error', in 4th Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance, CoDecFin 2023. SSRN Preprint | UCL Discovery | Blogpost
• C. Weir, I. Becker and L. Blair, Incorporating software security: Using developer workshops to engage product managers, in Empirical Software Engineering, 2023. Publisher Version | Lancaster Research Directory | UCL Discovery
• G. Buckley, T. Caulfield and I. Becker, “It may be a pain in the backside but...” Insights into the resilience of business after GDPR, in NSPW, 2022. Publisher Link | UCL Discovery
• S. Zheng and I. Becker, Presenting Suspicious Details in User-Facing E-mail Headers Does Not Improve Phishing Detection, in Eighteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, SOUPS 2022. Publisher Link (with video and slides) | UCL Discovery
• P. Demetriou, I Becker, S. Hailes, Who Watches the Watchers: A Multi-Task Benchmark for Anomaly Detection, in 8th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, ICISSP 2022. Publisher Link | UCL Discovery | Aftershock Project Website
• I. Becker, R. Posner, T. Islam, P. Ekblom, H. Borrion, M. McGuire and S. Li, Privacy in Transport? Exploring Perceptions of Location Privacy Through User Segmentation, in Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICCS 2021. Publisher Link | UCL Discovery | Best Paper Award Winner.
• C. Weir, I. Becker and L. Blair, A Passion for Security: Intervening to Help Software Developers, in Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2021. Publisher Version (not OA) | UCL Discovery
• J. Morris, I. Becker and S. Parkin, An Analysis of Perceptions and Support for Windows 10 Home Edition Update Features, in Journal of Cybersecurity, Volume 6, Issue 1, 2020. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery
  This is a substantially extended and updated version of the 2019 USEC paper.
• C. Weir, I. Becker, J. Noble, L. Blair, M. A. Sasse, and A Rashid, Interventions for Long Term Software Security: Creating a lightweight program of assurance techniques for developers, in Software: Practice and Experience, Volume 50, Issue 3, 2020. Publisher Version (not OA) | UCL Discovery
• T. Tasmina, I. Becker, R. Posner, P. Ekblom, M. McGuire, H. Borrion, and S. Li, A Socio-Technical and Co-Evolutionary Framework for Reducing Human-Related Risks in Cyber Security and Cybercrime Ecosystems, Proc. DependSys, 2019. Publisher Version (not OA) | UCL Discovery
• I. Becker, Measuring and Understanding Security Behaviours, in Doctoral Thesis, UCL, 2019. UCL Discovery | Thesis Template
• C. Weir, L. Blair, I. Becker, M. A. Sasse, J. Noble, and A Rashid, Interventions for Software Security: Creating a Lightweight Program of Assurance Techniques for Developers, in 41st International Conference on Software Engineering, 2019. Publisher Version (not OA) | UCL Discovery
• J. Morris, I. Becker and S. Parkin, In Control with no Control: Perceptions and Reality of Windows 10 Home Edition Update Features, in Workshop on Usable Security (USEC), 2019. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery | Dataset
• C. Weir, L. Blair, I. Becker, M. A. Sasse, and J. Noble, Light-touch Interventions to Improve Software Development Security, in IEEE Cybersecurity Development Conference (SecDev 18), 2018. Publisher Version (not OA) | UCL Discovery
• I. Becker, S. Parkin, and M. A. Sasse, Rewarding Users for Stronger Passwords: Linking Password Lifetime to Strength, in 27th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 18), 2018. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery | Blog Post
• A. Demjaha, J. M. Spring, I. Becker, S. Parkin, and M. A. Sasse, Metaphors Considered Harmful? An Exploratory Study of the Effectiveness of Functional Metaphors for End-to-End Encryption, in USEC 2018: Workshop on Usable Security, 2018. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery | Dataset
• I. Becker, A. Hutchings, R. Abu-Salma, R. Anderson, N. Bohm, S. Murdoch, and M. A. Sasse, International Comparison of Bank Fraud Reimbursement: Customer Perceptions and Contractual Terms, in Journal of Cybersecurity, Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages 109–125, June 2017. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery | Survey Dataset | T&C Dataset
• I. Becker, S. Parkin, and M. A. Sasse, Measuring the Success of Context-Aware Security Behaviour Surveys, in Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER), 2017. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery | Dataset
• S. Dodier-Lazaro, R. Abu-Salma, I. Becker, and M. Sasse, From Paternalistic to User-Centred Security: Putting Users First with Value-Sensitive Design, in CHI 2017 Workshop on Values in Computing, 2017. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery
• I. Becker, S. Parkin, and M. A. Sasse, Finding Security Champions in Blends of Organisational Culture, in Proc. EuroUSEC ’17, 2017. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery Also presented as a poster at SOUPS 2017.
• S. Dodier-Lazaro, I. Becker, J. Krinke, and M. A. Sasse, No Good Reason to Remove Features: Expert Users Value Useful Apps over Secure Ones, in Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust, HAS 2017. Publisher Version
  Previously published as a UCL Computer Science Research Note, University College London, Computer Science, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom, 17/03, Feb. 2017.
• S. Parkin, K. Krol, I. Becker, and M. Sasse, Applying Cognitive Control Modes to Identify Security Fatigue Hotspots, in Twelfth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, SOUPS 2016. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery
• S. J. Murdoch, I. Becker, R. Abu-Salma, R. Anderson, N. Bohm, A. Hutchings, M. A. Sasse, and G. Stringhini, Are Payment Card Contracts Unfair?, in Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2016. Publisher Version (not OA) | UCL Discovery | Dataset
• I. Becker, S. Parkin, and M. A. Sasse, Combining Qualitative Coding and Sentiment Analysis: Deconstructing Perceptions of Usable Security in Organisations, in Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results, LASER 2016. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery
• I. Becker, A. Hutchings, R. Abu-Salma, R. Anderson, N. Bohm, S. J. Murdoch, M. A. Sasse and G. Stringhini, International Comparison of Bank Fraud Reimbursement: Customer Perceptions and Contractual Terms, in Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, WEIS 2016. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery | Survey Dataset | T&C Dataset
• A. Beautement, I. Becker, S. Parkin, K. Krol, and M. A. Sasse, Productive Security: A Scalable Methodology for Analysing Employee Security Behaviours, in Twelfth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, SOUPS 2016. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery | Dataset | Slides