US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for mitigating domain name system amplification attacks" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,907, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for mitigating domain name system amplification attacks" was invented by John R. B. Woodworth (Amissville, Va.) and Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for mitigating DNS amplification attacks are provided. In one example, a threat intelligence system collects data about the requests received by a DNS server, and/or responses generated by the DNS server. The threat intelligence system triggers a threat mitigation action upon detecting evidence (in one or more forms) of a DNS amplificatio...