US Patent Issued to Horizon 3 AI on Sept. 15 for "Cookie encryption key compromise via autonomous pentesting" (Florida, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,101, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Horizon 3 AI Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Cookie encryption key compromise via autonomous pentesting" was invented by James Walter Horseman (Wesley Chapel, Fla.) and Zachary Daniel Hanley (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous pentesting agent may execute an autonomous pentest of a network to gain unauthorized access to a network asset of the network associated with a user and identify cookies associated with the user stored on the network asset. The agent may retrieve an encrypted version of a master key used to encrypt the cookies. The agent may retrieve multiple keys used to encr...