6 papers
"Write in English, Nobody Understands Your Language Here": A Study of Non-English Trends in Open-Source Repositories
Masudul Hasan Masud Bhuiyan, Manish Kumar Bala Kumar, Cristian-Alexandru Staicu
The open-source software (OSS) community has historically been dominated by English as the primary language for code, documentation, and developer interactions. However, with growi…
SoK: A Literature and Engineering Review of Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Masudul Hasan Masud Bhuiyan, Berk Ãakar, Ethan H. Burmane +2
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) is a vulnerability class that has become prominent in recent years. Attackers can weaponize such weaknesses as part of asymmetric cyber…
Not All Visitors are Bilingual: A Measurement Study of the Multilingual Web from an Accessibility Perspective
Masudul Hasan Masud Bhuiyan, Matteo Varvello, Yasir Zaki +1
English is the predominant language on the web, powering nearly half of the world's top ten million websites. Support for multilingual content is nevertheless growing, with many we…
Call Me Maybe: Enhancing JavaScript Call Graph Construction using Graph Neural Networks
Masudul Hasan Masud Bhuiyan, Gianluca De Stefano, Giancarlo Pellegrino +1
Static analysis plays a key role in finding bugs, including security issues. A critical step in static analysis is building accurate call graphs that model function calls in a prog…
User Profiles: The Achilles' Heel of Web Browsers
Dolière Francis Somé, Moaz Airan, Zakir Durumeric +1
Web browsers provide the security foundation for our online experiences. Significant research has been done into the security of browsers themselves, but relatively little investig…
Non-Western Perspectives on Web Inclusivity: A Study of Accessibility Practices in the Global South
Masudul Hasan Masud Bhuiyan, Matteo Varvello, Cristian-Alexandru Staicu +1
The Global South faces unique challenges in achieving digital inclusion due to a heavy reliance on mobile devices for internet access and the prevalence of slow or unreliable netwo…