Papers by Evan Wright
Analyzing the Perceived Severity of Cybersecurity Threats Reported on Social Media (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | 6,000 tweets describe software vulnerabilities, which are shared across a range of websites and social media platforms. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to link software vulnerabilities reported in tweets to CVEs in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) a Precision@50 of 0.86 is achieved when forecasting high severity vulnerabilities, they show . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baseline methods based on tweet volume and the language used to describe them online. |