US Patent Issued to CACI, Inc.-Federal on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for detecting and attacking a VPN" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,202, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CACI, Inc.-Federal (Reston, Va.).

"Systems and methods for detecting and attacking a VPN" was invented by Edward F. Henson (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may be configured to identify VPN traffic. Some embodiments may: obtain a plurality of default port numbers and/or protocol types; obtain information continually updated to indicate at least one of a predetermined host or DNS; and detect VPN traffic based on a used port number and/or used protocol type, the VPN traffic being generated based on user-interaction at a client device. The detection may be performed by comparin...