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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2014
Applicant:
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Inventors:
Oliver Whitehouse, Surrey, GB;
Michael Grant Kirkup, Waterloo, CA;
Christopher Lyle Bender, Kitchener, CA;
Michael Kenneth Brown, Waterloo, CA;
Assignee:
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/145 (2013.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); H04L 63/14 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems for mitigating the effects of a malicious software application are disclosed. A dedicated module on the computing device receives from a malicious software detector a message indicating whether the application is malicious or has a malicious component. The dedicated module obtains a set of permissions to be granted to the application, and instructs software on the computing device that controls the permissions of the application to grant the set of permissions.