Patents Examined by Badri Badrinarayanan Champakesan
  • User activity-triggered URL scan
    Patent number: 11411991
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Oliver G. Devane, Abhishek Karnik