Dynamically generated whitelists help stop hackers

Whitelists have traditionally been used as a way of limiting what users can do, but they're time consuming to maintain and keep up to date. Florida-based Terra Privacy is addressing this with a system where destinations are continually inserted and removed from the whitelist in real-time, in concert with the user's activities. Hacker Deterrent Pro's system provides effective protection against browser-injected trojans. It uses a Transient Whitelist that only contains the addresses of open webpages and their declared additional connections. All other browser traffic remains blocked. This means browser-injected trojans are blocked from connecting to their command and control servers.… [Continue Reading]