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- Patent Title: System and methods for scalably identifying and characterizing structural differences between document object models
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Application No.: US14993014Application Date: 2016-01-11
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Publication No.: US09680856B2Publication Date: 2017-06-13
- Inventor: Michael Borohovski , Ainsley K Braun , Benjamin Sedat , Angel Irizarry
- Applicant: Tinfoil Security, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Tinfoil Security, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Tinfoil Security, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fenwick & West LLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06F21/57 ; G06F17/30 ; H04L29/08

Abstract:
A security auditing computer system efficiently evaluates and reports security exposures in a target Web site hosted on a remote Web server system. The auditing system includes a crawler subsystem that constructs a first list of Web page identifiers representing the target Web site. An auditing subsystem selectively retrieves and audits Web pages based on a second list, based on the first. Retrieval is sub-selected dependent on a determined uniqueness of Web page identifiers relative to the second list. Auditing is further sub-selected dependent on a determined uniqueness of structural identifiers computed for each retrieved Web page, including structural identifiers of Web page components contained within a Web page. The computed structural identifiers are stored in correspondence with Web page identifiers and Web page component identifiers in the second list. A reporting system produces reports of security exposures identified through the auditing of Web pages and Web page components.
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