• DocumentCode
    2379476
  • 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
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    9-12 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1346
  • Lastpage
    1350
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Anchorage, AK
  • ISSN
    1062-922X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0652-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6083845
  • Filename
    6083845