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An innovative security solution which separates a client into a Protected Context, which is the real files and resources of the client, and an Isolated Context, which is a restricted execution environment which makes use of virtualized resources to execute applications and modify content in the Isolated Context, without allowing explicit access to the resources in the Protected Context. The solution further consolidates user interfaces to allow users to seamlessly work with content in both contexts, and provide a visual indication of which display windows are rendered from content executed in the Isolated Context.

Disclosed herein is an electronic device network for lifecycle management of firmware and software in electronic devices. The electronic device network may also be adapted to manage configuration parameters in the electronic devices. Lifecycle management provided by the electronic device network may include firmware and software downloading, firmware and software updating, and remote locking and remote enabling of electronic device capability. An update store module in the electronic device network may be adapted to dispense update packages to requesting electronic devices. The electronic devices may employ one or a plurality of update agents to update software and firmware therein. A boot loader in the electronic device is capable of determining whether an update agent is to be invoked or whether a previous backup copy of the update agent in non-volatile memory is to be invoked upon determining, based upon status information, that an update is to be conducted, rather than a normal startup operation without updates.

A method for the remote printing of a document by use of a network, the method including the steps of: (a) receiving at a server the document as sent from a sender; (b) the server forwarding the document to a recipient; (c) the document being authenticated prior to being forwarded to the recipient; and (d) the server receiving instructions from the sender regards printing controls and the server implementing those controls on the recipient. A hardware device to support the printing controls is also disclosed.

A method for protecting data against power analysis attacks includes at least a first phase of executing a cryptographic operation for ciphering data in corresponding enciphered data through a secret key. The method includes at least a second phase of executing an additional cryptographic operation for ciphering additional data in corresponding enciphered additional data. An execution of the first and second phases is undistinguishable by the data power analysis attacks. Secret parameters are randomly generated and processed by the at least one second phase. The secret parameters include an additional secret key ERK for ciphering the additional data in the corresponding enciphered additional data.

A plasma composition and its use in a method for the dry etching of a stack of at least one material chemically too reactive towards the use of a Cl-based plasma are provided. Small amounts of nitrogen (5% up to 10%) can be added to a BCl₃ comprising plasma and used in an anisotropical dry etching method whereby a passivation film is deposited onto the vertical sidewalls of stack etched for protecting the vertical sidewalls from lateral attack such that straight profiles can be obtained.

The present invention overcomes limitations of the prior art by providing new compounds and methods for the treatment of conditions, such as neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., multiple sclerosis), psychiatric disorders (e.g., psychosis, bipolar disorder, depression, neuropathic pain), conditions involving CNS-mediated chronic pain, spinal cord injuries, and other diseases or injuries.

<heading lvl="0">Abstract of Disclosure</heading> Before use, a population of tamper-resistant cryptographic enforcement devices is partitioned into groups and issued one or more group keys. Each tamper-resistant device contains multiple computational units to control access to digital content. One of the computational units within each tamper-resistant device communicates with another of the computational units acting as an interface control processor, and serves to protect the contents of a nonvolatile memory from unauthorized access or modification by other portions of the tamper-resistant device, while performing cryptographic computations using the memory contents. Content providers enforce viewing privileges by transmitting encrypted rights keys to a large number of recipient devices. These recipient devices process received messages using the protected processing environment and memory space of the secure unit. The processing result depends on whether the recipient device was specified by the content provider as authorized to view some encrypted digital content. Authorized recipient devices can use the processing result in decrypting the content, while unauthorized devices cannot decrypt the content. A related aspect of the invention provides for securing computational units and controlling attacks. For example, updates to the nonvolatile memory, including program updates, are supported and protected via a cryptographic unlocking and validation process in the secure unit, which can include digital signature verification.

An improved device for use in authorizing transactions, supplying information and performing applications is provided by the present invention, effectively implementing a secured individual and portable Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) terminal. The device uses a local processor and secure data storage in conjunction with a variety of sensors to perform authentication processes that establish an individuals identity and provide authority to perform a desired transaction. The sensors allow the device to directly scan biometric identifying information from an individual. A card swipe interface and a proximity antenna are provided to facilitate communication between the device and remote interface devices such as magnetic swipe card readers, smart card readers, infrared communications ports and proximity and long range radio scanners. In addition, the local processor, memory, display and user inputs allow the device to run applications such as those performed by a traditional computer, gaming device, personal data assistant and smart phone.

A system and method are provided for detecting extension attacks made to a communication enterprise, and taking appropriate remedial action to prevent ongoing attacks and future attacks. One or more attributes of a suspect call are analyzed, and a risk is associated with each analyzed attribute. An overall risk or assessment is then made of the analyzed attributes, attack attributes are logged, and one or more remedial actions may be triggered as a result of the analyzed call attributes. The remedial actions may include recording the call, notifying an administrator of a suspect call, or isolating the communication enterprise from the attack by terminating the call or shutting down selected communication endpoints to prevent calls being made to those extensions. Rules may be applied to the analyzed attributes in order to trigger the appropriate remedial action. The call attributes analyzed may include call destination, call direction, call type, time of day of the call, call duration, whether a call source is spoofed, call volume from a particular call source, and hash values created for a suspect media stream.

The invention proposes a method for controlling a connection between a first network node and a second network node, wherein the connection is controlled by a packet filtering function filtering packets such that a packet is discarded in case a source address and/or a destination address do not comply with a filtering rule, wherein the packet filtering function is configured at a connection set up, and at least one of the first or second network node is adapted to change its address, the method comprising the steps of informing, the packet filtering function about the new address of the network node having changed its address, and updating the packet filter of the packet filtering function by using the new address of the network node having changed its address. The invention also proposes a corresponding network system comprising at least a network node and a packet filtering network element. Furthermore, the invention proposes a corresponding packet filtering network device.

A plurality of computer nodes communicate using seemingly random Internet Protocol source and destination addresses. Data packets matching criteria defined by a moving window of valid addresses are accepted for further processing, while those that do not meet the criteria are quickly rejected. Improvements to the basic design include (1) a load balancer that distributes packets across different transmission paths according to transmission path quality; (2) a DNS proxy server that transparently creates a virtual private network in response to a domain name inquiry; (3) a large-to-small link bandwidth management feature that prevents denial-of-service attacks at system chokepoints; (4) a traffic limiter that regulates incoming packets by limiting the rate at which a transmitter can be synchronized with a receiver; and (5) a signaling synchronizer, that allows a large number of nodes to communicate with a central node by partitioning the communication function between two separate entities.

An intrusion detection system (IDS) is enhanced to operate in a cluster of such systems, and IDSs organized into a cluster cooperate to exchange IP reputation influencing events information between or among the cooperating systems in real-time to enhance overall system response time and to prevent otherwise hidden attacks from damaging network resources. An IDS includes an IP reputation analytics engine to analyze new and existing events, correlate information, and to raise potential alerts. The IP reputation analytics engines may implement an algorithm, such as a pattern matching algorithm, a continuous data mining algorithm, or the like, to facilitate this operation. Clustering IDS endpoints to share IP reputation influencing events, using the cluster-wide view to determine IP reputation, and feeding the cluster-wide view back to the IDS endpoints, provides for enhanced and early detection of threats that is much more reliable and scalable as compared to prior art techniques.

The invention discloses an electronic invoice management system and a method based on distributed accounting. The system comprises multiple verification nodes. Each verification node comprises an electronic invoice contract module and an agreement module, wherein the electronic invoice contract module comprises an electronic invoice service intelligent contract and is configured to be used for receiving a transaction command of the electronic invoice service intelligent contract and executing the transaction command according to a result of the agreement module so as to establish a block and form a block link, and the electronic invoice service intelligent contract is operation performed on an electronic invoice. The agreement module is configured to be used for communicating with other verification nodes when being triggered and making an agreement on a transaction command sequence between all verification nodes for the received transaction command according to an agreement algorithm. According to the invention, tamper-proofing is realized and the system and the method are cost-effective.

A challenge-response authentication procedure includes masking of the expected response (XRES) generated by an authentication center by means of a masking function (f), and transmission of the masked expected response (XRES'), instead of the expected response itself, to an intermediate party at which the actual user authentication takes place. The intermediate party also receives a user response (RES) from the user and generates a masked user response (RES') using the same masking function (f) as the authentication center did. In order to authenticate the user, the intermediate party then verifies that the masked user response (RES') corresponds to the masked expected response (XRES') received from the authentication center. The above procedure enables the intermediate party to prove that user authentication has taken place, keeping in mind that only the legitimate user knows the response beforehand.

A method and apparatus for preventing a Denial of Service attack directed at a target that is hosted on a server. The attack is detected and the IP address of the source client of the attack is identified. The IP address of the source of the attack is then communicated upstream to router devices close to the attacking source and the attacker is prevented from further attacks until it is determined that the attacker poses no threat. The detection of the attack and the communication of the identity of the attacker to upstream routers is performed automatically or by human intervention.

In the present invention, when one open or running software application having secured features enters an access signed-in or logged-in state, other open or running software applications having secured features enter a ready signed-in state automatically, without prompting user intervention. The same operation that signed-in or logged-in the initial software application will transition other software applications that are presently open, active to run, or that start in run mode to a ready signed-in state. The access signed-in state fully authenticates the user's identity and grants access to secured features. The ready signed-in state places the software application in a state of readiness to authenticate and access secured features without prompting user intervention. One feature of the present invention is the sharing of a sign-in or login credential (e.g. username and password) and the processing of the shared credential in order to provide a universal, shared sign-in session between open software applications having secured features. This feature helps provide a user experience that in effect, has only one sign-in or login session for software applications with secured features.

The present invention provides a bi-direction authentication method and system which belongs to the field of network communication. The present invention aims at solving the problems that certificate management in present private key authority technology is complex and the certificate management can not protect the identity of the users. The present invention provides a bi-direction authority method. The present invention includes the procedures of the system initialization and generating system parameters, an applicant initializing a dialogue request to establish connection with an authorization server, the applicant and the authorization server mutually check identity and generate a pair of main key which is used for the four-procedure-hand-shaking. The present invention also provides a bi-direction authorization system. The system includes a parameter initialization module, an establishing dialogue connecting module, a server identity verification module and an applicant identify verification. Applications of the technical proposal of the present invention can reduce the establishing and maintenance cost of the system, to enhance the running efficiency of the system, and to realize the target of protecting applicants.

A first aspect of the invention relates to a method for verifying an attachment of a mobile node to a network element in a network. A second aspect of the invention relates to a method to be implemented in a mobility anchor node, which detects whether a race condition between registration messages occurs and resolves the most recent location of a mobile node. A third aspect of the invention relates to a method for detecting whether a binding cache entry for a mobile at a correspondent node has been spoofed and to a method for registering a care-of address of a mobile node at a correspondent node. A fourth aspect of the invention relates to a method for providing from a mobile node to a local mobility anchor information on an attachment of a mobile node to a network element.

The invention relates to an authentication system and an authentication method based on biological features. The method comprises the steps of conducting centralized storage and biological feature comparison operation for a large quantity of user biological feature templates according to user ID identifiers stored on a memory on a limited use machine and corresponding biding ID identifiers thereof on a biological authentication device of a digital processing terminal; separating the biological feature templates from the authentication function of the limited use machine; allocating to digital processing terminals (including PCs, notebooks or mobile phones, PDAs of users)of users as biological authentication device-storing the biological feature templates with decentralization and operating and processing biological features to be authenticated with decentralization so as to conduct comparison with the biological feature templates pre-stored on the respective digital processing terminals; feeding back comparison and verification results to the limited use machines; authorizing to conduct equal authentication of the biological authentication device ID identifier on the digital processing terminal for the corresponding binding user ID identifiers by the centralized authentication of the limited use machine according to the comparison verification result data.

A multi-model cooperative defense method facing deep learning antagonism attack comprises the following steps of: 1) performing unified modeling based on a gradient attack to provide a [Rho]-loss model; 2) according to design of a unified model, for an countering attack of a target model fpre(x), according to a generation result of a countering sample, classifying a basic expression form of an attack into two classes; 3) analyzing the parameters of the model, performing parameter optimization of the [Rho]-loss model and search step length optimization of a disturbance solution model for the countering sample; and 4) for the mystique of a black box attack, designing an experiment based on an adaboost concept, generating a plurality of different types of substitution models, used to achievethe same task, for integration, designing a multi-model cooperative defense method with high defense capability through an attack training generator of an integration model with high defense capability, and providing multi-model cooperative detection attack with weight optimal distribution. The multi-model cooperative defense method is high in safety and can effectively defense the attack of a deep learning model for the antagonism attack.

A method for authenticating communication traffic includes receiving a first request, such as a DNS request, sent over a network from a source address, to provide network information regarding a given domain name. A response is sent to the source address in reply to the first request. When a second request is from the source address in reply to the response, the authenticity of the first request is assessed based on the second request.