Immunizing HTML browsers and extensions from known vulnerabilities

An exemplary computer-implementable method ( 300 ) transforms or "immunizes" information to reduce or eliminate risk of exploitation of a known vulnerabilty of a software service and includes receiving information ( 304 ) in response to a request, transforming the information ( 308 ) to pr...

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Main Authors DUBROVSKY OPHER, EIN-GIL BOAZ, WANG JIAHE H
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 18.01.2007
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:An exemplary computer-implementable method ( 300 ) transforms or "immunizes" information to reduce or eliminate risk of exploitation of a known vulnerabilty of a software service and includes receiving information ( 304 ) in response to a request, transforming the information ( 308 ) to produce transformed information and sending the transformed information ( 312 ). An exemplary firewall server ( 112 ) includes server software ( 144, 148 ) that allows the firewall server ( 112 ) to receive information from a resource ( 104, 108 ) via a network and to send information to a client computer ( 114 ) and an immunization component ( 264, 268 ) for immunizing the information to prevent exploitation of a vulnerabilty of browser software ( 154 ) on the client computer ( 114 ). Various other exemplary methods, devices, systems, etc., are also disclosed.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20050183329