Author: Daniel Bruckner

Improved Vulnerability Detection using Deep Representation Learning

~ Daniel Bruckner

Today’s software is more vulnerable to cyber attacks than ever before. The number of recorded vulnerabilities has almost constantly increased since the early 90s. The strong competition on the software market along with many innovative technologies getting released every year forces modern software companies to spend more resources on development and less resources on software quality and testing. In 2017 alone, 14.500 new vulnerabilities were recorded by the CVE (Common Vulnerability and Exposures) database, compared to the 6.000 from the previous year. This will continue in the years to come. [1]

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Moodkoala – An intelligent Social Media application

~ Daniel Bruckner

Welcome to our blog post ‘Moodkoala – An intelligent Social Media application’. The following provides an overview of our contents.

Contents

Introduction
       – The idea behind Moodkoala
       – Technologies overview
Technologies
       – Frontend and Backend
       – Bluemix Services
       – Liberty for Java
       – Natural Language Processing
       – Tone Analyzer
       – Language Translator
       – Cloudant
       – Mood analysis with IBM Watson
       – Mood Analysis with IBM Watson Tone Analyser
       – The Mood Analysis Algorithm
       – Embedding the Tone Analyzer into the Java EE application
       – Filtering Hate comments using Natural Language Understanding
       – Natural Language Understanding
       – Summing up text analysis
       – Google and Facebook API
       – Mood imaging analysis
Implementation
       – Implementing the mood analysis algorithm
       – Deserializing JSON Strings
       – Implementing the Natural Language Processing API
       – Implementing hate comment filter into the Java EE application
       – Set up Google Sign-in
       – Set up Facebook login
       – Mood imaging implementation
       – Configuration
       – Docker and IBM Bluemix
       – Gitlab CI
       – Jenkins
Discussion and conclusion
       – Discussion Moodkoala and 12 factor app
       – Comparison to other cloud providers
       – Conclusion
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