This is a good website for lots of general cybersecurity datasets: http://www.secrepo.com/

Malware Samples

• Large dataset: https://github.com/sophos/SOREL-20M
• Malware from 2010-today: https://www.vx-underground.org/

Gathering Data

• Static features for PE malware classification: https://github.com/elastic/ember
• Dynamic features for clustering PE malware …

For fun, I've recently created my own Markov text generator.

Explanation

A Markov text generator takes a piece of text as input and outputs new text that is seemingly random. It may even make syntactical and/or semantic sense if properly seeded with input text.

It accomplishes this by splitting …

Read these first

• How to read a paper (2007)
• How (and how not) to write a good systems paper
• Writing a Problem Statement
• Writing a Thesis Statement
• Research as a Stochastic Decision Process

Papers

You can find all of these on Google Scholar

• Computer security threat monitoring and surveillance (1980 …