Nasdaq, Inc.

Prevx Limited

Webroot Inc.

Open Text Corporation

Paul Stubbs

Melvyn Morris

Deepak Chandrasekaran

Markus Hartwig

Darren Harter

David Costello

In one aspect, a method of classifying a computer object as malware includes receiving at a base computer data about a computer object from each of plural remote computers on which the object or similar objects are stored. The data about the computer object received from the plural computers is compared in the base computer. The computer object is classified as malware on the basis of said comparison. In one embodiment, the data about the computer object includes one or more of: executable instructions contained within or constituted by the object; the size of the object; the name of the object; the logical storage location or path of the object on the respective remote computers; the vendor of the object; the software product and version associated with the object; and, events initiated by or involving the object when the object is created, configured or runs on the respective remote computers.

Methods and apparatus for malware threat research

A system is presented that profiles authors and social media data across different media platforms and is capable of determining the author's overall social impact. In one aspect, this is accomplished by using a data retrieval service to trawl various web-sites and social media platforms for information about authors which can then be associated with those authors in a profile database. In one example, an author may post an entry on his/her blog and the data retrieval service can access the profile information of the author, on the blog, where various aspects of the profile information (e.g., real name, employee information, home address) can be matched with candidates in a profile database. From the information gathered, authors can be linked across multiple, different platforms, and an overall social impact of each of the authors can be determined.

Social media profiling for one or more authors using one or more social media platforms

A social intelligence system is presented that streams information from a source, queues the streamed information, analyzes/scores the queued data, and stores the analyzed/scored data in an analysis database. The analyzed/scored data can then be retrieved from the database for post-processing and stored in a client specific database for further reporting. By streaming the data into various message queues and scoring the data before storing in the analysis database, large volumes of data can be efficiently processed and analyzed for a particular person and/or entity.

Social intelligence architecture using social media message queues

Methods and apparatus for dealing with malware

In one aspect, a method of determining the protection that a remote computer has from malware includes receiving at a base computer, details of all or selected security products operating on a remote computer, receiving similar information from other remote computers, and identifying malware process that were not identified by the security products installed on the other remote computers and having a same or similar combination of security products installed on the remote computer.

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