Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application filed by Boeing. This is not surprising, as Boeing engineers make new developments regularly. What’s interesting is that the major aircraft and aerospace corporation is going to receive a patent for a service that recognizes emails containing malware, Doman Name Wire reports.
However, this should not come as a surprise either. Boeing, just like any large company, regularly suffers from hacker attacks, mostly from phishing emails. Apparently, Boing experts, dissatisfied with the existing protection means, decided to develop their own. The patent application says that anti-malware efforts have largely relied on blacklisting domains that are associated with illegal activity and whose emails should be blocked. Yet cybercriminals constantly register new domain names thus outrunning the creators of blacklists.
The solution suggested by Boeing is simple. When an email is received, a program queries the Whois database and checks the date of the domain registration. If the date is within a set timeframe, the email – depending on the settings – is either deleted or marked as suspicious.
