The Conficker Working Group (C.W.G.) work allowed to study and analyze the use of collective intelligence as a way to fight against certain types of malware. In this post I summarize some of the lessons learned thanks to their experience, which are applicable to collective intelligence initiatives that involve large groups of people.
Tag: cybersecurity
Collective Intelligence Vs Malware: Conficker Working group
Crowdsourcing can be applied in many and diferent areas. One of these, that is getting more importance ultimately because how it affects the day to day of people, is cibersecurity. Also in this area, crowdsourcing, although unconscientenly, has been used to fight against malware.