US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Aug. 5 for "Network attack detection with targeted feature extraction from exploit tools" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,910, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Network attack detection with targeted feature extraction from exploit tools" was invented by Zhibin Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jin Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Yu Fu (Campbell, Calif.), Stefan Achleitner (Arlington, Va.), Bo Qu (Saratoga, Calif.) and Lei Xu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for detecting malicious SQL or command injection strings. The method includes obtaining an SQL or command injection string and determining whether the command injection strin...