Nurullah Demir

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Address Westphalian University of Applied Sciences
Institute for Internet Security
Neidenburger Str. 43
45897 Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Nurullah Demir
External Academic at the "Artificial Intelligence and Security" research group

Research area

  • Web measurements
  • Web security & privacy
  • Open source intelligence
  • Robust ML models

Reviewing Activities

  • Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) - Artifact Review Committee Member: 2021, 2022
  • USENIX Security Symposium, Artifact Evaluation Committee Member, 2023
  • ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) - Shadow PC Member: 2023

Publications (selected)

See my Google Scholar page for the full list of publications.

2025

Privacy from 5PM to 6AM: Tracking and Transparency Mechanisms in the HbbTV Ecosystem.
Christian Böttger, Henry Hosseini, Christine Utz, Nurullah Demir, Jan Hörnemann, Christian Wressnegger, Thomas Hupperich, Norbert Pohlmann, Matteo Große-Kampmann and Tobias Urban.
Proc. of 55th Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2025.

2024

A Large-Scale Study of Cookie Banner Interaction Tools and their Impact on Users' Privacy.
Nurullah Demir, Tobias Urban, Norbert Pohlmann and Christian Wressnegger.
Proc. of Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), July 2024.

2023

On the Similarity of Web Measurements Under Different Experimental Setups.
Nurullah Demir, Jan Hörnemann, Matteo Große-Kampmann, Tobias Urban, Norbert Pohlmann, Thorsten Holz and Christian Wressnegger.
Proc. of 23rd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October 2023.

2022

Reproducibility and Replicability of Web Measurement Studies.
Nurullah Demir, Matteo Große-Kampmann, Tobias Urban, Christian Wressnegger, Thorsten Holz and Norbert Pohlmann.
Proc. of 31st ACM Web Conference (WWW), April 2022.
Best Paper Award Runner-Up

Towards Understanding First-Party Cookie Tracking in the Field.
Nurullah Demir, Daniel Theis, Tobias Urban and Norbert Pohlmann.
Proc. of GI Conference “Sicherheit, Schutz und Zuverlässigkeit” (SICHERHEIT), April 2022.

The 2022 Web Almanac: HTTP Archive's annual state of the web report — Security Chapter.
Tom Goethem and Nurullah Demir.
Technical report, HTTPArchive.org, 2022.

2021

Our (in) Secure Web: Understanding Update Behavior of Websites and Its Impact on Security.
Nurullah Demir, Tobias Urban, Kevin Wittek and Norbert Pohlmann.
Proc. of 22nd International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement (PAM), March 2021.

The 2021 Web Almanac: HTTP Archive's annual state of the web report — Security Chapter.
Saptak Sengupta, Tom Goethem and Nurullah Demir.
Technical report, HTTPArchive.org, 2021.

2020

The 2020 Web Almanac: HTTP Archive's annual state of the web report — Security Chapter.
Tom Goethem, Nurullah Demir and Barry Pollard.
Technical report, HTTPArchive.org, 2020.

Awards and Honors

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