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| 20080250471 | PARENTAL CONTROL USING SOCIAL METRICS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A parent defines friend rules for on-line association with their child. Upon a request of an on-line stranger to be a new friend of the child, stranger information about the on-line stranger is retrieved and compared to the friend rules to determine whether the stranger is allowed, blocked or restricted from being a friend with the child. Accordingly, the parent only has to use a minimal amount of time in establishing the friend rules to protect the parent's child from on-line strangers. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20090037997 | METHOD FOR DETECTING DNS REDIRECTS OR FRAUDULENT LOCAL CERTIFICATES FOR SSL SITES IN PHARMING/PHISHING SCHEMES BY REMOTE VALIDATION AND USING A CREDENTIAL MANAGER AND RECORDED CERTIFICATE ATTRIBUTES - Certificate information associated with a received certificate, such as a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate is stored in a trusted local cache and/or in one or more remote trusted sources, such as a single remote trusted source and/or a trusted peer network. When a site certificate is received on a host computer system, certificate information associated with the received site certificate is obtained and compared with the stored certificate information to determine whether or not the site certificate indicates malicious activity, such as a malicious DNS redirection or a fraudulent local certificate. When a site certificate is not found indicative of malicious activity, the site certificate is released. Alternatively, when a site certificates is found indicative of malicious activity protective action is taken. In some embodiments, a user's log-in credentials are automatically obtained from a trusted local cache and automatically submitted to a web site. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090158399 | Method and apparatus for processing a multi-step authentication sequence - A method of automating an authentication sequence for accessing a computer resource comprising processing form information associated with the authentication sequence, wherein the authentication sequence comprises a plurality of queries associated with a plurality of web pages; and communicating a response to a portion of the authentication sequence using form information that corresponds to a query upon recognition of indicia of the portion of the plurality of web pages where the portion comprises the query. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20100058431 | Agentless Enforcement of Application Management through Virtualized Block I/O Redirection - Application authorization management is provided without installation of an agent at an operating system level. A component runs outside of the operating system, in an AMT environment. AMT is utilized to examine the operating system for applications. Identified applications are checked against a whitelist or a blacklist. Responsive to determining that an identified application is not authorized, AMT is used to redirect input/output requests targeting the application to an alternative image, which can, for example, warn the user that the application is not authorized. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100064340 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO DATA THROUGH APPLICATION VIRTUALIZATION LAYERS - A computer-implemented method for controlling access to data is. A request to access data is received. A determination is made that an access-control policy of the data is satisfied. A virtualization layer is activated to allow access to the data after determining that the access-control policy is satisfied. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100077445 | Graduated Enforcement of Restrictions According to an Application's Reputation - Security software on a client observes a request for a resource from an application on the client and then determines the application's reputation. The application's reputation may be measured by a reputation score obtained from a remote reputation server. The security software determines an access policy from a graduated set of possible access policies for the application based on the application's reputation. The security software applies the access policy to the application's request for the resource. In this way, the reputation-based system uses a graduated trust scale and a policy enforcement mechanism that restricts or grants application functionality for resource interactivity along a graduated scale. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100191784 | Extending Secure Management of File Attribute Information to Virtual Hard Disks - File attribute information is shared between processes running on a virtual machine and processes accessing a virtual hard disk from a host level. When a host level process accesses files on a virtual hard disk, that process updates the relevant file attribute information, and stores the updated file attribute information on the virtual hard disk. When a virtual machine level process subsequently accesses files on the virtual hard disk, that process reads the updated file attribute information, and omits unnecessary operations. When a virtual machine level process accesses files on the virtual hard disk and updates the corresponding file attribute information, that process communicates the updated file attribute information to the host. When a host level process subsequently accesses files on the virtual hard disk, the host level process reads the updated file attribute information. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100268644 | DATA SUBMISSION FOR ANTI-FRAUD CONTEXT EVALUATION - Contextual data is gathered about a user's known location and/or about a user's expected location and generates contextual indicators based on at least a portion of the gathered contextual data. The contextual indicators are provided to one or more relying parties, such as an anti-fraud system to allow the anti-fraud system to more effectively determine the validity of transactions associated with the user, such as credit card transactions associated with the user's credit card. | 10-21-2010 |
