71 results about "Misuse detection" patented technology

Methods, systems, and computer program products for insider threat detection are provided. Embodiments detect insiders who act on documents and/or files to which they have access but whose activity is inappropriate or uncharacteristic of them based on their identity, past activity, and/or organizational context. Embodiments work by monitoring the network to detect network activity associated with a set of network protocols; processing the detected activity to generate information-use events; generating contextual information associated with users of the network; and processing the information-use events based on the generated contextual information to generate alerts and threat scores for users of the network. Embodiments provide several information-misuse detectors that are used to examine generated information-use events in view of collected contextual information to detect volumetric anomalies, suspicious and/or evasive behavior. Embodiments provide a user threat ranking system and a user interface to examine user threat scores and analyze user activity.

Fraud and abuse detection in an entity's payment coding practices includes the ability to search for fraud at all levels of the hierarchical coded payment system within the context of an unsupervised model. The model uses variables derived and profiles created at any level or at all levels of the hierarchical coded payment system to create a comprehensive description of the payment coding activities submitted by the entity. That description is compared with other peer entities to determine unusual and potentially inappropriate activity. The profiles created may themselves be utilized for purposes other than the detection of fraud and abuse.

A system and method are provided for detecting fraud and/or misuse in a computer environment through tracking users activities at the application layer for known users. Application layer data and other data are normalized and records are created. The normalized data is correlated to user identities to produce correlated information that is analyzed against modeling information. The modeling information is generated using rules, algorithms, and/or database queries to define fraud scenarios and misuse scenarios. Reports and/or alerts may be generated if fraud and/or misuse are detected.

A system and method are provided for detecting fraud and/or misuse of data in a computer environment through generating a rule for monitoring at least one of transactions and activities that are associated with the data. The rule can be generated based on one or more criteria related to the at least one of the transactions and the activities that is indicative of fraud or misuse of the data. The rule can be applied to the at least one of the transactions and the activities to determine if an event has occurred, where the event occurs if the at least one criteria has been met. A hit is stored if the event has occurred and a notification can be provided if the event has occurred. A compilation of hits related to the rule can be provided.

The present invention advantageously provides a system and method for management of cryptographic keys and certificates for a plurality of vehicles. Each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles generates public/private key pairs, requests multiple time-distributed certificates, creates an encrypted identity, and surrenders expired certificates. An assigning authority receives the public/private key pairs, the request for multiple time-distributed certificates, the encrypted identity, and the expired certificates from said vehicle. The assigning authority authorizes the vehicle with an authorizing authority, validates the expired certificates, proves ownership, and distributes the requested time-distributed certificates to said vehicle. Validation can comprise checking expired certificates against misused, compromised and/or previously surrendered certificates. Time-distributed certificates can have lifetimes adjustable based on certificate misuse detection system algorithms, amount of malicious activity detected, and/or certificate authority capacity.

The invention discloses a network worm detection and characteristic automatic extraction method and a network worm detection and characteristic automatic extraction system and belongs to the technical field of network safety. The method comprises the following steps of: 1) performing abnormal detection on captured network data packets, and dividing the data packets into suspicious network flow and normal network flow according to detection results; 2) storing the suspicious network flow in a suspicious flow pool, and storing the normal network flow in a normal flow pool; 3) clustering the network flow in the suspicious flow pool and the normal flow pool, and extracting a characteristic signature; and 4) updating the extracted characteristic signature in a network attack database, and detecting the network worm. The system comprises an abnormal detection subsystem, a characteristic extraction subsystem, a network attack characteristic database, and a misuse detection system. The methodand the system can more accurately and timely discover the network worm, can automatically extract the worm characteristics and update the attack characteristic database of the existing misuse detection system. Therefore, the aim of suppressing worm propagation is really fulfilled.

Methods and systems are provided for a proactive approach for computer forensic investigations. The invention allows organizations anticipating the need for forensic analysis to prepare in advance. Digital signatures are generated proactively for a specified target. The digital signature represents a digest of the content of the target, and can be readily stored. Searching and comparing digital signatures allows quick and accurate identification of targets having identical or similar content. Computational and storage costs are expended in advance, which allow more efficient computer forensic investigations. The present invention can be applied to numerous applications, such as computer forensic evidence gathering, misuse detection, network intrusion detection, and unauthorized network traffic detection and prevention.

In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method detects a network or application abuse to a service provider environment. In the method, data is collected describing incoming requests from plurality of different external source addresses to the service provider environment. The collected data is used to compare the incoming requests against a heuristic. When the incoming requests are determined to match the heuristic, the requests, having the plurality of different external source addresses, are from a common abuse entity. Finally, the collected data is evaluated to determine that the common abuse entity is a potential network abuser of the service provider environment.

The invention relates to a method used for detecting the anomalies of protocol format and a system thereof; the system comprises a detection key field library, a practical detection rule library, a grammar analyzer, a protocol analyzer and a protocol format anomalies detector; the method comprises the steps as follows: establishing of the detection key field library, establishing of the practical detection rule library, data extraction and deep detection. The method and the system solve the performance problem that only misused detection is used for carrying out mode matching on the load part of all data packets in the prior art. The method and the system adopt the grammar analyzer which has powerful function so as to lead the extension of the system to be extremely convenient, can automatically generate the practical detection rule and corresponding processing function correlation, have the advantages of fast detection speed for protocol format anomalies, high exactness and the like, and have wide application prospect.

Provided is a method of identifying an ActiveX control distribution site, detecting a security vulnerability in an ActiveX control and immunizing the same. A security vulnerability existing in an ActiveX control may be automatically detected, effects brought on by the corresponding security vulnerability may be measured, and abuse of the detected security vulnerability in a user PC to be protected may be immediately prevented. Therefore, since the user PC may be protected regardless of a security patch, it is anticipated that security problems in the Internet environment caused by imprudent use of the ActiveX control may be significantly enhanced.

The invention relates to an attack detection method of computer security vulnerability. A detection system is composed of a dummy executing component, a data marking component, a data tracking component, a misuse detection component and a vulnerability analyzing component. The method comprises starting a program to be monitored by the dummy executing component, generating tainted data structure by the data marking component when an external input data is present, marking the propagated tainted data by the data tracking component, determining by the misuse detection component whether the use of the tainted data breaks the security rule and configuration, and collecting and analyzing information associated with the security vulnerability by the vulnerability analyzing component. The invention is suitable for hostile attack detection and analysis of security vulnerability during program running, thereby preventing the hostile attack behavior and providing the detailed information of the security vulnerability. The invention can detect most of the overflow security vulnerabilities without the need of source codes and with a zero misreport rate, and can provide sufficient information for automatically generating patches for the security vulnerability.

A reputation system generates reputation scores for websites based at least in part on analyses of disposable data misuse associated with the websites. The reputation system receives reports describing disposable data misuses detected by clients and/or other entities, such as credit card issuers. The reputation system also detects certain types of misuse itself by analyzing received disposable data involved in a misuse detection to determine the websites or other entities that misused the data. The reputation system generates misuse statistics describing the amount of data misuse performed by websites. The reputation system generates reputation scores for websites based on the disposable data misuse statistics and, optionally, other reputation information for the websites, such as malware distribution associated with the websites. The reputation system reports the reputations of the websites to the clients.

A misuse detection electronic control unit in a vehicle network system including a plurality of electronic control units that communicate with one another through buses in accordance with a CAN protocol includes a transceiver unit that performs a reception step of receiving a target data frame and a reference data frame transmitted through the buses, wherein the target data frame is a data frame having a first identifier and wherein the reference data frame is a data frame having a second identifier different from the first identifier and a misuse detection process unit that performs a detection step of performing, as misuse detection for the target data frame, evaluation in accordance with a reception timing of the reference data frame and a reception timing of the target data frame on the basis of a certain rule specifying a reception interval between the reference data frame and the target data frame.

The invention simply discloses an intrusion detection model by combining the existing network intrusion detection technology aiming at cluster heads (Cluster Head, CH for short) of a cluster-based wireless sensor network (Cluster-based Wireless Sensor Network, CWSN for short). The characteristics of low CH operating rate and limited energy are fully considered; the designed model is simple in structure, and composed of the following three modules: a misuse detection module, an abnormality detection module and a decision module, wherein the misuse detection module utilizes the neural network as a core. The existing neural network is various in variety and each neural network has advantages and defects, a back propagation (BP) neural network, a generalized regression neural network and a BP neural network optimized on the basis of a genetic algorithm are respectively selected to carry out an experiment to obtain the neural network which is more suitable for an intrusion detection system (IDS) aiming at a wireless sensor network (WSN). The experiment adopts a KDDCUP1999 data set, and a matrix laboratory (MATLAB) is utilized to carry out a simulation experiment.

The invention provides a self-adapting network intrusion detection system, and the system comprises a message pre-processing and forwarding module, a misuse detection module, an abnormality responding module and an output device. The message pre-processing and forwarding module is used for extracting non-encrypted messages in network connecting objects and forwarding the messages to the misuse detection module which is used for forwarding the detected abnormal network connecting objects to the abnormality responding module. The system is characterized by also comprising a real-time database, a feature data arranging and storing module, a historical database, a semi-supervised self-adaptive learning module and an abnormality detection module which is used for analyzing the network connecting feature vectors in the real-time database and forwarding the detected abnormal network connection to the abnormality responding module. The beneficial effect of the system is as follows: the system uses the semi-supervised self-adaptive learning module to establish the rule of abnormality detection according to the data in the historical database, a lot of artificially-marked training data is not needed, thus reducing the deploying cost of the abnormality detection system.

Aspects of an abuse detection system for a web service include an abuse detection engine executing on a server. The abuse detection engine includes a pre-processing module for aggregating a data set for processing and analysis; a suspiciousness test module for identifying suspicious content owners and suspicious users; a graphing module for finding connections between suspicious content owners and suspicious users; an analysis module for determining which groups are constituted of fraudulent or abusive accounts; and a notification generation and output module for generating a list of abusive entities and a notification for output to at least one of: the abusive entity, a digital content distribution company associated with the abusive entity, and a legal department or other entity for further investigation or action. Additionally, royalties for content consumptions associated with abusive accounts may be held. Aspects of an abusive traffic detection method enable multi-account and multi-content owner fraud detection.

The invention discloses a wireless Mesh network intrusion detection system and a detection method thereof in the technical field of network safety. The system comprises a data acquisition module, a detection recording module, a node dummy management module, a characteristic detection module and a response module. The detection method comprises the following steps of: forming a finite-state machine according to a routing protocol of a wireless Mesh network; deploying the intrusion detection system and determining a node which performs intrusion detection; starting state machine-based intrusiondetection; and establishing an anomaly-misuse detection mapping table to realize the intrusion detection. A routing protocol state machine can be adequately applied to the intrusion detection by establishing a node dummy so as to provide a detection basis for the detection of a detection node; the problem of inaccurate intrusion detection in the wireless Mesh network is solved by adopting an intrusion detection system deployment strategy; and the resource consumption of the network by the overall intrusion detection can be reduced by starting the timing selection of the detection system.

The invention provides a network intrusion detection method and device. The method comprises the following steps of: according to a current intrusion feature database, performing misuse detection of network data acquired in real time; when the fact that the network data has an intrusion behavior is judged, processing feature value sequences of the network data according to a genetic algorithm, so that various current feature value sequences are obtained; and, calculating adaptation values of the various current feature value sequences, and storing the current feature value sequences, the adaptation values of which are greater than a threshold value, in the current intrusion feature database, wherein the threshold value is obtained by processing at least one training feature value sequence in the current intrusion feature database in advance. By means of the method disclosed by the invention, detection on network flow data is realized; furthermore, crossover and variation of the detected intrusion behavior can be carried out according to the genetic algorithm; furthermore, more intrusion behaviors can be obtained through comparison with the adaptation threshold value; therefore, the intrusion feature database can be continuously updated; and thus, the network intrusion detection accuracy rate can be continuously increased.