Patent ID: 11882096
Assignee: OVERSEC, UAB
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium configured to store instructions, which when executed by a processor associated with a virtual private network (VPN), cause the processor to:
maintain, in a central database, stored host device information related to one or more host devices associated with including providing harmful data, which potentially includes harmful content in association with provided data of interest that is requested by a user device, the harmful content enabling the one or more host devices or a third party to collect private information associated with the user device;
configure a VPN server to receive, from a domain name services (DNS) server, obtained host device information associated with a host device based at least in part on receiving an indication that the data of interest is to be requested from the host device;
configure the VPN server to determine that the data of interest potentially includes harmful content based at least in part on determining that the obtained host device information matches the stored host device information;
configure the VPN server to transmit, based at least in part on determining that the data of interest potentially includes harmful content, a notification to the user device prior to obtaining the data of interest from the host device, the notification indicating that the data of interest to be requested potentially includes harmful content and being based at least in part on a type of an operating system being utilized by the user device and on a notification token assigned by the infrastructure device to the user device in connection with the operating system being utilized by the user device; and
update the stored device information in the central database to decrease a likelihood that the host device includes harmful content in data provided by the host device when the user device selects to receive the data of interest or to increase the likelihood that the host device includes harmful content in data provided by the host device when the user device selects to refrain from receiving the data of interest.