US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on Aug. 19 for "System and method for scrubbing DNS in a telecommunications network to mitigate attacks" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,519, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"System and method for scrubbing DNS in a telecommunications network to mitigate attacks" was invented by Joelle T. Maslak (Golden, Colo.), Todd J. Williamson (Denver) and Kevin Brady (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for providing a proxy server or scrubbing service for an authoritative domain name server (DNS) of a CDN to prevent or otherwise mitigate attacks on the server. The proxy server may receive incoming requests to the authoritative DNS and det...