Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer Security
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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
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Active
- DanielPharos (talk) - 4 November 2008
- Jclemens (talk) 04:00, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
- DPdH (talk) 15:47, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
- Deadrat 2 October 2012
- The Grumpy Hacker (talk) 16:37, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- Kvng 15:52, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
- WikiGopi (talk) August 25, 2014
- Falcon Darkstar Momot (talk) 06:14, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- Maxim Stoyalov
- zazpot (talk) 21:55, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
- Aragorn (talk) 20:28, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
- Littlecat456 (talk) 15:18, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
- Vicente Aceituno Canal - 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)
- Aceing_Winter_Snows_Harsh_Cold (talk) 01:15, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
- W1tchkr4ft 00 (talk) 19:58, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- DecorumForum125 (talk) 24 September 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)
- 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)
- Tule-hog (talk) 20:31, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- Kibo no shirei-kan (talk) 09:27, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
- ShreyasMinocha (talk) 20:50, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
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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: 100% 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
Computer Security articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
GA | 4 | 9 | 14 | 27 | |||
B | 5 | 31 | 47 | 52 | 5 | 140 | |
C | 27 | 192 | 242 | 379 | 43 | 883 | |
Start | 11 | 133 | 295 | 827 | 247 | 1,513 | |
Stub | 17 | 73 | 430 | 198 | 718 | ||
List | 8 | 9 | 21 | 4 | 42 | ||
Category | 99 | 99 | |||||
Disambig | 8 | 8 | |||||
File | 7 | 7 | |||||
Project | 5 | 5 | |||||
Redirect | 14 | 16 | 46 | 172 | 248 | ||
Template | 11 | 11 | |||||
NA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
Other | 14 | 14 | |||||
Draft | 42 | 42 | |||||
Assessed | 43 | 399 | 692 | 1,770 | 359 | 497 | 3,760 |
Unassessed | 1 | 1 | |||||
Total | 43 | 399 | 692 | 1,770 | 359 | 498 | 3,761 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 15,884 | Ω = 4.84 |
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
- 24 Dec 2024 – Cydoor (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by BryceM2001 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
- 24 Dec 2024 – Appin (company) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Dmitry Bobriakov (t · c) was closed as keep by Liz (t · c) on 31 Dec 2024; see discussion (29 participants)
Proposed deletions
- 22 Dec 2024 – Separation of protection and security (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by 72.198.108.97 (t · c) was deleted
Articles to be merged
- 07 Nov 2024 – Information assurance (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Information security by Joereddington (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Sep 2024 – Privacy-invasive software (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Spyware by Jdcooper (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Jul 2024 – Norton 360 (2006–2014) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Norton 360 by Tule-hog (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 16 Feb 2024 – Pretty Good Privacy (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Feb 2023 – Security kernel (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Pppery (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Dec 2021 – Illegal opcode (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Chatul (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 11 Dec 2024 – Draft:Piratas Unidos Argentinos (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ing.Parolari (t · c)
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
2 January 2025
- diffhist PayPal Honey 06:17 +174 The Midnite Wolf talk contribs (added recent controversy to lede. feels like due weight considering it's the largest paragraph in the article) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist m PayPal Honey 06:09 −38 The Midnite Wolf talk contribs (-hat WP:NOTAMBIG) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist PayPal Honey 03:28 +91 HapHaxion talk contribs (→Controversies) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist m PayPal Honey 01:27 −1 Yoshiman6464 talk contribs (→Controversies)
- diffhist PayPal Honey 01:27 +512 Yoshiman6464 talk contribs (→Controversies)
- diffhist Appin (company) 01:17 +48 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Fixed title in ref tag.)
- diffhist 2024 United States Department of the Treasury hack 00:37 +22 ElijahPepe talk contribs (→Background)
- diffhist 2024 United States Department of the Treasury hack 00:36 +555 ElijahPepe talk contribs (→Discovery)
- diffhist Appin (company) 00:10 +6 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Updated the first sentence to use the full names of the Khare brothers for professionalism.)
1 January 2025
- diffhist Appin (company) 23:50 +263 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Cleaned up the paragraphs.)
- diffhist PayPal Honey 22:08 +27 Ymblanter talk contribs (Adding {{pp-protected}}) Tag: Twinkle
- Protection log 22:08 Ymblanter talk contribs protected PayPal Honey [Edit=Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access] (expires 22:08, 15 January 2025) (Persistent disruptive editing; requested at WP:RfPP) (hist) Tag: Twinkle
- diffhist m PayPal Honey 21:55 +4 Wafflerrs talk contribs (Reworded for clarity)
- diffhist PayPal Honey 21:52 −146 Wafflerrs talk contribs (Undid revision 1266620076 by MUzair276 (talk) Removed due to unverifiability)
- diffhist PayPal Honey 21:45 0 67.249.178.182 talk (→Controversies) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Appin (company) 19:20 +379 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Made a few small fixes.)
- diffhist PayPal Honey 18:44 −46 Tarlby talk contribs (Undid revision 1266670097 by 103.147.163.177 (talk) See WP:NOELBODY) Tags: Undo Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit App undo
- diffhist PayPal Honey 18:33 +46 103.147.163.177 talk (Added the original YouTube video link) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- diffhist m Appin (company) 18:06 +8 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Changed a few words for better flow.)
- diffhist Appin (company) 17:52 +82 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Cleaned up the paragraph.)
- diffhist Appin (company) 17:26 +9 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Small edit.)
- diffhist Appin (company) 16:18 +1,256 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Added information on Chicago Mercantile Exchange's World Intellectual Property Organization complaint regarding a phishing attack.)
- diffhist Appin (company) 15:49 +313 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Added details about Appin's subsidiary operating from military safe-houses for the Indian government.)
- diffhist Appin (company) 15:30 +329 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Added a link.)
- diffhist Appin (company) 15:18 +807 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Cleaned up the paragraph.)
- diffhist Talk:PayPal Honey 13:47 −151 Reallygreatoaktree talk contribs (Undid revision 1266623402 by Reallygreatoaktree (talk)) Tag: Undo
- diffhist Appin (company) 13:44 +1,062 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Reverted my edit and expanded on another editor's contribution; further improvements needed.)
- diffhist Talk:PayPal Honey 13:37 +151 Reallygreatoaktree talk contribs (→Adding marks in the honey scam: Reply) Tags: Reverted Reply
- diffhist PayPal Honey 13:10 +82 MUzair276 talk contribs (→Revenue)
- diffhist PayPal Honey 13:04 +64 MUzair276 talk contribs (→Revenue)
- diffhist m Appin (company) 11:15 +2 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Fixed typo.)
- diffhist m Appin (company) 11:12 +49 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Fixed the title in the ref tag.)
- diffhist Appin (company) 11:08 +72 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Added details about the influx of self-published articles praising Khare.)
- diffhist m Appin (company) 10:40 +250 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Added reference and removed unnecessary detail.)
- diffhist Appin (company) 10:37 +388 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Added how Appin's double-dipping in Indian intelligence led to their pivot to private-sector hacking services.)
- diffhist m PayPal Honey 10:13 +1 Markhoney talk contribs (→Controversies: - fix another typo) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist m PayPal Honey 09:59 0 Markhoney talk contribs (→Controversies: - fix typo) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Appin (company) 09:49 +5 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Changed corporations BACK TO corporate clients, as Appin provided hacking services to *individual corporate clients*.)
- diffhist Appin (company) 09:46 +967 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Why was the Shadowserver Foundation report on Operation Hangover removed? It's vital information that provides technical details on the hacking. The second link is one of many sites linking Operation Hangover to Appin.)
- diffhist Appin (company) 05:16 +37 Brandon talk contribs (Explain the original purpose of the company.) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Appin (company) 04:44 −11 Brandon talk contribs (Reuters doesn't say the "digital security consultancy" is successful. The following paragraph is about Appin Security Group, a separate division of Appin.) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Appin (company) 04:22 +596 Hmr talk contribs
- diffhist Appin (company) 04:16 +8 Hmr talk contribs Tag: Disambiguation links added
- diffhist Appin (company) 04:16 +64 Hmr talk contribs
- diffhist Appin (company) 04:14 −4 Hmr talk contribs
- diffhist 2024 United States Department of the Treasury hack 03:42 0 Sgbreaker talk contribs (→Reactions: US reactions should come first since this was a hack against the US government)
- diffhist PayPal Honey 03:16 0 103.106.88.248 talk (Capitalisation correction.)
- diffhist Appin (company) 03:07 +226 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Added the exact date of the Indian court order and added a link to the actual court order.)
- diffhist PayPal Honey 02:17 +1 Nice Stories talk contribs Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist PayPal Honey 02:13 +1,090 Nice Stories talk contribs Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
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