2572 results about "Network attack" patented technology

The disclosed invention is a new method and apparatus for protecting applications from local and network attacks. This method also detects and removes malware and is based on creating a sandbox at application and kernel layer. By monitoring and controlling the behavior and access privileges of the application and only selectively granting access, any attacks that try to take advantage of the application vulnerabilities are thwarted.

According to one embodiment of the invention, a system for preventing a network attack is provided. The system includes a computer having a processor and a computer-readable medium. The system also includes a shield program stored in the computer-readable medium. The shield program is operable, when executed by the processor, to transmit an agent to each of one or more nodes in a network in response to an attack directed to the network. The agent is operable to initiate a reduction of the effect of the attack on the node.

A method and a system for preventing a network attack, the attack being cause by the presence of worms in the network, is provided. The method includes determining the number of packets being transmitted from each source in the network to a plurality of destinations, the packets being transmitted from a source with a set of characteristics. If the number of packets with the set of characteristics, being transmitted from a source, exceeds a predefined first threshold, then the signature of the packets is stored. Subsequently, if at least one of the pluralities of destinations of the packets identified with the source becomes a source of new packets, the new packets being transmitted to more than one destination; then the new packets are compared with the signature. If at least one new packet matches with the signature, then the worm is to be detected.

A system for detecting and responding to an attack comprises a filter module, a node, a management module, and a test node. The filter module allows questionable messages to proceed. The node receives the questionable messages and maintains logical operations associated with the questionable messages within a restricted region. The management module resets the service node upon a network attack. The test node replays the node questionable messages to identify a new attack. A method of protecting against a network attack logs questionable messages and directs the questionable messages to a node. The method maintains logical operations associated with the questionable messages within a restricted region and identifies a network attack upon the node, which triggers an intrusion response. The intrusion response resets the node, replays the questionable messages within a test node to identify a new attack message, and adds the new attack message to the known attack messages.

An apparatus and method for detecting anomalous traffic are provided. More particularly, an apparatus and method for detecting anomalous traffic based on entropy of network traffic are provided. The apparatus of detecting anomalous traffic includes: an entropy extraction module for extracting entropy from network traffic; a visualization module for generating an entropy graph based on the entropy; a graph model experience module for updating a graph model for each network attack based on the entropy graph; and an anomalous traffic detection module for detecting anomalous traffic based on the entropy graph and the graph model for each network attack and outputting the detection results to a user. In the apparatus and method, anomalous traffic is detected based on network entropy rather than simple statistics based on the amount of traffic, so that a false alarm rate of the apparatus for detecting anomalous traffic can be reduced.

A network security monitor system groups a plurality of security events into network sessions, correlates the network sessions according to a set of predefined network security event correlation rules and generates a security incident for the network sessions that satisfy one of the network security event correlation rules. The system then presents the information of the network sessions and security incidents to a user of the system in an intuitive form. The user is able to not only learn the details of a possible network attack, but also creates new security event correlation rules intuitively, including drop rules for dropping a particular type of events.

Methods, systems, and apparatus that enable identification of network attacks such as denial of service attacks are disclosed. A network attack may be identified by monitoring packets received for delivery to devices on a network, and developing a historic packet profile by examining the monitored packets received during a number of time periods preceding an instant time period. An instant packet profile is developed by examining the monitored packets during the instant time period. The instant packet profile is compared to the historic packet profile to determine whether a deviation exceeding a predetermined statistical threshold deviation between the instant packet profile and the historic packet profile is present. The existence of a network attack is identified in response to determining that the deviation exceeds the predetermined statistical threshold deviation.

The invention relates to a network attack scene generating method based on multi-source alarm logs. The network attack scene generating method includes the steps that firstly, the alarm logs generated by multiple network security protection devices are collected, effective alarm log data are extracted through preprocessing, and noise, redundancy or ineffective logs are removed; for the effective alarm logs acquired by one device, log format differences of different devices are shielded through single-source log aggregation and mapping, and attack event information is analyzed and extracted; attack events extracted from different sources are fused and analyzed, and network attack events with high credibility are generated; then through correlation analysis of the attack events, a network attack scene graph is generated, and the whole attack process of one attack operation is analyzed. Due to the fact that the multi-source logs are fused, the analyzed attack event information can more completely and more reliably depict attacks to which a network is subject, attack scenes are acquired through correlation analysis of the attack events, the intentions of attackers can be more clearly shown, and the security threat state of the network can be more clearly reflected.

The present invention provides a system and method for providing computer network attack simulation. The method includes the steps of: receiving a network configuration and setup description; simulating the network configuration based on the received network configuration; receiving at least one confirmed vulnerability of at least one computer, machine, or network device in the simulated network; receiving a method for compromising the confirmed vulnerability of the at least one computer, machine, or network device; and virtually installing a network agent on the at least one computer, machine, or network device, wherein the network agent allows a penetration tester to execute arbitrary operating system calls on the at least one computer, machine, or network device.

A computer-implemented method for discovering network attack paths is provided. The method includes a computer generating scoring system results based on analysis of vulnerabilities of nodes in a network configuration. The method also includes the computer applying Bayesian probability to the scoring system results and selected qualitative risk attributes wherein output accounts for dependencies between vulnerabilities of the nodes. The method also includes the computer applying a weighted-average algorithm to the output yielding at least one ranking of nodes in order of likelihood of targeting by an external attacker.

The invention relates to multilayer honey-net data transmission method and system, and the gateway of honey-net receives the data flow of external network; the gateway of honey-net detects the network intrusion for the received data flow; the normal data flow can pass, which is sent to the target host computer; and the informal data flow is divide into high, middle and low according to dangerous level; and the data flow with high level is sent to physical honey-tank system, the data flow with middle level is sent to virtual machine honey-tank system, and the data floe with low level is sent to virtual honey-tank system. The invention can utilize the advantages of low interactive honey-tank system and high interactive honey-tank system, save system source, and improve the covering area of honey-tank system and the ability of obtaining the movable information of network attack and capturing the malice code; it can defeat the anti-honey tank technique. And it can be used in security field of computer network.

The invention discloses a method and a system for detecting a network security threat based on trusted business flow. The method comprises the following steps of establishing a blacklist and a white list of network flow and constructing a baseline model, wherein the white list is the trusted business flow and is a feature contour library of normal network behavior and host behavior; comparing real-time monitoring flow data and the baseline model; when the real-time data is matched with the blacklist, outputting an abnormal flow alarm; when the real-time data is matched with the white list and a deviation exceeds a preset threshold, outputting a threat flow alarm; and when the real-time data is mismatched with the blacklist and the white list, treating as a gray list and outputting an unknown flow alarm. According to the method and the system, the network security threat can be comprehensively and effectively detected at a low false alarm rate and high anti-virus efficiency, and the method and the system can adapt to a more granular network attack and defense confrontation environment.

An apparatus for preventing network attacks includes: a packet buffer for storing received packets from a network; a filtering unit for filtering harmful packets based on a result of comparison between information of the received packets and preset filtering information to select a first filtering target packet; an SYN cookie handler for selecting a second filtering target packet using an SYN cookie if it is determined that there is a TCP SYN flooding attack based on the information of the received packets after said filtering; and a session manager for selecting a third filtering target packet through session management if there is a TCP flag flooding attack based on the information of the received packets after said filtering. The apparatus further includes a packet transmission and receipt processing method and apparatus using above.

The invention discloses a network attack abnormality detection method, and relates to the technical field of information security. The technical point of the network attack abnormality detection method disclosed by the invention is as follows: a step 1, deploying a traffic data collection device at a network traffic aggregation node; a step 2, extracting a network behavior feature value from the collected traffic data; a step 3, carrying out dimensionality reduction and standardization on the network behavior feature value; a step 4, determining normal network behavior feature values, and establishing a normal behavior model based on a set of the normal network behavior feature values; and a step 5, detecting other network behavior feature values based on the normal behavior model, and judging whether abnormal network behaviors occur; and when detecting abnormal network behaviors, updating the normal behavior model according to a new normal network behavior feature value.

The invention provides a network access control method and system based on IP access behaviors. The method includes: after a Web request sent by a client is acquired through a router, the Web request is sent to a behavior analyzing server; data in the Web request are extracted by the behavior analyzing server and a corresponding user IP and a behavior record of the user IP are generated and whether the Web request is a normal request is judged according to the behavior record; if the Web request is a normal request, then the Web request is forwarded to a corresponding service server and if not, then a response refusing the Web request is sent to the client so that access control on unknown IPs can be carried out dynamically and problems such as low efficiency, tedious configuration and poor dynamic instantaneity and the like in traditional IP access control are solved. At the same time, the network access control method and system also aim at restraining network attacks, regulating crawler behaviors, improving website or API service qualities and enhancing website stability and usability.

A method for detecting network attacks is provided. In one implementation, the method receives a plurality of attack indications based on data transmitted on the network and applies rules to the plurality of attack indications. Also, the method generates an alert if an application of at least a subset of the rules on the plurality of attack indications indicates a potential attack. In addition, a network device that performs the method and a computer program corresponding to the method are provided.

A security monitoring system processes event messages related to computer network security in real time, evaluating inter-event constraints so as to identify combinations of events that are partial solutions to a predefined event correlation rule, and furthermore evaluating combinations of the partial solutions do determine if they together satisfy the predefined event correlation rule. A decision tree is formed based on the rule. Event messages are categorized into groups at leaf nodes of the tree in accordance with a plurality of intra-event constraints, and then the messages are correlated in accordance with a plurality of inter-event constraints at non-leaf nodes of the tree. When the inter-event constraint at a root node of the tree has been satisfied, a network attack alert is issued and protective actions may be taken.

A system protects against loss of communication during network attacks. In a first implementation, a system (120) models the behavior of normal users in a network in response to an application of a first packet filtering technique. The system (120) receives a group of packets from a first user subsequent to the application of the first packet filtering technique and creates one or more models reflecting the behavior of the first user based on the received packets. In another implementation, a system (130) receives a stream of packets subsequent to a filtering technique being applied, partitions the packets into groups, where each group corresponds to more than one packet, and classifies each group of packets as a normal group or an attack group using one or more models. Each model reflects a normal response to an application of the filtering technique. The system (130) forwards groups classified as normal groups, thus preventing network attacks from choking off all communication in the network.

The invention discloses a network security accident classification and predicting method and a system, which are used for solving the problems of the prior art on lacking the capability of timely finding the characteristics of attack behaviors and accurately classifying the attack behaviors. The method comprises the following steps: S1. acquiring web access log of users in a whole network and http metadata in full-flow log; S2. segmenting the web access log and the url of the http metadata, and matching with a network attach illegal character feature library; S3. constructing a word vector and a document vector of the segmented url by utilizing word2vector; and S4. inputting the document vector as a feature and classifying the attack behavior by adopting a naive bayes model. The real-time monitoring of key points can be realized, the abnormal behavior carrying mainstream attack feature can be found by means of machine learning, the classification efficiency of network attack behaviors can be improved, and the time cost of manual check can be lowered, continuously changed attack behaviors can be adapted, and the classification detection accuracy can be enhanced, thus providing guarantee for network security.

The invention discloses a test system used for a network safety product and a test method thereof. The test system comprises a policy module, a session generating module, a result judge module and a reporting module. The test method comprises the steps as follows: (a) a data structure linked list of a test rule is filled to generate a concrete test case; (b) a client end and a server end program are constructed for respectively simulating hosts in two networks isolated by the network safety product and transferring a test plug-in corresponding to the test case by the client end and server endprogram to generate a corresponding data packet at real time to be transferred to a client end or a server end for sending, thereby generating a network session or a network attack session; and (c) atest result of the test case is judged according to the session finishing status and the network safety product behavioral parameter in the test case. The invention can realize the automatic real-time online detection of the policy configuration effectivity, the anti-attack penetration effectivity and the updating effectivity of the network safety product.

The present invention provides a method for generating from requests from a first data network attack signatures for use in a second data network having a plurality of addresses assigned to data processing systems, the method comprising receiving data traffic from the first data network addressed to a number of unassigned addresses in a third data network; inspecting several incidents of the received data traffic for a common data pattern, upon finding a said data pattern, determining from the corresponding data traffic the attack signature for use in detecting attacks for the second data network. The invention also provides an apparatus for generating from requests on a first data network attack signatures for use in a second data network having a plurality of addresses assigned to data processing systems. The present invention further extends to a computer program element comprising computer program code means which, when loaded in a processor of a data processing system, configures the processor to perform a method for detecting attacks on a data network as hereinbefore described. The present invention further extends to a method of supporting an entity in the handling of a detected attack.