METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR VARYING SOFT INFORMATION RELATED TO THE DISPLAY OF HARD INFORMATION

• US 20150373045A1
• Filed: 08/31/2015
• Published: 12/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SunStone Information Defense Inc.
• Original Assignee: SunStone Information Defense Inc.
• Inventors: Ford, David K.
• Granted Patent: US 10,230,759 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/552 involving long-term monitoring or reporting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/71 to assure secure computing or processing of information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/032 Protect output to user by software means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2119 Authenticating web pages, e.g. with suspicious links
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/123 received data contents, e.g. message integrity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1466 Active attacks involving interception, injection, modification, spoofing of data unit addresses, e.g. hijacking, packet injection or TCP sequence number attacks

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatuses for varying soft information are disclosed. In an example embodiment, a security processor receives, from a transaction server, hard information to transmit to a client device related to a transaction with the client device, and soft information related to the display of the hard information on the client device. The security processor determines a variation of the soft information configured to prevent a malicious application from interacting with the hard information and determines the variation of the soft information does not change how the hard information is displayed at the client device compared to how the hard information was to be displayed using the soft information. Responsive to determining the variation of the soft information does not change how the hard information is displayed, the security processor transmits the hard information and the variation of the soft information to the client device.

Claims

1. A security processor apparatus comprising a memory including instructions, which when executed, cause the security processor apparatus to:

receive, from a transaction server, i) hard information to transmit to a client device related to a transaction with the client device, and ii) soft information related to the display of the hard information on the client device;

determine a variation of the soft information configured to prevent a malicious application from interacting with the hard information;

determine the variation of the soft information does not change how the hard information is displayed at the client device compared to how the hard information was to be displayed using the soft information; and

responsive to determining the variation of the soft information does not change how the hard information is displayed, transmit at least one message to the client device including the hard information and the variation of the soft information.