On Data and Discovery
A blog regarding analyses of underutilized datasets
The Mitre Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system, provides a reference system for publicly known software vulnerabilities. Any time a new vulnerability is discovered, it is assigned a CVE ID and added to the CVE list. NIST maintains the U.S. National Vulnerability Database (NVD), which is a synchronized database of all CVEs. Today, I will be using the NVD CVE dataset to identify how the number of reported CVEs has varied over time for five popular browsers.
...More to come...