ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,198, issued on April 7, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Detecting data exfiltration and infiltration over DNS" was invented by Stuart Wray (Cambridge, Great Britain), Felix Schmidt (Zurich), Craig Schelp (Vancouver, Canada) and Desislava Wagenknecht-Dimitrova (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system includes a detector that monitors DNS communications to detect data exfiltration and/or infiltration that is attempted or has occurred in the DNS communications. DNS communications are stored and parsed to distinguish content that is potentially not public being communicated in a prefi...