Analysis of security messages posted on twitter

Luiz Arthur F. Santos, Rodrigo Campiolo, Marco Aurélio Gerosa, Daniel Macêdo Batista

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Abstract

The fast spread of computer security alerts, like vulnerabilities notifications, applications updates and threats of attacks, is essential to efficient reactive measures against security incidents. This paper presents an empirical study that evaluates the efficiency of using twitter posts, related to computer security, as notifications of security alerts. The justification to this study is the fact that posts from microblogs have a very fast spread over the Internet. By using similarity analysis and clustering between twitter posts and alerts from specialized sites, it was verified that microblogs spread computer security alerts in a reliable way, reach a high level of dissemination and inform about security threats before some specialized sites.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 9th Brazilian Symposium on Collaborative Systems, SBSC 2012
Pages20-28
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event9th Brazilian Symposium on Collaborative Systems, SBSC 2012 - Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Duration: Oct 15 2012Oct 18 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings - 9th Brazilian Symposium on Collaborative Systems, SBSC 2012

Conference

Conference9th Brazilian Symposium on Collaborative Systems, SBSC 2012
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CitySao Paulo, SP
Period10/15/1210/18/12

Keywords

  • information retrieval
  • microblogs
  • security
  • social network analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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