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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7661137 | Distributed computation in untrusted computing environments using distractive computational units An apparatus, program product and method initiate the execution of distractive computational units along with the execution of other computational units on an untrusted computer to inhibit the reconstitution of a computation by an untrusted party. In particular, alo... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7661135 | Apparatus, system, and method for gathering trace data indicative of resource activity An apparatus, system, and method are provided for gathering trace data indicative of resource activity on a computer system. The present invention includes a monitoring module that initiates one or more activity monitors on a target computer system to detect differe... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657935 | System and methods for detecting malicious email transmission A system and methods of detecting an occurrence of a violation of an email security policy of a computer system. A model relating to the transmission of prior emails through the computer system is defined which is derived from statistics relating to the prior emails... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657936 | Method for preventing time of check to time of use exploits A method for preventing time of check to time of use exploits includes receiving a system call from a user space at a system call intercept and copying user space parameters from the user space to a kernel space responsive to the system call. The method also include... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657934 | Architecture to thwart denial of service attacks A monitoring device is disposed to thwart denial of service attacks on a data center. The monitoring device is a device that collects statistical information on packets that are sent between a network and the data center for a plurality of customers by examining tra... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653940 | Tracing and identifying piracy in wireless digital rights management system Provides methods for tracing and identifying a piracy in a wireless rights management system, wherein the content provider allow the protected digital content to be super-distributed, when unauthorized holding a pirated copy of the protected digital content is detec... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653941 | System and method for detecting an infective element in a network environment A method for detecting an infective element in a network environment is provided that includes detecting, by a first computer, an infective element within a second computer. A signal is generated and communicated that identifies the second computer as being associat... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7647633 | Malicious mobile code runtime monitoring system and methods Protection systems and methods provide for protecting one or more personal computers (“PCs”) and/or other intermittently or persistently network accessible devices or processes from undesirable or otherwise malicious operations of Java™ applets, ActiveX™ con... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7647634 | Managing access to a network One embodiment of the invention is directed to managing access of a host computer to a network. A first communication session with the host computer may be conducted to authenticate the host computer's identity. A second communication session with the host computer ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7647631 | Automated user interaction in application assessment Various embodiments of systems, methods, software tools, etc. for performing an assessment of an application are provided. One embodiment comprises a method for performing an assessment of a web application. One such method comprises: recording user interactions wit... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7647632 | Object reference in a system A system can be configured using configuration objects that have the ability to refer to one another. In one embodiment, the present invention includes such a system having a plurality of objects used to configure the system, each object having a uniform resource id... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7644438 | Security event aggregation at software agent A network security system can have a plurality of distributed software agents configured to collect security events from network devices. In one embodiment, the agents are configured to aggregate the security events. In one embodiment of the present invention, an ag... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7640584 | System and method for enhancing computer security A method for enhancing security of a computer system is provided. The computer system may include a plurality of microprocessors and a security management processor for managing execution of applications in isolation on the plurality of microprocessors. Each of the ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7640585 | Intrusion detection sensor detecting attacks against wireless network and system and method of detecting wireless network intrusion An intrusion detection system and method of a wireless network providing wireless communication to one or more wireless terminal, and an intrusion detection sensor capable of detecting attacks against wireless network are provided. The intrusion detection system of ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7640583 | Method and system for protecting anti-malware programs In general, embodiments of the present invention provide protection for anti-malware software programs (also referred to herein as anti-malware) that is in addition to the protection that currently exists. In particular, instead of only protecting anti-malware progr... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7636943 | Method and system for detecting blocking and removing spyware In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a method for detecting spyware activity, the method comprises the steps of: monitoring outgoing communication data sent from a user's computer; searching for predefined keywords within the communication data; indic... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7636944 | Method and apparatus for detecting and responding to email based propagation of malicious software in a trusted network Embodiments of the invention provide a method and an apparatus for detecting and responding to email based propagation of malicious software (malware) in a trusted network. One embodiment provides a detector decoy email account to serve as generic bait for malicious... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7636942 | Method and system for detecting denial-of-service attack A monitoring device monitors a packet transmitted to a communication device that is a target of the denial-of-service attack, and detects traffic abnormality information indicating an abnormality of traffic due to the packet with respect to the communication device.... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7634809 | Detecting unsanctioned network servers An enterprise network can have sanctioned and unsanctioned servers on it. Sanctioned servers are approved by an administrator and perform tasks such as web page serving and mail routing. Unsanctioned servers are not approved by the administrator and represent possib... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7634807 | System and method to establish and maintain conditional trust by stating signal of distrust A system and method is provided that establishes and maintains conditional trust by stating a signal of distrust from a trustee's computing platform to a trustor's computing platform. The trustor attests a trustee at a given time and also sends trust conditions to t... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7634808 | Method and apparatus to block fast-spreading computer worms that use DNS MX record queries Parameters of DNS transactions associated with DNS MX record queries, which may be performed by mass-mailing worms from a host computer system, are detected at a DNS proxy and collected. An outbound SMTP transaction, such as an e-mail message, received at an SMTP pr... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7634806 | Peer assembly inspection A method and system for preventing undesired behaviors by executable code modules in a peer-to-peer computer system are provided. When a code module is received, an assembly inspection module queries a blacklist for the received code module. When the received code m... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7634810 | Phishing detection, prevention, and notification Phishing detection, prevention, and notification is described. In an embodiment, a messaging application facilitates communication via a messaging user interface, and receives a communication, such as an email message, from a domain. A phishing detection module dete... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7634811 | Validation of secure sockets layer communications Computer-implemented methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for thwarting computer attacks. A method embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of examining (52) a digital certificate (20) presented by a server computer (2);... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7631353 | Blocking replication of e-mail worms Computer-implemented methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for blocking the replication of computer worms in a computer. A method of the present invention comprises the steps of: for an e-mail program installed on the computer, finding the location of a tem... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7631354 | System security agent authentication and alert distribution An aggregation agent may combine and correlate information generated by multiple on-host agents and/or information generated in response to multiple security events. The aggregation agent may transmit the combined information to a security console. The security cons... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7627897 | Method and apparatus for a reactive defense against illegal distribution of multimedia content in file sharing networks A system for external monitoring of networked digital file sharing to track predetermined data content, the system comprising: at least one surveillance element for deployment over said network, said surveillance elements comprising: surveillance functionality for s... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7624443 | Method and system for a self-heating device A self-healing device is provided in which changes made between the time that an infection resulting from an attack on the device was detected and an earlier point in time to which the device is capable of being restored may be recovered based, at least in part, on ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7624442 | Memory security device for flexible software environment A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a processor for executing application code from a memory and a verifier processor arranged to receive the application code via the same internal bus as the processor. The verifier processor performs a verification function... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7620986 | Defenses against software attacks in distributed computing environments The invention provides apparatus and methods for defending against attacks in a distributed computing environment, including (1) distinguishing attack traffic patterns from legitimate traffic patterns, (2) responsive to nature of message patterns; (3) attack traffic... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7620984 | Method of managing computer system An embodiment of a method of managing a computer system begins with a step of placing a virtual machine monitor on a computer. The virtual machine monitor includes an interface for a module. The method continues with a step of forming a computing platform on the com... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7620985 | Flood attack projection model A flood attack of an information system is simulated by injecting an algorithmically compressed flood attack model into the information system to assess the effect of the attack upon the system. The flood attack model propagates from node to node throughout the syst... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7620983 | Behavior profiling Providing security comprises accessing a database configured to store operational information associated with a process, determining a first behavior using the operational information wherein the first behavior is associated with the process, monitoring the process,... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7620987 | Obfuscating computer code to prevent an attack A method and system for obfuscating computer code of a program to protect it from the adverse effects of malware is provided. The obfuscation system retrieves an executable form of the computer code. The obfuscation system then selects various obfuscation techniques... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7617534 | Detection of SYSENTER/SYSCALL hijacking Techniques are disclosed for detecting manipulations of user-kernel transition registers (such as the SYSENTER/SYSCALL critical registers of Intel/AMD processors, respectively), and other such registers. In one embodiment, a register monitor agent is deployed at sys... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7617532 | Protection of sensitive data from malicious e-mail Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media protect sensitive data from being submitted in response to malicious e-mail. Responsive to initiating interaction with a remote site by clicking on a link, a method for protecting sensitive data from being submitted ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7617531 | Inferencing data types of message components A security gateway receives messages and extracts components thereof, typically in the form of field name-value pairs. The security gateway determines a data type of the values for individual field names to infer the most restrictive data type of the values for that... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7617533 | Self-quarantining network Mitigating network security threats through a self-quarantining network is disclosed. Traffic received from a local source via a physical port is monitored. If a threat is detected, traffic associated with the physical port is restricted. In some embodiments, the mo... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7614083 | Process control methods and apparatus for intrusion detection, protection and network hardening The invention provides an improved network and methods of operation thereof for use in or with process control systems, computer-based manufacturing or production control systems, environmental control systems, industrial control system, and the like (collectively, ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7610622 | Supporting options in a communication session using a TCP cookie A defender operable to support options in a communication session intercepts a connection request packet sent from a client to a server. The defender identifies a client option combination associated with the client from the connection request packet. The defender e... | 10/27/2009 |
