On Data and Discovery

A blog regarding analyses of underutilized datasets

Currently, posts that appear here are primarily exploratory projects written as part of my continuing education in Lambda School's Data Science course. Future iterations may modify or archive such projects.

Browser CVEs and Market Share

2019-09-30

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...