March 6th, 2013
It?s DBIR writing season for the Verizon RISK Team which means that we?re all getting together to go over this years data, analyze the changes, and examine the data in light of significant events from 2012.? Since we were looking back on 2012, I thought it might be interesting to see what we?ve been talking about in the weekly intelligence summary that we post to the blog.? And one of my favorite tools for getting the feel of a large collection of text is a word cloud.? After a few tweaks, this is what I came up with.
Looking over the word cloud, you can see that our intelligence summaries frequently report about vulnerabilities and attacks against technology like Flash, Reader, Java, and Microsoft products.? State-sponsored attacks and information about China and Iran were covered, but Anonymous was mentioned more frequently.? In fact, Anonymous is mentioned more than Iran and China put together.
There are several possible explanations for why Anonymous appears more than China or Iran, the first of which is that Anonymous seeks attention while state-sponsored threat actors would prefer to stay out of the news.? There is also the issue of attribution: it would be irresponsible to blame a state-sponsor without clear evidence and there is also skepticism in the community about the frequency of these state-sponsored threats.
The code I used to create the data for the word cloud is available on github.? As usual, I wrote it in Ruby just to annoy my coworkers.? The code will produce a list of words and the count for each word which you can then paste into http://www.wordle.net/advanced to make your own word cloud.
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Source: http://securityblog.verizonbusiness.com/2013/03/06/2012-intsum-word-cloud/
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