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False positives?
Talkback I wonder how many erroneous cut-offs will be needed before this nasty piece of legislation is repealed.
[May 13, 2009, 12:28]
ATLANTIDES: An Architecture for Alert Verification in Network Intrusion Detection Systems
White Papers This paper presents an architecture1 designed for alert verification (i.e.to reduce false positives) in network intrusion-detection systems. The false positives raised by the NIDS analyzing the incoming traffic (which can be either signature- or...
[June 12, 2008, 1:01]
Sun proves the open market with MySQL
Leader Sun's acquisition of MySQL is easier to define in negatives than positives. But $1bn buys you some positives, too — in this case, 11 million users at roughly $100 a head. It is not a company filling a hole in its technology portfolio: Sun already...
[January 17, 2008, 17:09]
An Efficient and Intelligent Intrusion Detection and Response System Using Virtual Private Networks, Firewalls and Packet Filters
White Papers Due to the high percentage of alerts generated by such systems, the level of false positives is among the significant problems. This paper presents intelligent strategies for reduction of false positives and infrastructure protection using a novel...
[June 19, 2008, 1:01]
University Uses Hosted Filtering Solution to Reduce Spam by 85 Percent
White Papers The university's IT staff were creating manual rules to block spam, an effort that generated too many false positives and was not the most productive use of their time. The university has reduced spam by 85 percent and completely eliminated false...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
Top Benefits of Symantec Protection Suite
White Papers Tired of all the false positives you get with anti-phishing products? See how Symantec can help protect against phishing threats with less than one in a million false positives. Anti-virus is not enough to protect your organization.
[July 14, 2009, 10:35]
Solve the spam problem: Independent test report proves new approach achieves 99.997% spam catch rate
White Papers What is needed is advanced technologies that can defeat spam reliably, minimize the number of false positives, not be rendered obsolete by new spammer techniques, and be deployed and managed inexpensively.
[June 6, 2009, 1:20]
Evaluating Host Intrusion Detection Systems.
White Papers While HIDSs and Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) greatly differ, similar evaluations have been performed on both types of IDSs by assessing metrics associated with the classification algorithm (e.g.true positives, false positives).
[June 18, 2008, 1:01]
US gov't report: Data mining is ineffective
News Inevitable false positives will result in "ordinary, law-abiding citizens and businesses" being incorrectly flagged as suspects. Instead, they aim to produce a scholarly evaluation of the current technologies that exist for data mining, their...
[October 8, 2008, 14:59]
Microsoft's own antivirus fails to secure Vista
News In order to be awarded a pass, the software had to detect all the viruses with no false positives. The other 11, including software from Computer Associates, Fortinet, F-Secure, Kaspersky, Sophos and Symantec, detected all the viruses with no false...
[February 6, 2007, 13:08]
Microsoft: Gmail is a virus
News The software maker is reviewing its procedures and processes in order to minimise the occurrence of further false positives, the Microsoft representative said. False positives happen occasionally with security software.
[November 14, 2006, 8:23]
RSA calls for 'thinking' security systems
News The problem is with false positives," Schneier told ZDNet.co.uk. We're not at the stage where we can tune out false positives. Security company RSA has called for security systems to use artificial intelligence, but some experts claim the...
[April 9, 2008, 11:27]
Businesses warned of profiling dangers
News The information commissioner said that both businesses and police need to avoid false positives and negatives in their data, especially as police start to adopt profiling techniques used in the private sector.
[March 28, 2007, 17:26]
Surveillance or dead lock?
News Third, IDSs generate a huge number of false positives, telling you that your network is being attacked when it's not. They do not analyse it and then effect a response -- which could, in fact, be the wrong response, as we have seen with false...
[August 20, 2002, 20:19]
Symantec attacks Microsoft's Forefront Client Security
News However, in a conference call after the Infosecurity event, Margaret Dawson, group product manager for security and access product marketing at Microsoft Corporation, insisted that the common engine for OneCare and FCS was "strong", and that the...
[May 9, 2007, 16:32]
Developer considers McAfee suit after 'Trojan' error
News The program is then matched to the 30 million files of known good code to make sure there are no false positives. We do have a large database of known good files and programs that we scan against to make sure that there are no false positives.
[September 10, 2004, 11:10]
HP Scanjet G4050 review
Reviews But for the occasional batches of positives and negatives, and frequent print scans, it's a good deal for the money. A stiff metal cover snaps snugly over the transparency adapter built into the lid, and HP supplies several templates for laying out...
[January 8, 2007, 8:44]
Porn outsmarts search filters
News As a result, text-based analysis turns up a high proportion of both false positives and false negatives, screening out wren tits and wood screws while admitting more salacious content. But this method returns its own share of false negatives...
[July 2, 2001, 14:11]
Microsoft: OneCare should not have been rolled out
News Kaspersky said that false positives are not just a problem for Microsoft, but for the whole antivirus industry. He said that about 1 percent of Kaspersky records were false positives, but they were almost totally stopped by the company's test robots.
[March 16, 2007, 12:03]
ComputerWeekly - Preventing Spam Over IP Telephony
White Papers Spam filters can easily be trained to give better than 90% effectiveness with zero false positives, and for those who still suffer from a lot of spam in their inboxes, they are either not updating their spam databases often enough, or they just do...
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
