US Patent Issued to QOMPLX on Oct. 7 for "Detecting KERBEROS ticket attacks within a domain" (Colorado, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,906, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Detecting KERBEROS ticket attacks within a domain" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.) and Andrew Sellers (Monument, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for mitigating authentication ticket attacks within a domain is provided, comprising an authentication object inspector configured to observe a new authentication object generated by an identity provider, and retrieve the new authentication object; and a hashing engine configured to retrieve the new authentication object from the authentication object inspector, calculate a cryptographic h...