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：网络安全建议是一个广泛的领域：它在主题上具有扩展性，涵盖专家文本、用户通过非正式学习消费的生成数据，以及介于两者之间的诸多内容。虽然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作用，但该作用的性质和程度尚不明确。我们提出了一个从主流新闻文章生成的网络安全建议语料库。该研究基于两个研究目标：第一个目标是确定正在传播的有哪些类型的可操作建议；第二个目标是探索确定新闻中介的安全建议功效潜力的方法。结果显示，网络安全新闻文章的产生量有所增加，同时词汇复杂性和阅读难度也在提高。我们认为这些可能对弱势用户构成挑战。我们相信，该语料库及附带的分析有望为未来量化并提升安全建议传播功效潜力的努力提供参考依据。