AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP

John Feaver

David Chen

Tony Hansen

Chesla Catherine Wechsler

Amir Mehmood Sheikh

Gerald Maziarski

Earle H West

Amy Susan Miller

Disclosed is a method and system for detecting a zombie attack in a network having a plurality of computers. The method and system include a network analysis module for determining, for each computer, a working set of email addresses associated with emails sent by each computer. A zombie attack is detected by determining at least one of: 1) at least one computer in the plurality is transmitting more than a threshold rate of emails, 2) that at least one of the computers is transmitting more than a first threshold number of emails to email addresses outside of its associated working set, 3) that a first threshold number of computers in the plurality are transmitting email messages to email addresses outside of their associated working set, and 4) that more than a second threshold number of computers are transmitting more than a second threshold number of emails to a recipient computer.

Method and apparatus for detecting zombie-generated spam

A method provides for permission-based access to personal information over a communication network. The method includes entering specified owner personal information in an owner terminal, by an owner, to establish a secure owner profile, which is stored in an owner database. The method also includes entering specified user personal information in a user terminal, by a user, to establish a secure user profile, which is stored in a user database. The method further includes entering a user request in the user terminal requesting permission to receive a designated piece of the owner personal information from the secure owner profile. A server determines whether to approve the user request; and provides permission to use the designated piece of the owner personal information to the user over the communication network after the user request is approved by the server.

Method and system for providing permission-based access to sensitive information

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