US Patent Issued to HYAS Infosec on May 26 for "Detection of domain hijacking during DNS lookup" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,054, issued on May 26, was assigned to HYAS Infosec Inc. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Detection of domain hijacking during DNS lookup" was invented by Christopher Michael Davis (Nanaimo, Canada), Steven Mark Heyns (Nanaimo, Canada) and Paul Cornelius van Gool (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein enables detection of domain hijacking when a DNS resolver is performing a DNS lookup. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving a DNS request from a requesting computing system. The DNS request includes a domain name for which the requesting computing system is requesting resolution of a ...