MSc Theses

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2024

1. Yasin Aksüt. An Analysis of Kerberoasting Attack and Detection with Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms.
   • Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cihangir Tezcan

2023

1. Niloufar Alizadeh Saveh. A Permissioned Blockchain-Based Model for Digital Forensics.
   • Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cihangir Tezcan
2. Ahmet Malal. FPGA-Friendly Compact and Efficient AES-Like 8x8 S-Box.
   • Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cihangir Tezcan

2022

1. Sinan Emir Korkmaz. Compact and flexible NTRU implementation on FPGA.
   • Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cihangir Tezcan
2. Ayşenur Aksoy. Augmenting a Turkish dataset for spam filtering using natural language processing techniques.
   • Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Banu Günel Kılıç
   • Co-supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk
3. Abdullah Özkan. Keystroke transcription from acoustic emanations using continuous wavelet transform.
   • Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Banu Günel Kılıç
   • Co-supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk
4. Sertan Selçuk. Technology acceptance model to evaluate factors affecting adoption of the industrial internet of things (IIOT) by the industrial professionals.
   • Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk
5. Nazenin Şahin. Malware detection using transformers-based model GPT-2.
   • Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk
6. Ebru Kültür. Network Intrusion Detection with a Deep Learning Approach.
• Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Aybar Can Acar
7. Bulut Ulukapı. Detecting Android Obfuscation Methods with LSTM.
• Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cihangir Tezcan
• Co-supervisor: Dr. Pınar Gürkan Balıkçıoğlu

2021

1. Deniz Demirci. Static Malware Detection using Stacked Bi-Directional LSTM.
• Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk
2. Kıvanç Aydın. Analysis of Password Attacks from the Perspective of the Attackers by Multiple Honeypots.
• Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk
3. Aslı Başak Civek. Differential-Linear Cryptanalysis of Ascon and Drygascon.
• Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cihangir Tezcan
4. Onur Bolel. Impossible and improbable differential cryptanalysis of SPOOK algorithm.
• Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cihangir Tezcan
5. Melih Şırlancı. Malicious code detection: Run Trace analysis by LSTM.
• Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk
• Co-Supervisor: Dr. Pınar Gürkan Balıkçıoğlu
6. Ahmet Özdemir. Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing Technologies and Threat Sharing Model using Blockchain.
• Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Aybar Can Acar
• Co-Supervisor: Dr. Attila Özgit
7. Nazenin Şahin. Malware Detection using Transformars-Based Model GPT-2.
   • Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk
8. Sertan Selçuk. Technology Acceptance Model to Evaluate Factors Affecting Adoption of the Industrial of Things (IIOT) by the Industrial Professionals.
• Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk

2020

1. Milad Kazemi Darazam. Analysis of data flow in İoT devices and evaluating security of MUD implementation on smart home network.
• Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk
• Co-Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Pelin Angın
2. Emrah Tufan. Anomaly-based intrusion detection in an institutional network using machine learning: a case study on probing attacks.
• Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk
• Co-Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cihangir Tezcan

2019

1. Utku Kaplan. The Role of expertise on code review for security: an eye tracking study.
• Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk
2. Melih Turhanlar. Detecting Turkish phishing attacks with machine learning classifiers.
• Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk
3. Efe Suat Erdur. Continuous improvement on maturity and capability of security operation centers.
• Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk
4. Zafer Şengül. Modelling the effects of malware propagation on military operations by using bayesian network framework.
• Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk
5. Burak Çelik. Optimization of advanced encyription standard (AES) on CUDA.
• Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cihangir Tezcan
6. Özgür Ural. Automatic detection of cyber security events from Turkish twitter stream and Turkish newspaper data.
• Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk
7. Selahattin Polat. Performance evaluation of lightweight cryptographic algorithms for internet of things security.
• Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nazife Baykal
• Co-Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Tolga Yalçın
8. Mustafa Mert Karataş. Malicious user input detection on web-based attacks with the negative selection algorithm.
• Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Aybar Can Acar
9. Ahmet Serhat Demir. A Fully decentralized framework for securely sharing digital content.
• Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Aybar Can Acar
• Co-Supervisor: Dr. Ali Arifoğlu
10. Emre Mülazimoğlu. The role of visual features in text-based captchas: an fnirs study for usable security.
• Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Acartürk
11. Süleyman Fürkan Yücebaş. An Entropy based DDoS detection method and implementation.
• Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aysu Betin Can
12. Galip Oral Okan. LYNXTUN.
• Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nazife Baykal
• Co-Supervisor: Dr. Cihangir Tezcan

2017

1. Erol Doğan. Differential factors and differential cryptanalysis of block cipher PRIDE.
• Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sevgi Özkan Yıldırım
• Co-Supervisor: Dr. Cihangir Tezcan
2. Asuman Şenol. Improved differential attacks on RECTANGLE.
• Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Aysu Betin Can
• Co-Supervisor: Dr. Cihangir Tezcan