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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2017
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Adam Glick, Culver City, CA (US);
Akshata Krishnamoorthy Rao, Mountain View, CA (US);
Feng Li, Ontario, CA;
Douglas Schlatter, Playa Vista, CA (US);
CA, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for automatically blocking Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol (WPAD) attacks may include (i) automatically detecting, by a computing device, a WPAD request for a configuration file, (ii) identifying, by the computing device, a server attempting to fulfill the WPAD request for the configuration file, (iii) determining, by the computing device, that the server is not included in a whitelist of WPAD servers for the configuration file, and (iv) automatically performing, by the computing device and based on the determination that the server is not included in the whitelist, a security action to secure the WPAD request for the configuration file. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.