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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Muhammed Fatih Bulut, Ossining, NY (US);
Lisa Chavez, Placitas, NM (US);
Jinho Hwang, Ossining, NY (US);
Anup Kalia, Elmsford, NY (US);
Virginia Mayo Policarpio, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Sai Zeng, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system of identifying a computing device vulnerability is provided. Social media communication is monitored. Social media threads that are related to a vulnerability, based on the monitored social media communication, are identified, filtered, and categorized into one or more predetermined categories of computing device vulnerabilities. Upon determining that a number of social media posts related to the vulnerability is above a first predetermined threshold, one or more dependable social media threads in a same one or more categories as the vulnerability are searched. One or more possible root causes of the vulnerability are determined from the searched dependable social media threads. A validity score for each of the one or more possible root causes is assigned. A possible root cause from that has a highest validity score that is above a second predetermined threshold is selected to be the root cause of the vulnerability.