William Melicher

Most-cited papers

Fast, Lean, and Accurate: Modeling Password Guessability Using Neural Networks
William Melicher, Blase Ur, Sean M. Segreti, Saranga Komanduri +3 more
2016USENIX Annual Technical Conference348 citations
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Measuring Real-World Accuracies and Biases in Modeling Password Guessability
Blase Ur, Sean M. Segreti, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin +6 more
2015USENIX Security Symposium205 citations
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Design and Evaluation of a Data-Driven Password Meter
Blase Ur, F. Alfieri, Maung Aung, Lujo Bauer +8 more
2017International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems143 citations
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Usability and Security of Text Passwords on Mobile Devices
William Melicher, Darya Kurilova, Sean M. Segreti, Pranshu Kalvani +6 more
2016International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems125 citations Open access
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A Spoonful of Sugar?: The Impact of Guidance and Feedback on Password-Creation Behavior
R. Shay, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, L. Cranor +6 more
2015International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems96 citations Open access
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Riding out DOMsday: Towards Detecting and Preventing DOM Cross-Site Scripting
William Melicher, Anupam Das, Mahmood Sharif, Lujo Bauer +1 more
2018Network and Distributed System Security Symposium88 citations Open access
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(Do Not) Track Me Sometimes: Users’ Contextual Preferences for Web Tracking
William Melicher, Mahmood Sharif, Joshua Tan, Lujo Bauer +2 more
2016Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies84 citations Open access
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Towards Privacy-Aware Smart Buildings: Capturing, Communicating, and Enforcing Privacy Policies and Preferences
Primal Pappachan, Martin Degeling, Roberto Yus, Anupam Das +9 more
2017International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops64 citations Open access
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Password Creation in the Presence of Blacklists
Hana Habib, Jessica Colnago, William Melicher, Blase Ur +4 more
201750 citations
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Sharing Personal Content Online: Exploring Channel Choice and Multi-Channel Behaviors
Manya Sleeper, William Melicher, Hana Habib, Lujo Bauer +2 more
2016International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems46 citations Open access
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Diversify to Survive: Making Passwords Stronger with Adaptive Policies
Sean M. Segreti, William Melicher, Saranga Komanduri, Darya Melicher +6 more
2017Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security40 citations
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Towards a Lightweight, Hybrid Approach for Detecting DOM XSS Vulnerabilities with Machine Learning
William Melicher, Clement Fung, Lujo Bauer, Li-Min Jia
2021The Web Conference38 citations Open access
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A comparison of users' perceptions of and willingness to use Google, Facebook, and Google+ single-sign-on functionality
Lujo Bauer, Cristian Bravo-Lillo, Elli Fragkaki, William Melicher
2013Digital Identity Management34 citations Open access
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Toward strong, usable access control for shared distributed data
Michelle L. Mazurek, Yuan Liang, William Melicher, Manya Sleeper +4 more
2014USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies29 citations
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PhishInPatterns: measuring elicited user interactions at scale on phishing websites
Karthika Subramani, William Melicher, Oleksii Starov, Phani Vadrevu +1 more
2022ACM/SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference27 citations
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Passive user identification using sequential analysis of proximity information in touchscreen usage patterns
V. Zaliva, William Melicher, Shayan Saha, J. Zhang
2015International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking9 citations
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Better Passwords through Science (and Neural Networks)
William Melicher, Blase Ur, Sean M. Segreti, Lujo Bauer +2 more
2017Login: The Usenix Magazine4 citations
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Malicious GenAI Chrome Extensions: Unpacking Data Exfiltration and Malicious Behaviours
Shresta B.Seetharam, Mohamed Nabeel, William Melicher
2025arXiv.org1 citations
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Automated Generation of Behavioral Signatures for Malicious Web Campaigns
Shaown Sarker, William Melicher, Oleksii Starov, Anupam Das +1 more
2024Information Security Conference1 citations
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Practical Real-time Detection of IPv4 Record Classical Domain Hijacking at Scale
Janos Szurdi, Mohammad Ghasemisharif, Reethika Ramesh, Zhanhao Chen +3 more
2026ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security0 citations Open access
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PhishInPatterns
Karthika Subramani, William Melicher, Oleksii Starov, Phani Vadrevu +1 more
2022Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference0 citations
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Poster : Users ’ Perceptions of and Willingness to Use Single-Sign-On Functionality
Lujo Bauer, Cristian Bravo-Lillo, Elli Fragkaki, William Melicher +1 more
20140 citations
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