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- Needles and haystacks: Balancing precision and recall
- Attivio's Sid Probstein says for traditional search, the conventional model is to return many results to get high recall; somewhere in there are the right answers. But what if you want a more precise answer? Commentary - These terms are bandied about in most every...
- Tags: Recall, Pregnancy, Attivio, Spam Email, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, search, Sid Probstein Attivio, Special to ZDNet, Sid Probstein Attivio, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-10-29
- Commonwealth fined $100k for not mandating antivirus software
- According to a recently published SEC cease-and-desist order, the Commission has recently fined Commonwealth Financial Network $100,000, for not mandating antivirus software on the computers of its representatives, leading to a security incident which took place in November 2008, allowing the cybercriminal behind the attack to place eighteen unauthorized purchase...
- Tags: Software, Electronic Banking, Antivirus Software, Commonwealth Financial Network, Banking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- New botnet hides commands as JPEG images
- What, that's it?That's it for this article? No mention of how prolific it is; what defenses might exist; how to check for it's presence; anything?Without more information, you're fear-mongering. Next time, just type "Boo!".What, that's it? "Without more information, you're fear-mongering. Next time, just type "Boo!"."I think its called, getting...
- Tags: BotNet, JPEG, botnet, JPEG Images
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- Coming in 2010: New Mac Office, and finally, Outlook
- NG - New Graphics... LOLYes we have new icons and more memory hogging resources!Run out now and purchase, in reality Open Officedoes everything for no cost.;)I have yet to find the perfect email clientBut Outlook seems to handle large amounts of email better than most. People save email for years...
- Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Outlook, e-mail, virus
- Discussion threads 2009-08-13
- Absolute Software downplays BIOS rootkit claims
- Following a flood of calls from customers, the company behind the LoJack anti-theft service which researchers from Core Security Technologies recently portrait as a security threat, issued a statement downplaying the researchers' claims. According to the statement, LoJack is neither a rootkit, nor does it behave in...
- Tags: Absolute Software, Anti-theft, Malware, LoJack, Conficker, BIOS, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Rootkits, Security, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Components, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Microsoft study debunks profitability of the underground economy
- Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?! A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year's Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy" debunks...
- Tags: Web, Credit Card, Seller, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Cybercriminal, Economy, Cybercrime-as-a-Service, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Using Co-Presence Communities to Enhance Social Recommendation
- This paper proposes a social recommendation algorithm for use in a research social network environment. The social recommendation algorithm proposed combines the concepts of a relationship ontology and item-based Collaborative Filtering CF. While the network setup in social networking sites can accurately reflect the social landscape of its users, it...
- Tags: Co-presence Community, Recommendation Algorithm, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- White papers 2009-04-10
- RootkitRevealer 1.71 (Windows)
- RootkitRevealer is an advanced rootkit detection utility. It runs on Windows NT 4 and higher and its output lists Registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode or kernel-mode rootkit. RootkitRevealer successfully detects all persistent rootkits published at www.rootkit.com, including AFX, Vanquish and HackerDefender...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, RootkitRevealer, Rootkits, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- Software downloads 2009-01-21
- An Autonomic Approach to Denial of Service Defence
- Denial of service attacks, viruses and worms are common tools for malicious adversarial behaviour in networks. This paper proposes the use of their autonomic routing protocol, the Cognitive Packet Network CPN, as a means to defend nodes from Distributed Denial of Service Attacks DDoS, where one or more attackers generate...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Distributed Denial Of Service, Imperial College London, Security
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Graphical User Interface (GUI) Development for Object Tracking System in Video Sequences
- In an intelligent surveillance system, object tracking provides better sense of security using visual information. Hence, the main purpose of this work is to develop an object motion detection system that detected the presence of motion in video sequences. The proposed system employed background modelling and image differential techniques to...
- Tags: Video, GUI, Object, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- White papers 2008-07-20
- Efficient Tag Detection in RFID Systems
- Off late technological advances have motivated large-scale deployment of RFID systems. However, a number of critical design issues relating to efficient detection of tags remain unresolved. This paper addresses three important problems associated with tag detection in RFID systems: accurately detecting RFID tags in the presence of reader interference (reader...
- Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2008-07-08
- YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose
- Updated: The latest battle in Google's ongoing court battle with Viacom over YouTube copyright infringement is a glass half full or half empty situation. In the half full department, Google scored a legal victory as a judge shot down Viacom requests for the search giant's search code and other critical...
- Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., IP, Video, Viacom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- XML Query Optimization in the Presence of Side Effects
- The emergence of database languages with side effects, notably for XML, raises significant challenges for database compilers and optimizers. This paper extends an algebra for the W3C XML query language with operations that allows data to be immediately updated. They study the impact of that extension on logical optimization, join...
- Tags: Database, Optimization, XML, Association For Computing Machinery, XML Query, Algebra
- White papers 2008-06-12
- A Hybrid Approach to Efficient Detection of Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
- An automated system for detecting network traffic anomalies caused by Denial-of-Service attacks is proposed. The system is designed as a two-stage architecture incorporating the change-point detection methodology, used for early attack identification, and further spectral profiling, used for confirmation of the attack presence. The proposed system is shown to be...
- Tags: Colorado State University, Detection, Distributed Denial Of Service, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Performance Management, Team Management, Business Services, Internet, Security, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- White papers 2008-06-01
- Satellites seeing clearly despite clouds
- Two researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL have developed a mathematical tweak which dramatically improves air pollution detection on cloudy days. They've found a way to reduce cloud-induced glare when satellites measure blue skies on cloudy days, by as much as ten-fold in some cases. 'Because clouds represent one...
- Tags: Wavelength, Pollution, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Fonality boosts presence detection in new PBXtra4.0
- Got a guided tour the other day of business phone system solutions provider Fonality's new PBXtra 4.0 phone system. Announced this morning, the new rev offers enhanced presence detection under the aegis of FindMe with Boomerang Mobile Integration. The sell...
- Tags: Phone, Fonality, Telecom & Utilities, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- 9-1-1 VoIP passes Senate, but that's far from a complete solution
- The IP-Enabled Voice Communications and Public Safety Act of 2007 has just been passed by the U.S. Senate. The hill amends the Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999 to irequire interstate VoIP providers to provide enhanced 9-1-1-services. Not only that,...
- Tags: Hill, U.S. Senate, GPS, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Federal Government, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, Government, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- 2008 Volvo V70
- Photo gallery:2008 Volvo V70The Volvo V70 embarks on its third incarnation for the 2008 model year with a number of external modifications and interior upgrades. A glance at the new V70 body style shows that the blocky, boxy Volvo DNA of old is almost completely gone, replaced by rounded edges...
- Tags: Volvo V70, Volvo, speaker
- Product reviews 2008-02-22
- Microsoft removes another one of WGA's fangs
- This morning Microsoft announced another noteworthy change to its flagship Windows Genuine Advantage WGA program - an update to be rolled out later this month to all Vista users that will display a WGA warning dialog box when it detects either of two common Vista activation cracks. In the same announcement,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Dialog Box, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
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