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Protecting electronic assets using false profiles in social networks

  • US 8,856,928 B1
  • Filed: 06/28/2012
  • Issued: 10/07/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of protecting a secure network from malicious communications, the method comprising:

  • configuring, on the secure network, receiving circuitry to identify communications that include a particular user identifier;

    storing the particular user identifier in a server remote from the secure network;

    receiving, at the secure network, a particular communication;

    verifying, by the receiving circuitry, whether the particular communication includes the particular user identifier;

    issuing an alert when the particular communication includes the particular user identifier;

    not issuing the alert when the particular communication does not include the particular user identifier, wherein the server hosts a website of a social network and maps values of the user identifier corresponding to each employee of the set of employees to an employee profile on the social network;

    wherein storing the particular user identifier includes;

    sending the particular user identifier to the server, the server generating an employee profile of a false employee on the social network from the particular user identifierwherein the particular communication that includes the particular user identifier is sent by a malicious user and further includes identification information identifying the malicious user; and

    wherein the method further comprises;

    extracting the identification information identifying the malicious user; and

    issuing the alert upon receiving communications that include the identification information identifying the malicious user.

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