F-secure Corporation

Igor Afanasiev

Veli-Jussi Kesti

Andrew Patel

Jarkko Konola

Yury Yakovlev

Heikki Hannikainen

Janne Pirttilahti

Urmas Rahu

There is provided a method for privacy protection including: identifying an API request being related to a tracking service; generating and sending a predetermined number of initial requests to the tracking service when processing the API requests to the tracking service; storing the initial requests and respective responses related to the initial requests from the API in a database; analysing body objects of the stored initial requests and respective responses and generating a dynamic response recipe on the basis of the analysis; and generating a response including a response body acceptable by the tracking process on the basis of the generated dynamic response recipe.

Method for privacy protection

According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a method of protecting a user from a compromised web resource. The method may include monitoring a user's requests for trusted web resources to determine one or more web resources to be checked. The method may include querying a network database based on the determined one or more web resources to obtain historical data relating to whether any of the one or more web resources has been compromised at any time during a preceding time period. The method may include providing a predetermined response to protect the user if any of the one or more web resources has been compromised.

Protecting a user from a compromised web resource

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Helsinki, Finland

Igor Afanasiev