US Patent Issued to NetScout Systems on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for protecting DNS servers from water torture DDOS attacks" (Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,300, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NetScout Systems Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for protecting DNS servers from water torture DDOS attacks" was invented by Brian St. Pierre (Acworth, N.H.) and Steinthor Bjarnason (Fjerdinby, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed. The system can include a network monitoring device connected to a communications network. The network monitoring device to store a probabilistic data structure indicating one or more domain names; receive a response data packet from the DNS server, the response data packet comprising a first domain name transmitted in a query to th...