For our June 2014 issue, we cover recent patents granted in the area of machine learning for detection of malicious communications. The section below covers patents granted recently for methods for detecting malicious botnets, malware, or email transmissions. Number: 8,516,584 Title: Method and system for detecting malicious behavioral patterns in a computer, using machine learning Inventors: R. Moskovitch, D. Stopel, Z. Boger, Y. Shahar, and Y. Elovici Issued: August 20, 2013 Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG (Bonn, DE) Number: 8,688,601 Title: Systems and methods for generating machine learning-based classifiers for detecting specific categories of sensitive information Inventors: S. Jaiswal Issued: April 1, 2014 Assignee: Symantec Corporation (Mountain View, CA) Number: 8,682,812 Title: Machine learning based botnet detection using real-time extracted traffic features Inventors: S. Ranjan Issued: March 25, 2014 Assignee: Narus, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) Number: 8,683,546 Title: Managing security configuration through machine learning, combinatorial optimization and attack graphs Inventors: J. Dunagan Issued: March 25, 2014 Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) Number: 8,401,982 Title: Using sequencing and timing information of behavior events in machine learning to detect malware Inventors: S. Satish and Z. Ramzan Issued: March 19, 2013 Assignee: Symantec Corporation (Mountain View, CA) Number: 8,443,441 Title: System and methods for detecting malicious email transmission Inventors: S. Stolfo. E. Eskin, S. Herskop, and M. Bhattacharya Issued: May 14, 2013 Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, NY) Number: 8,448,245 Title: Automated identification of phishing, phony and malicious web sites Inventors: A. Banerjee and M. Faloutsos Issued: May 21, 2013 Assignee: Stopthehacker.com, JAAL LLC (Riverside, CA) Number: 8,516,590 Title: Malicious advertisement detection and remediation Inventors: A. Ranadive, S. Rizvi, and N. Daswani Issued: August 20, 2013 Assignee: Dasient, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) Number: 8,683,595 Title:Systems and methods for detecting potentially malicious content within near field communication messages Inventors: C. Barker Issued: March 25, 2014 Assignee: Symantec Corporation (Mountain View, CA) Number: 8,640,240 Title: Apparatus and method for using information on malicious application behaviors among devices Inventors: K. Sagoo and K. Jung Issued: January 28, 2014 Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, Korea) If you have an interesting patent to share when we next feature patents related to machine learning, or if you are especially interested in a signal processing research field that you would want to be highlighted in this section, please send email to Shantanu Rane (srane AT pard DOT com).