Sifting through Twitter

Presented at Kiwicon 6: The Con of the Beast (2012), Nov. 17, 2012, 1:15 p.m. (30 minutes)

The security community has heavily adopted social-media such as Twitter. However, the ratio of valuable information to noise is very high which makes it hard to use efficiently and has many limitations This presentation will demonstrate an online tool which can identify trending IT security items amongst the global community and can also build dynamic timelines of public vulnerabilities to help overcome limitations of manually maintained vulnerability repositories such as NVD. This presentation will also take a look at demographic specific trends, measuring vulnerability hype, and identifying technical vulnerability write-ups over many languages and social networks.


Presenters:

  • Matt Jones
    Matt is an Australian security researcher with current interests in vulnerability analysis, machine learning, and security visualisation. He runs Volvent Security performing code audits for major vendors to security assessments and consulting for a mix of organisations. On the side he helps out organising the Ruxcon and Breakpoint security conferences.

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