WikiProject Computer Security
WikiProject Computer Security is a collaboration of editors to work towards better coordination for Computer Security related articles. If you are interested, or are a computer security professional, please feel free to add your name to our list of participants.
Scope and Goals
WikiProject Computer Security is a collection of pages devoted to the management of computer security articles on Wikipedia. Articles that were under the scope of WikiProject Malware and Computer and Information Security Task Force have been transferred over. We aim to help set up standards of organization and presentation for articles on:
- Articles dealing with Software Vulnerabilities and Exploitation (Viruses, Adware, Spyware, etc.)
- Articles dealing with Software Security tools
- Articles dealing with Information Security issues
- Articles dealing with Managing Security (Assessment, Certification, Accreditation, etc.)
- Articles dealing with Computer Security Legislation and Standards
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Project participants
Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join this project.
Active members
- DanielPharos (talk) - 4 November 2008
- Jclemens (talk) 04:00, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
- DPdH (talk) 15:47, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
- CoMePrAdZ (talk) 00:30, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
- Pleasancoder (talk) - 28 December 2010
- LoganLopez (talk) 20:11, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- Deadrat 2 October 2012
- The Grumpy Hacker (talk) 16:37, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- Kvng 15:52, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
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量 (talk·contribs) 18:03, 13 August 2013 (UTC)- Marcus Band (talk) 14:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
- WikiGopi (talk) August 25, 2014
- Sonora_Carlos - 4 March 2015
- 27 - 3:58, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
- FockeWulf FW 190 (talk) 14:06, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
- User:Ppinia 11:30, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
- DoctorG (talk)
- --Falcon Darkstar Momot (talk) 06:14, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- Bezanson (talk) 18:02, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
- PatrikN (talk) 01:43, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
- Henrywissmiller (talk) 01:30, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
- Essem - 12:47, 22 January 2017 (CST)
- User93454235 - Mar 24 13:18:23 UTC 2017
- Maxim Stoyalov
- zazpot (talk) 21:55, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
- Rafiq Marbaros (talk) 15:57, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
- RobertWahlstedt - 12 September 2017 (UTC)
- Rooster eng (talk) 22:48, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
- Mmorga28 (talk) - 1 January 2018
- Nanophosis - 11:36, 15 January 2018 (CST)
- J_n_johan (talk) - 23 January 2018
- Pchabermann - 14 March 2018
- ZeroDaysForDays (talk) 17:10, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
- Cindy (talk) 19:48, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
- Kos360 (talk) 13:16, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- Tasneem.tech - 30 November 2018
- Samlanning (talk) 11 May 2019
- Minty tech (talk) 17:30, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
- Aragorn (talk) 20:28, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
- Mordalf (talk) 03:48, 8 Jan 2020 (UTC)
- Littlecat456 (talk) 15:18, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
- Andrew (talk) 13:18, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
- vaceituno - 3 February 2020
- WallabyWombatLet's Talk! 07:40, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
- BoldLuis (talk) - 17 May 2020.
- Tom (talk) 18:52, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
- Shahriaar (talk) 13:24, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
- AntoineLogean (talk) 18:21, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
- mickeyemc (talk) 10 August 2020
- mvb71 (talk) 16 October 2020
- Aceing_Winter_Snows_Harsh_Cold (talk) 01:15, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
- W1tchkr4ft 00 W1tchkr4ft 00 (talk) 19:58, 24 February 2021 (UTC) Interested in mostly criminal and political hacking such as hacktivism
BreakingMuse
(talk) 26 March 2021- RexRedEdit78 (talk) 1 June 2021
- Bill Woodcock (talk) 07:05, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
- Y.ssk 08:18, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
- DecorumForum125 (talk) 24 September 2021
- Larry Leibrock (talk) 18:00 16 Nov 2021
- AlchemistsFire (talk) 21:52, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
- Somers-all-the-time (talk) 01:08, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
- Yaakovaryeh (talk) 19:44, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- Autarch Autarch (talk) 22:29, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
- Nemoveritas (talk) 17:17, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
- crtn32002 (talk) 07:02, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
- Priyanshu1Rai (talk) - 07 April 2023
- Bibamad (talk) - 17 July 2023
- Lilliraune (talk) 15:48, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
- CybersecChloe (talk) - 21:59, 30 December 2023 (UCT)
- MrLavoie (talk) - 20:03, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
- User:NoneTheFewer (talk) - 13:25, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
- EnEsBeetalk to me please im lonely :( 00:23, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- Brandon (talk) 00:01, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- mcgyver5 (talk) 16:46, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
Userbox
Userbox template
Participants of this WikiProject can add this Userbox to their User page:
WikiProject Computer Security is a participant in WikiProject Computer Security. |
To add the Userbox insert the following to the your user page:
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer Security/Userbox}}
Todo list
- Review importance and quality of existing articles
- Identify categories related to Computer Security
- Tag related articles
- Identify articles for creation (see also: Article requests)
- Identify articles for improvement
- Create the Project Navigation Box including lists of adopted articles, requested articles, reviewed articles, etc.
- Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
Tagging and Assessment
Templates
Tagging
Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the project banners of WikiProject Computer Security:
Computer Security: Computing Unassessed | |||||||||||||||
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To tag an article insert the following to the top of the discussion page of the article:
{{WikiProject Computer Security|class=|importance=|computing-importance=}}
Articles already in the computing wikiproject can be added to the computer security project by adding security=yes and security-importance= parameters to the computing banner template. For example:
{{WikiProject Computing|class=|importance=|security=yes|security-importance=}}
Assessment
Articles assessed for quality: 99.6% complete | ||
Anyone can assess articles (regardless of membership to the WikiProject) by adding or editing the class
and importance
parameters to the {{WikiProject Computer Security}} template on the talk page of a tagged article. Assessments can be specifically requested (or the process discussed) on the Computer Security/Assessment page.
Project Articles
Quality scale
The quality scale is the WikiProject computing scale.
The B-Class criteria are: (1) referenced; (2) coverage; (3) structure; (4) grammar; (5) supporting materials; (6) accessible language.
Importance scale
Importance | Criteria | Examples |
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Top | Core articles which are a "must have" for Wikiproject Computer Security. High-traffic articles which many people outside of computer security will already have a good knowledge of. |
Computer security, Computer insecurity, Firewall, Malware |
High | Most people interested in computer security will be familiar with the topic, and the article gives context to a number of other information security articles. Is mentioned by many books and academic papers, and discussed in detail in more than one. | Port scanner, Bruce Schneier |
Mid | Known to many people interested in computer security, even if not in detail. | Chaos Computer Club, Snort (software), Morris worm |
Low | More specific and specialized content known only to some people interested in computer security. Most individuals, standards and software projects will be low importance unless they are well known or have high adoption. |
CloudFlare, Datenschleuder |
Article watch
Categories
One of the important activities of this project is to manage the list of Categories related to Computer Security.
Article alerts
Articles for deletion
- 31 Aug 2024 – Anti-Subversion Software (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Sohom Datta (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 29 Aug 2024 – Fidelis Security (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Scope creep (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 29 Aug 2024 – Backdoor.Win32.Seed (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Sohom Datta (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 29 Aug 2024 – Bolgimo (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Sohom Datta (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 29 Aug 2024 – Bohmini.A (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Sohom Datta (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 27 Aug 2024 – Committee on National Security Systems (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 25 Aug 2024 – Arrest of Pavel Durov (talk · · hist) was AfDed by GenevieveDEon (t · c); see discussion (57 participants)
- 21 Aug 2024 – Daniel B. Cid (talk · · hist) was AfDed by PhotographyEdits (t · c); see discussion (1 participant; relisted)
Proposed deletions
- 28 Aug 2024 – AI (computer virus) (talk · · hist) was PRODed by Sohom Datta (t · c): non-notable
- 27 Aug 2024 – Stealth Key (talk · · hist) was PRODed by Iforgotmyname121 (t · c): a) Advertising since the beginning of the page b) Notability. Also arguably qualifies for WP:SPEEDY by G11?
- 25 Aug 2024 – Secure by default (talk · · hist) was PRODed by Sirfurboy (t · c): Completely unsourced OR and written as a definition, not as an encyclopaedic notable subject. WP:NOT applies.
Good article nominees
- 17 Aug 2024 – Infostealer (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Sohom Datta (t · c); start
- 25 Aug 2024 – IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (talk · · hist) GA nominated by Sohom Datta (t · c) was promoted by CursedWithTheAbilityToDoTheMath (t · c), see discussion
Requested moves
- 28 Aug 2024 – Arrest of Pavel Durov (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to Indictment and arrest of Pavel Durov by Sir Kenneth Kho (t · c); see discussion
- 21 Aug 2024 – 2012 Yahoo! Voices hack (talk · · hist) move request to 2012 Yahoo Voices hack by SilverLocust (t · c) was moved to 2012 Yahoo Voices hack (talk · · hist); see discussion
- 21 Aug 2024 – Yahoo! data breaches (talk · · hist) move request to Yahoo data breaches by SilverLocust (t · c) was moved to Yahoo data breaches (talk · · hist); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 07 Jul 2024 – Norton 360 (2006–2014) (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Norton 360 by Tule-hog (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Jun 2024 – Westwood (computer virus) (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Jerusalem_(computer_virus) by HamburgerRadio (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Jun 2024 – Sunday (computer virus) (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Jerusalem_(computer_virus) by HamburgerRadio (t · c); see discussion
- 12 Jun 2024 – Code Shikara (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Dorkbot (malware) by HamburgerRadio (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 16 Feb 2024 – Pretty Good Privacy (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Feb 2023 – Security kernel (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Pppery (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Dec 2021 – Illegal opcode (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Chatul (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 30 Aug 2024 – Draft:Phuong Cao (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Zmmengineering7 (t · c)
- 20 Apr 2024 – Draft:Group-IB (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Synchaas (t · c)
- 09 Apr 2024 – Draft:Cyber Threat Alliance (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by KELSEYBESTERMAN (t · c)
- 15 Aug 2024 – Draft:Shuly Wintner (talk · · hist) submitted for AfC by 2A00:A040:1A4:805D:F5CD:BDFF:D56A:BA07 (t · c) was declined by Devonian Wombat (t · c) on 28 Aug 2024
Recent changes
List of abbreviations (help):
- D
- Edit made at Wikidata
- r
- Edit flagged by ORES
- N
- New page
- m
- Minor edit
- b
- Bot edit
- (±123)
- Page byte size change
1 September 2024
- diffhist Aqua Security 23:49 −18 Gidonb talk contribs (cleanup)
- diffhist Aqua Security 23:49 −50 Gidonb talk contribs (presently debated)
- Page curation log 22:13 Dan Leonard talk contribs marked Aqua Security for deletion with [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aqua Security]] tag Tag: PageTriage
- diffhist Aqua Security 22:13 +732 Dan Leonard talk contribs (Nominated page for deletion using Page Curation (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aqua Security)) Tag: PageTriage
- Page curation log 22:13 Dan Leonard talk contribs marked the article Aqua Security as reviewed Tag: PageTriage
- diffhist N Talk:Aqua Security 22:11 +285 Dan Leonard talk contribs (Added WikiProject banners to talk page) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- Page curation log 22:07 Dan Leonard talk contribs tagged Aqua Security with notability and advert tags Tag: PageTriage
- diffhist Aqua Security 22:07 +100 Dan Leonard talk contribs (Added tags to the page using Page Curation (notability, advert)) Tag: PageTriage
- Deletion log 17:30 Liz talk contribs deleted page Talk:Secure by default (G8: Talk page of deleted page "Secure by default") Tag: Twinkle
- Deletion log 17:30 Liz talk contribs deleted page Secure by default (Expired PROD, concern was: Completely unsourced OR and written as a definition, not as an encyclopaedic notable subject. WP:NOT applies.) Tag: Twinkle
- diffhist 2024 WazirX hack 13:45 −6 CharlieMehta talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- Page curation log 04:04 Clovermoss talk contribs marked the redirect Yahoo! data breaches as reviewed Tag: PageTriage
- Page curation log 03:52 Clovermoss talk contribs marked the redirect 2012 Yahoo! Voices hack as reviewed Tag: PageTriage
31 August 2024
- diffhist Iframe virus 18:30 −3,792 Sohom Datta talk contribs (Merged content to Malvertising, redirecting (easy-merge)) Tag: New redirect
- diffhist Talk:Iframe virus 18:30 +32 Sohom Datta talk contribs (Adding {{merged-to|Malvertising}} and adjusting WikiProject banners (easy-merge))
- Move log 18:12 Sohom Datta talk contribs moved page HyperCard viruses to List of HyperCard viruses
- diffhist HTTP Switchboard 18:06 −3,185 Sohom Datta talk contribs (Doesn't appear to be covered extensively by RS, appears to have been a precursor to uBlock (via redirect-helper)) Tag: New redirect
- diffhist Talk:Talon Cyber Security 18:02 +16 Supyovalk talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Computer Security, Israel (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee 17:59 +3 Sohom Datta talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell (Rater))
- diffhist 2024 WazirX hack 17:15 +17 CharlieMehta talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist 2024 WazirX hack 16:38 +760 CharlieMehta talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist 2024 WazirX hack 16:34 0 CharlieMehta talk contribs (→Hack) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist 2024 WazirX hack 16:34 +357 CharlieMehta talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist 2024 WazirX hack 16:33 −15 CharlieMehta talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist 2024 WazirX hack 16:32 +659 CharlieMehta talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- Move log 16:14 Sohom Datta talk contribs moved page Class (warez) to Class (pirating group)
- diffhist Talk:Click fraud 16:11 −4 Sohom Datta talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Computing (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Boehm garbage collector 15:13 −47 Sohom Datta talk contribs (cleanup)
- diffhist Talk:Anti-pharming 14:49 +34 Sohom Datta talk contribs (+)
- diffhist Anti-pharming 14:45 −3,273 Sohom Datta talk contribs (←Redirected page to Pharming) Tags: New redirect Visual edit: Switched
- diffhist Talk:2024 WazirX hack 14:35 +1 Sohom Datta talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Computing (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:FRISK Software International 14:11 +1 Sohom Datta talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Companies, Computing (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Reproducible builds 06:26 +2 Sohom Datta talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Computing (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Padding oracle attack 06:25 +19 Sohom Datta talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, Cryptography, Computing (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Gpg4win 06:20 −9 Sohom Datta talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Computing (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Discretionary access control 06:20 +6 Sohom Datta talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Computing (Low) (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Control system security 06:18 +3 Sohom Datta talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Computing (Rater))
30 August 2024
- diffhist N Talk:IT Service Continuity 04:31 +241 GoingBatty talk contribs (added WikiProjects)
- diffhist IT Service Continuity 04:29 +18 GoingBatty talk contribs (added redirect template)
- diffhist IT Service Continuity 04:28 −2 GoingBatty talk contribs (fixed redirect) Tag: Redirect target changed
- diffhist IT Service Continuity 04:27 −84 GoingBatty talk contribs (Undid revision 1243021278 by Dr vulpes (talk) - revert incorrect fix) Tags: New redirect Undo
- Page curation log 03:20 Dr vulpes talk contribs marked the article IT Service Continuity as reviewed Tag: PageTriage
- diffhist IT Service Continuity 01:44 +84 Dr vulpes talk contribs (→top: WP:WPCHECK Different number of brackets, added orphan, stub, uncategorised tags) Tags: AWB Removed redirect Reverted
29 August 2024
- Move log 06:48 BilledMammal talk contribs moved page 2012 Yahoo! Voices hack to 2012 Yahoo Voices hack over redirect (Moved per Special:Permalink/1242858134#Requested move 21 August 2024 using Move+)
- Deletion log 06:48 BilledMammal talk contribs deleted redirect 2012 Yahoo Voices hack by overwriting (G6: Deleted to make way for move from 2012 Yahoo! Voices hack)
- Move log 06:43 BilledMammal talk contribs moved page Yahoo! data breaches to Yahoo data breaches over redirect (Moved per Special:Permalink/1242858134#Requested move 21 August 2024 using Move+)
- Deletion log 06:43 BilledMammal talk contribs deleted redirect Yahoo data breaches by overwriting (G6: Deleted to make way for move from Yahoo! data breaches)
- diffhist Talk:Digital DawgPound 04:19 −1 Sohom Datta talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Computing (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:David Litchfield 04:15 +7 Sohom Datta talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Biography (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Dawson Engler 04:15 +3 Sohom Datta talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Biography (Rater))
High-quality content
The featured articles are what Wikipedia editors believe are the best articles in Wikipedia, and the status which all articles should eventually achieve. Before being listed here, articles are reviewed at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style according to our featured article criteria. Bold article names have been featured on the Main Page as "Today's featured article".
The following computer security related articles have been deemed Good Articles, which places them two tiers below Featured Articles.
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