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Diagnostic Utility Statistics
Downloads Calculates diagnostic efficiency statistics: sensitivity, specificity, true and false positive rates, positive predictive power, negative predictive power, odds ratio, kappa, likelihood ratios, diagnostic odds ratio, phi coefficient, conditional...
[January 2, 2010, 0:32]
Biltmore Who's Who SCAM Hollywood Florida - False or Unfairly Targeted
Blog Biltmore Who’s Who Scam - False or unfairly targeted. The Biltmore Who’s Who roster includes thousands of members, and while no entity can ever claim to please every potential client, many members rave at Biltmorewhoswho.com about the positive...
[December 22, 2009, 7:54]
Trend Micro to protect cloud servers
News In addition, it includes the ability to create a "known good state", which can reduce false-positive alerts resulting from normal system updates, such as patching. Trend Micro has updated its flagship Deep Security product to protect cloud-based...
[October 27, 2009, 7:06]
HSBC home banking web site trojan "false report",says bank
Blog Comment Then that's a pretty bad false positive. Sometimes removing a false positive can be devastating. Not so in this case I assume. Still, the words 'Trojan' and 'Online banking' send a shiver down the old spine.
[August 17, 2009, 9:45]
Users upset as CA antivirus attacks Windows
News CA said it learned on Wednesday that its software had detected the file "Win32/AMalum.ZZQIA" as a false positive and was urging customers to update Signature 6606 to address the situation. This latest nonsense with a false positive detection that...
[July 10, 2009, 11:55]
Anomaly Based Web Phishing Page Detection
White Papers As shown by the experiments, phishing detector functions with low miss rate and low false-positive rate. Many anti-phishing schemes have recently been proposed in literature. Despite all those efforts, the threat of phishing attacks is not mitigated.
[June 30, 2009, 1:19]
Measuring Intrusion Detection Capability: An Information-Theoretic Approach
White Papers Traditional metrics (e.g.true positive rate and false positive rate) measure different aspects, but no single metric seems sufficient to measure the capability of intrusion detection systems. A fundamental problem in intrusion detection is what...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Network-Based Intrusion Detection Using Adaboost Algorithm
White Papers The experiments demonstrate that the system can achieve an especially low false positive rate while keeping a preferable detection rate, and its computational complexity is extremely low, which is a very attractive property in practice.
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Detection of Web Denial-of-Service Attacks Using Decoy Hyperlinks
White Papers Typical types of decoy hyperlinks are described and experimental results derived from real Web-sites gives the extremely low false positive rate of 0.0421%. In this paper a method for detecting Denial-of-Service attacks in Web sites is presented.
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Ubuntu Jaunty - Positive and Negative
Blog Comment If you want to restore the pre-Jaunty mode of update notifications, run this command in the terminal (or navigate accordingly with the Configuration Editor: apps > update-notifier > auto_launch).gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier...
[April 29, 2009, 15:38]
Measuring the False Negative Rate for Isode's M-Switch Anti-Spam
White Papers A consequence of this is that false positive rate will vary between users. Some users will only receive messages of a type that the anti-spam system will always correctly handle, and see a zero false positive rate.
[February 13, 2009, 0:24]
Enterprise Requirements for Anti-Spam Solutions
White Papers There are a number of features organizations should look for when evaluating an anti-spam product, such as high spam capture and low false-positive rates. This white paper examines the special anti-spam requirements of large organizations.
[February 1, 2009, 2:36]
LCS-TRIM: Dynamic Programming Meets XML Indexing and Querying
White Papers A key innovation here is the use of a series of inter-linked early pruning steps, coupled with a simple index structure that enable them to reduce the search space and eliminate a large number of false positive matches prior to applying the more...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
Trend Micro gives false positive details
Blog Comment Yes, a false positive. False positives are a very dangerous game. Arg! This really irks me. Think, you've put together some small utility program, and one of the virus programs calls it a virus. People talk about it being a trojan on the internet.
[December 22, 2008, 7:05]
AVG antivirus removes Windows system file
News Several users reported an AVG false positive in August, claiming that AVG had falsely identified the IceSword 1.22 rootkit scanner as malware. We can confirm that it was a false alarm. Antivirus organisation AVG has mistakenly identified a core...
[November 11, 2008, 16:37]
Improved Detection System of Denial of Service Attack
White Papers A problem with current intrusion detection systems is that they have many false positive and false negative events. Most of the existing Intrusion detection systems implemented nowadays depend on rule-based expert systems where new attacks are not...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Trend Micro gives false positive details
Blog The false positive identification of Windows systems files by Trend Micro Internet Security began at 4.30pm BST on 4 September with signature 5.521.50. The false positive affected Trend Micro users in Germany and Norway.
[September 10, 2008, 17:28]
Exclaimer Mail Utilities 2007
Downloads In tests, our Anti-Spam component blocked 99% of all incoming junk mail while at the same time returning a 0.001% False Positive rate. Add disclaimers and signatures to your organization's email to help you manage corporate branding...
[August 12, 2008, 8:00]
Selecting Features for Intrusion Detection: A Feature Relevance Analysis on KDD 99 Intrusion Detection Datasets
White Papers Numerous researchers employed the datasets in KDD 99 intrusion detection competition to study the utilization of machine learning for intrusion detection and reported detection rates up to 91% with false positive rates less than 1%.
[June 19, 2008, 1:01]
An Evaluation Technique for Network Intrusion Detection Systems
White Papers This paper addresses the need for an evaluation technique and proposes a comparison technique for current scan detection algorithms that can accurately measure the false positive rate and precision of identified scanners.
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
