Title :
SmartNotes: Application of crowdsourcing to the detection of web threats
Author :
Sharifi, Mehrbod ; Fink, Eugene ; Carbonell, Jaime G.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
We describe a crowdsourcing system, called SmartNotes, which detects security threats related to web browsing, such as Internet scams, deceptive sales of substandard products, and websites with intentionally misleading information. It combines automatically collected data about websites with user votes and comments, and uses them to identify potential threats. We have implemented it as a browser extension, which is available for free public use.
Keywords :
Web sites; security of data; Internet scams; SmartNotes; Web browsing; Web threat detection; Websites; browser extension; crowdsourcing system; security threats; substandard product deceptive sales; Browsers; Electronic mail; Privacy; Security; Web pages; Web services; Crowdsourcing; machine learning; web security;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anchorage, AK
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0652-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6083845
