New Website Alerting System for Malicious Site Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users navigating the internet face risks from unknown or newly created websites that may host malware, engage in phishing, or other illicit activities, as existing technologies lack effective methods to distinguish safe from unsafe websites in real-time.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that alerts users to newly created websites by analyzing factors such as purchase date, ownership transfer, network traffic, and reputation, providing alerts before, during, or after navigation, utilizing a web browser, browser plugin, proxy server, or search engine to identify and flag potentially malicious sites.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users navigate to new websites without verification, then browsing speed and accessibility are improved, but security risk increases due to potential malware and phishing
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by checking website reputation, analyzing purchase dates, and evaluating ownership transfer history before a user navigates to a new website. This pre-emptive security assessment allows users to access safe websites without delay while blocking potentially harmful sites before interaction occurs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary system that sits between the user's browser and the websites they attempt to visit. This intermediary service evaluates website safety metrics and provides real-time alerts or warnings, mediating the connection between users and potentially harmful sites without completely blocking legitimate browsing.
2Measurement precision
If comprehensive website analysis is performed to detect new malicious sites, then security detection accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the website analysis process into multiple independent components: checking purchase date recency, analyzing ownership transfer history, evaluating reputation scores, and assessing network traffic patterns. Each component can be independently implemented and scaled, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive detection capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a multi-functional website evaluation system that simultaneously performs multiple safety checks using shared infrastructure. The same analytical framework evaluates diverse factors (purchase date, ownership transfers, reputation, traffic) through a unified platform, reducing redundancy and simplifying system architecture.
3Reliability
If real-time website reputation checking is implemented, then security protection is improved, but response time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs reputation checks in advance and caches results for frequently visited or previously evaluated websites. When a user attempts to navigate to a website, the system first checks the cache for existing reputation data, providing immediate response for known sites while only performing full real-time analysis for truly new or unverified websites.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a tiered checking approach where the system performs partial reputation checks for low-risk scenarios and full comprehensive analysis only when necessary. For example, websites with established reputations receive minimal verification, while new or suspicious sites undergo complete multi-factor analysis, optimizing the balance between security and speed.
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AI summary
A system identifies and alerts a user to websites that are new to the web, for example, based on a purchase date, a transfer of ownership date, network traffic to the website, a reputation of the website, and/or appearance of the website in search results. An alert may be provided before, during and/or after a user navigates to a website. An alert may be provided for a displayed website. One or more alerts may be provided for one or more links to websites in a displayed webpage, such as search engine results. One or more alerts may be provided for one or more links to websites shown in a history or list of recently visited websites. A new to the web label may alert a user to consider whether a website is malicious, aiding a user's determination whether to navigate away from or to avoid navigating to new websites.