TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluating the utilization of Twitter messages as a source of security alerts
AU - Campiolo, Rodrigo
AU - Santos, Luiz Arthur F.
AU - Batista, Daniel Macêdo
AU - Gerosa, Marco Aurélio
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The fast spread of computer security alerts, like vulnerabilities notifications, applications updates and threats of attacks, is essential to the implementation of 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 even before some specialized sites.
AB - The fast spread of computer security alerts, like vulnerabilities notifications, applications updates and threats of attacks, is essential to the implementation of 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 even before some specialized sites.
KW - Information retrieval
KW - Microblogs
KW - Security
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U2 - 10.1145/2480362.2480542
DO - 10.1145/2480362.2480542
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84877961532
SN - 9781450316569
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
SP - 942
EP - 943
BT - 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2013
T2 - 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2013
Y2 - 18 March 2013 through 22 March 2013
ER -