US Patent Issued to Centripetal Networks on Dec. 30 for "Methods and systems for prevention of attacks associated with the domain name system" (New Hampshire, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,115, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Centripetal Networks LLC (Portsmouth, N.H.).

"Methods and systems for prevention of attacks associated with the domain name system" was invented by Sean Moore (Hollis, N.H.), Jonathan R. Rogers (Hampton Falls, N.H.) and Steven Rogers (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The attack vectors for some denial-of-service cyber attacks on the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) are bad, bogus, or unregistered domain name DNS requests to resolve domain names that are not registered in the DNS. Some other cyber attacks steal sensitive data by encoding the data in bogus domain names, or domain n...