US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on July 21 for "Detecting privilege escalation achieved by manipulating settings" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,306, issued on July 21, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Detecting privilege escalation achieved by manipulating settings" was invented by Michael Page Kasper (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Bryan Childs (Poughkeepisie, N.Y.), Andrew C. M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.), Diane Marie Stamboni (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Joshua David Steen (Fishkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein include generating a safe copy of a first control block for an operating system, recording the safe copy in memory, initiating a test of an authorized service associated with the operating system, identifying a vul...