Invention Grant
- Patent Title: User activity-triggered URL scan
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Application No.: US16506267Application Date: 2019-07-09
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Publication No.: US11411991B2Publication Date: 2022-08-09
- Inventor: Oliver G. Devane , Abhishek Karnik
- Applicant: McAfee, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: McAfee, LLC
- Current Assignee: McAfee, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Patent Capital Group
- Main IPC: H04L9/40
- IPC: H04L9/40 ; G06F16/953

Abstract:
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; a network interface; a user-space application including instructions to interact with a web site via a uniform resource locator (URL); and a security agent including instructions to: intercept an interaction of the user-space application with the web site; determine that the intercepted interaction is to send sensitive information to the web site; suspend the interaction; and assign a reputation to the URL.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210014269A1 USER ACTIVITY-TRIGGERED URL SCAN Public/Granted day:2021-01-14
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