Cyber security advice is a broad church: it is thematically expansive, comprising expert texts, user-generated data consumed by individual users via informal learning, and much in-between. While there is evidence that cyber security news articles play a role in disseminating cyber security advice, the nature and extent of that role are not clear. We present a corpus of cyber security advice generated from mainstream news articles. The work was driven by two research objectives. The first objective was to ascertain what kind of actionable advice is being disseminated; the second was to explore ways of determining the efficacy potential of news-mediated security advice. The results show an increase in the generation of cyber security news articles, together with increases in vocabulary complexity and reading difficulty. We argue that these could present challenges for vulnerable users. We believe that this corpus and the accompanying analysis have the potential to inform future efforts to quantify and improve the efficacy potential of security advice dissemination.
翻译：新闻文章中呈现的网络安全建议的功效潜力
翻译后的摘要：
网络安全建议是一个广泛的领域：它具有广泛的主题性，包括专家文本、由个人用户通过非正式学习消耗的用户生成数据以及许多相似的内容。尽管有证据表明网络安全新闻文章在传播网络安全建议方面发挥了一定的作用，但这种作用的性质和程度尚不清楚。我们提出了一个基于主流新闻文章生成的网络安全建议语料库。我们的工作受两个研究目标的驱动。第一个目标是确定正在传播什么类型的可操作建议；第二个目标是探索确定新闻媒体安全建议的功效潜力的方法。结果显示，网络安全新闻文章的产生增加了，词汇复杂度和阅读难度也随之增加。我们认为，这些可能会对脆弱用户构成挑战。我们相信，这个语料库及其附带的分析有潜力为未来量化和改进安全建议传播的功效潜力提供指导。
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