"CERT/CC Launches Twitter Bot to Give Security Bugs Random Names"

The Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) at the Carnegie Mellon University launched a Twitter bot named Vulnonym to assign random names to security bugs that receive a CVE identifier. The idea is to give neural names to security vulnerabilities as names assigned to bugs by companies and researchers increasingly enter the area of fearmongering and attention-seeking. Names given to vulnerabilities have resulted in severe flaws being played down or unexploitable bugs being overhyped. The Vulnonym bot will provide each newly-assigned CVE ID a two-word codename in an adjective-noun format. This article continues to discuss the problem with vulnerability names and how the Vulnonym bot addresses this problem.

ZDNet reports "CERT/CC Launches Twitter Bot to Give Security Bugs Random Names"