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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8141154 | System and method for inspecting dynamically generated executable code A method for protecting a client computer from dynamically generated malicious content, including receiving at a gateway computer content being sent to a client computer for processing, the content including a call to an original function, and the call including an ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141149 | Keyword obfuscation Embodiments of the invention provide novel systems, methods and software for searching and/or analyzing text, based on a list of one or more keywords of interest. In a set of embodiments, a first computer generates a regular expression satisfied by a particular keyw... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141150 | Method and apparatus for automatic identification of phishing sites from low-level network traffic A module is configured to identify a phishing Web site. The module identifies email associated with a Web site and transmitted to a plurality of recipients. The module then determines that the Web site has received less than a first threshold amount of traffic befor... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141153 | Method and apparatus for detecting executable software in an alternate data stream A method and apparatus of detecting executable software in alternate data streams to secure operation of a computer comprises processing information regarding a file requested for execution and determining an alternate data stream associated with the file, wherein t... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141147 | System, method and apparatus for use in monitoring or controlling internet access An apparatus, method and system for use in categorizing Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) when controlling or monitoring access to the Internet from a client. A request message is generated to request categorization of a specified URL. The request message comprises a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141151 | Non-intrusive monitoring of services in a service-oriented architecture A method for monitoring a service provided in a service-oriented architecture may include submitting a subscription request to a plurality of intermediaries in the service-oriented architecture from which to receive monitored data related to the service and determin... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135994 | Methods, media, and systems for detecting an anomalous sequence of function calls Methods, media, and systems for detecting an anomalous sequence of function calls are provided. The methods can include compressing a sequence of function calls made by the execution of a program using a compression model; and determining the presence of an anomalou... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8136155 | Security system with methodology for interprocess communication control A security system with methodology for interprocess communication control is described. In one embodiment, a method for controlling interprocess communication is provided that includes steps of: defining rules indicating which system services a given application can... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8136157 | Program providing device, storage medium, and vehicle-mounted information system A program providing device include an emulation means for emulating a hardware environment and a software environment of a vehicle-mounted information system, a program receiving means for receiving a program which is developed for the vehicle-mounted information sy... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8136158 | User-level segmentation mechanism that facilitates safely executing untrusted native code A system that uses segmentation to safely execute native code. This system includes a processing element that executes the native code and a memory which stores code and data for the processing element. The processing element includes a segmentation mechanism which ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8136156 | Module with a controller for a chip card In a module with a controller for a chip card, the controller having first and second I/O pads for data input and output, and the module having one I/O pad. Both of the first and second I/O pads of the controller are connected to only the one I/O pad of the module. ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132257 | Anti-virus method based on security chip An anti-virus method based on a security chip according to the present invention is provided. The method comprises the following steps: a hash value obtained by a hashing operation for a computer key file and a system control program are stored in a memory of the se... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131666 | Context-based user authentication, workflow processing, and data management in a centralized application in communication with a plurality of third-party applications Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for providing context-based user authentication, workflow processing and data management in a centralized application in communication with a plurality of third-party applicat... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127354 | System, method, and computer program product for identifying vulnerabilities associated with data loaded in memory A system, method, and computer program product are provided for identifying vulnerabilities associated with data loaded in memory. In operation, a subset of data that is loaded in memory is identified. Additionally, the subset of data is compared to a list of known ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127355 | System and method for protecting network resources from denial of service attacks The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for protecting network resources from denial of service attacks. In one exemplary embodiment, a responder stores an access filter value used to determine whether an incoming message frame has been tran... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126866 | Identification of possible scumware sites by a search engine Users may be protected from scumware included on or associated with web sites indexed by a search engine. The search engine may, for instance take the presence of scumware into account when ranking or determining whether a document matches a search query or provide ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127353 | Real-time user awareness for a computer network A computer system, device, computer software, and/or method performed by a computer system, is provided for determining a user name likely to be associated with an attack, a configuration, or a vulnerability. First data is obtained which associates user names with i... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127352 | Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium An information processing system which includes a compound content generation apparatus and a compound content consumption apparatus and processes a plurality of protected contents, the compound content generation apparatus comprising a compound content generation u... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122502 | Detecting the presence of an installation on a data processing system based on the relative storage locations of one or more files The presence of an installation on a data processing system may be detected by providing a signature that includes m files having paths associated therewith, respectively. A number n files on the data processing system are determined that match files in the signatur... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122503 | Methods and systems for managing a potential security threat to a network Methods, systems and computer readable mediums storing computer executable programs for managing a potential security threat to a network are disclosed. Network data received at a network system within a network is monitored at a network management system. A determi... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122500 | Tracking the security enforcement in a grid system The “Grid Security Monitor” tracks the security status of resources in a grid computer system. When a client submits a job to the grid scheduler, the Grid Security Monitor creates a security contract. The security contract comprises all the security credentials ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122504 | 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... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122501 | Traitor detection for multilevel assignment One embodiment of the present invention includes a method for traitor tracing that includes performing an inner code traitor tracing on a recovered pirated digital file, the recovered digital file incorporating an inner code for assigning segments of the digital fil... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122499 | Network security apparatus and method A network security system and method performs quantifying and billing for network security consumed during a period of time. Implementations may include billing server configured to calculate the security protection consumed by calculating damages avoided from attac... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122498 | Combined multiple-application alert system and method A system, method and computer program product are provided for combined alerting. Initially, an event is identified. First information relating to a first response to the event associated with a first application is received. Further received is second information r... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117656 | Detecting surreptitious spyware Tools and techniques are provided for detecting a particular type of spyware. Network activities and user update activities are monitored automatically, and the results are analyzed to identify related processes which perform network transmissions without performing... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117655 | Detecting anomalous web proxy activity A method, system and apparatus for detecting anomalous web proxy activity by end-users are disclosed. The techniques include analyzing records from a web proxy log and determining whether the records contain anomalous end-user activity by inspecting a uniform resour... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117654 | Implementation of malware countermeasures in a network device Embodiments include a system, an apparatus, a device, and a method. An embodiment provides a network device. The network device includes an information store operable to save a countermeasure useable in at least substantially reducing a harm caused by a malware (her... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112800 | Multi-layered application classification and decoding An intrusion detection system is described that is capable of applying a plurality of stacked (layered) application-layer decoders to extract encapsulated application-layer data from a tunneled packet flow produced by multiple applications operating at the applicati... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112801 | Method and apparatus for detecting malware A method of detecting malware may include: a) examining header data in each PDU transferred by a port of an access switch to identify PDUs transferred from a local network device, b) extracting a far-end device address for PDUs based at least in part on examination ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112799 | Method, system, and computer program product for avoiding cross-site scripting attacks A system and method for protecting a user against a cross-site scripting attack or other network attack that relies on scripting code embedded within a uniform resource locator (URL) are described. Validation software executing on a client computer system may interc... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112798 | Hardware-aided software code measurement Described is an independent computation environment that is built into one or more hardware components of a computer system, wherein the independent computation environment hosts a logic that measures the health of other software code that executes in memory. Exampl... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112802 | Verification of outsourced data streams Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to verifying query results of an untrusted server. A data owner outsources a data stream to the untrusted server, which is configured to respond to a query from a client with the query result, which is returned to the client... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108928 | Adaptive traitor tracing One embodiment of the present invention includes a method for traitor tracing that selects a probability distribution for the assignment of file-segment variations in a digital file. This probability distribution is selected to improve traceability for a particular ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8104086 | Heuristically detecting spyware/adware registry activity Methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for detecting the presence of malicious computer code in a computer. In a method embodiment, persistence points in an operating system of the computer are examined (31). When a pointer to a temporary directory is... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8104087 | Systems and methods for automated data anomaly correction in a computer network Systems and methods for correcting an anomaly in a target computer that is part of a network of computers. An anomaly is detected in data stored on a target computer and it is determined what corrective data is needed to correct the anomaly. A donor computer with th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099781 | Method of managing and mitigating security risks through planning An exemplary method is provided for managing and mitigating security risks through planning. A first security-related information of a requested product is received. A second security-related information of resources that are available for producing the requested pr... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099782 | Event aggregation in a network A network system can have a plurality of distributed software agents configured to collect events from network devices. In one embodiment, the agents are configured to aggregate the events. In one embodiment of the present invention, an agent includes a device inter... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099780 | Message screening system A message screening system includes routing to a supervisory recipient an electronic message directed to an intended recipient. The supervisory recipient then is allowed to screen the electronic message by approving or rejecting the electronic message. The electroni... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095979 | Analysis of event information to perform contextual audit Analysis of audit information that takes into account a wide context allows for a rich picture from which system conditions may be assessed. Event information about various events that have occurred or are occurring, on various sources in the computing arrangement, ... | 01/10/2012 |
