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Intrusion Detection System (IDS)

whitepaper They also lack the intelligence to identify or remediate the vulnerabilities targeted by malicious exploits. Conventional IDS rely on signatures or anomalies, producing an ever-increasing quantity of data, including false positive and false negatives.

Tags: intrusion detection systems, vulnerability, anti, intelligent

[10 Apr 2008]

Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Passive TCP Measurements

whitepaper The focus of this study is to identify the 'root cause' links, i.e.the links that are responsible for the majority of the losses or reorders found on the end-to-end TCP connection. It suggests a new root cause criterion and a cost-effective...

Tags: tcp - ip

[14 Jan 2008]

Scalable Dynamic Deadlock Analysis of Multi-Threaded Programs

whitepaper The algorithm is interesting because it can identify deadlock potentials even though no deadlocks occur in the examined execution, and therefore it scales very well in contrast to more formal approaches to deadlock detection.

Tags: java

[08 Jan 2008]

iPhone 'mugging fear' unfounded, say police

News He added: "We are continuing to work closely with businesses to identify new technology that could be considered lucrative to criminals. The crackdown - dubbed Operation Prestige - began back in October, targeting eBay sellers of stolen mobiles...

Tags: iphone, nmpcu, crime, handsets

[07 Jan 2008]

Fuzzy logic tech project to help the elderly

News These sensors can monitor people's movements, capture sleep patterns or measure pulse and respiration, meaning they can identify medical emergencies or diagnose health problems. Using the information gathered by the sensors, fuzzy logic will be...

Tags: intelligence, care, research, computers

[03 Jan 2008]

Who Let the Hackers In? Preventing Social Engineers from Partying on Your Network

whitepaper Proactively identify and expose client-side vulnerabilities Distinguish real threats from false positives Through their Web browsers, e-mail clients, and other apps, end users can unwittingly open the back door to high-profile data breaches, so it...

Tags: anti-hacking, techrepublic, vulnerabilities, engineering

[12 Dec 2007]

Xprobe V2.0: A "Fuzzy" Approach to Remote Active Operating System Fingerprinting

whitepaper Usually, the process is done by utilizing strict signature matching to identify the type of the remote operating system. The operating system fingerprinting tools that rely on strict signature matching face several problems with their way of...

Tags: network operating systems

[05 Dec 2007]

How DNS Misnaming Distorts Internet Topology Mapping

whitepaper This paper develops techniques to automatically identify these misnamings, and determine the actual locations, which it validates against the configuration of the ISP's routers. While the actual number of misnamings is small, these errors induce a...

Tags: ip technologies, isp, names, path

[09 Jun 2007]

YouTube copyright filter nearly ready: Google

News The new system, which he called Claim Your Content, will automatically identify copyright material so it can be removed. When NBC's Seigenthaler pointed out that Microsoft has expressed concern about Google's size and the safety of privacy on the...

Tags: viacom, youtube, copyright, schmidt

[17 Apr 2007]

CA Message Manager: Natural Language Processing Vs. Keyword Searching

whitepaper CA Message Manager provides the most accurate, complete, and consistent method available to identify and flag message content that could raise legal and compliance issues, through the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Tags: database management, manager, processing, message

[22 Dec 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 24.11.06

Round-Up The police claim this could greatly reduce the need for lengthy trips back to the station in some cases and it will also help them identify people already on the database. It used to be the case that the decent law abiding citizens of the UK could...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[24 Nov 2006]

HP owns up to probing rank and file

News An HP representative confirmed two current employees had their personal records targeted but would not identify the employees or say which records were accessed. HP has come under fire for launching an investigation that employed the practice of...

Tags: pretexting, dunn, hp

[14 Sep 2006]

The A to Z of biometrics

The A to Z of biometrics

News Argentinean policeman Juan Vucetich was the first to identify a criminal by using their fingerprints, way back in 1892. All exploit the fundamental physical differences between human beings - whether in the form of the ridges on our fingers, the...

Tags: biometrics

[20 Jul 2006]

Tool Talk: Go Hack Yourself! See How Automated Penetration Testing With CORE IMPACT Can Make Your Network More Secure

whitepaper By performing a penetration test, one can identify which vulnerabilities are critical, which are insignificant, and which are false positives. This allows intelligently applying patches and allocating security resources when and where they are...

Tags: anti-hacking, testing, vulnerabilities, penetration

[09 Jun 2006]

Can email ID beat the spammers?

News It requires ISPs, companies and other internet domain holders to publish SPF (Sender Policy Framework) records to identify their mail servers. But we have to recommend to our customers that they do not do any filtering on it, because there are too...

Tags: email authentication, spam

[20 Apr 2006]

$2.4m spam ring shut down

News According to the FTC, the spam email contained false or forged header information, included deceptive subject headings, failed to identify email as advertisements or solicitations, failed to notify consumers they had a right to opt out of...

Tags: spam

[10 Apr 2006]

ID theft 'passport' mooted

News Van Dyke said: "The process of issuing official paperwork or cards to allow individuals to identify themselves to law enforcement that they have been victims of identity fraud should help end the perpetrator's spree of crime.

Tags: id theft passport, identity theft, id theft

[22 Mar 2006]

Tax credit fiasco: 8,800 identities stolen

News A statement from HMRC said: "It is nonsense to say that the tax credits system is to blame in this case when it was HMRC who were first to identify the Network Rail fraud, to inform Network Rail that their employee identities had been stolen, and...

Tags: tax credits, tax, inland revenue

[19 Jan 2006]

Opinion: ID cards - a fiasco waiting to happen

Comment After all, how can you identify the terrorist if you have a system which can only identify 95 per cent of the population? We know that biometric testing is not an exact science and there are a number of people who come up as false positives.

Tags: id cards

[16 Jan 2006]

Stamp out dodgy domain registration, Icann told

News Smith, a Republican from Texas, said in a statement released on Wednesday: "Vendors unwilling to identify themselves publicly are more than likely fraudulent. More than eight per cent of all internet domain names are registered with false or...

Tags: registration, domain, domain name, domain names

[08 Dec 2005]

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