Microsoft Patents Technology to Identify Who Is Behind a Cyberattack
Every cyberattack leaves a pattern, and Microsoft wants to turn that pattern into a fingerprint that security teams can search, compare, and…
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Samsung Patents a Way to Let Your Smartwatch Verify Mobile Payments
Samsung is working on a system where your smartwatch does the heavy lifting when you pay with your phone, automatically confirming it's…
Google Patent Targets Location-Based Ads Without Revealing Where Users Are
Google has filed a patent that figures out which ads to show you based on where you are, without any single server…
Meta Patents a System That Unlocks All Your Devices When You Log Into One
Meta is working on a way to let one login cascade across all your gadgets at once, so your phone, glasses, watch,…
Apple Patents a Pre-Transfer Safety Check Before Sending Secure Data
Before any sensitive data moves between Apple services, this patent adds a checkpoint: one service asks another whether certain conditions are met,…
Microsoft Patents a Login System That Picks the Right Security Test for Each User
Not every security challenge fits every person or device, and Microsoft thinks the mismatch is costing users and security teams alike. This…
Qualcomm Patents a Way for Car Computers to Verify Each Other's Software Updates
Modern cars can carry dozens of tiny computers, and many of them are too limited to verify whether a software update is…
Google Patents a Way to Split Privacy Protection Across Multiple Servers
When one system controls all the privacy protection on sensitive data, a single bad actor can undo it. Google's new patent spreads…
Salesforce Patents a System to Block Harmful Requests Before They Reach Its Cloud Servers
Every time a bad actor sends a malicious request to a cloud service, something has to catch it before it does damage.…
Salesforce Patents a Quantum-Assisted System for Blocking Malicious Web Traffic
Salesforce is exploring whether quantum computing techniques can make network security better at catching malicious traffic that slips past today's filters. The…
AMD Patent Would Stop AI Chatbots From Producing Harmful Outputs Before They Escape
AMD is patenting a system where one AI sits inside a chip and watches another AI's internal thought process in real time,…
Salesforce Patents a System That Flags Harmful Data Requests Before They Execute
Most database attacks succeed because a malicious query looks like any other SQL command until it's too late. Salesforce has filed a…
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