Microsoft Patents a Security Engine That Blocks Files Based on Filename Tricks and Device History
Malware often hides in plain sight — a file named 'Report.pdf.exe' looks like a document but runs like a program. Microsoft's new…
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Microsoft Patents a Multi-Layer Security Graph Engine for Cloud Incident Management
Managing cloud security means juggling thousands of interconnected resources — servers, identities, permissions, network paths — and querying all of that in…
Google Patents a Timed Rotation System for Ephemeral Cryptographic Keys
Every secure connection you make relies on cryptographic keys — and how often those keys rotate is a quiet but critical detail.…
Microsoft Wants LLMs to Do Your Threat Modeling For You
Threat modeling is one of the most time-consuming parts of secure software development. Microsoft is patenting an approach that hands the job…
Microsoft Patents an AI Prompt Security System That Profiles Both Models and Users
What if your AI assistant could tell when something about a conversation felt off — not because a word matched a blocklist,…
Microsoft Patents AI Agent System for Searching Fragmented Cybersecurity Data
Security teams routinely juggle dozens of databases that don't speak the same language — literally. Microsoft's new patent describes an AI agent…
Microsoft Patents an AI System That Reads Security Logs and Summarizes Threats Automatically
Security logs are famously unreadable — thousands of raw lines that analysts have to sift through to find the one event that…
Microsoft Patents a Real-Time Risk-Scoring System for Human and Bot Identities
When an employee — or an automated script — asks for extra permissions, Microsoft's patent wants a risk score calculated on the…
Microsoft Patents Low-Cost Masking Circuit for Post-Quantum Cryptography
Quantum-resistant encryption is only useful if attackers can't extract keys by watching power consumption or timing. Microsoft's new patent targets that exact…
Google Patents a Privacy-Preserving Compute System Blending MPC and Trusted Enclaves
What if you could run a calculation on sensitive data — and none of the computers involved ever saw the raw numbers?…
Google Patents a Privacy-Preserving Ad Attribution System Using Attestation Tokens
Google is trying to solve one of mobile advertising's most contentious problems — figuring out which ad caused you to install an…
Google Patents a Privacy Filter That Scrubs Your Voice Queries Before Sharing With Third-Party AI Assistants
When you ask a voice assistant something personal, who else hears it? Google is patenting a system that decides — automatically —…
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