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Blogs
| www.computerweekly.com
| 17/03/2009

...report highlighting several "High Risk" issues. On closer inspection you discover that most of them are either false positives, or irrelevant. ii) A network scan report is given to a newly CISSP qualified security analyst and he's asked... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/stuart_king/2009/03/top-annoyances.html

FBI database holds records on 1.5 billion people

News
| www.computerweekly.com
| 24/09/2009

...bodies. Critics have expressed concern that the US government is using an unproven technology that could give false positives that would subject innocent people to unnecessary scrutiny. Strict enforcement of data protection legislation... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/09/24/237851/fbi-database-holds-records-on-1.5-billion-people.htm

Anti-phishing toolbars? Too many false positives...

News
| www.computerweekly.com
| 30/11/2006

...phishing toolbars? Too many false positives... A survey of so-called...toolbars is their susceptibility to false positives, with legitimate sites being...effective to be worthwhile. And false positives are the bane of many attempted... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/11/30/220287/anti-phishing-toolbars-too-many-false-positives.htm

Top four government data collection issues

In-Depth
| www.computerweekly.com
| 25/09/2009

...information to identify people in crowds. But even the most advanced technologies available today present too many false positives to be taken seriously. "The days when all of this is connected together and a camera says, 'Oh there's Joe... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/09/25/237875/top-four-government-data-collection-issues.htm

Facebook: a remedy for spam...

Blogs
| www.computerweekly.com
| 06/08/2007

...email basket due to the phrases used in the previous sentence. And that's the problem: spam filters are prone to "false positives" - where a legitimate message is wrongly identified as spam. Facebook illustrates how a social network can... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/IT-FUD-blog/2007/08/facebook-a-remedy-for-spam.html

Network IPS is Dead - Long Live Application IPS (David Lacey's IT Security Blog)

Blog
| www.computerweekly.com
| 18/03/2008

...would be obsolete by 2005. They saw problems with false positives, false negatives, bandwidth limitations and the...Systems that are failing to penetrate the market. False positives continue to be a problem for network-level systems... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/david_lacey/2008/03/network-ips-is-dead-long-live.html

IT security paramount at Winter Olympics

Case-Study
| www.computerweekly.com
| 07/02/2006

...Atos Origin reduce the amount of false positives - alerts thrown out by the monitoring...security risk. "We get a lot of false positives and we need to reduce the number...check is crucial. "To reduce false positives, we need to understand our... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/02/07/214038/it-security-paramount-at-winter-olympics.htm

Data loss detection and prevention

Blogs
| www.computerweekly.com
| 12/09/2008

...But we have to be confident that we can avoid the "false positives". Otherwise we might end up closing down important...protected and what is not. Because of this, there are no false positives and it works in real time. As a bonus, it provides... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/david_lacey/2008/09/data_loss_detection_and_preven.html

David Lacey's IT Security Blog

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...from the chaff. And that’s the problem. We simply don’t have enough of a basis to filter out the mass of false positives that will emerge. Smart use of neural networks, especially Kohonan mapping, can be tremendously useful when... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/david_lacey/security-solutions/

Network IPS is Dead - Long Live Application IPS

Blogs
| www.computerweekly.com
| 18/03/2008

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Explosives Detection Technology Could Reduce Mammography False Positives and Unnecessary Biopsies -

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| 24/11/2009

...Technology Could Reduce Mammography False Positives and Unnecessary Biopsies Guardian...improvements are needed to reduce false positives and increase accuracy. As mammography...failure to identify cancer) and false positives (interpret non-cancer as cancer... http://www.zibb.com/article/5689925/Explosives+Detection+Technology+Could+Reduce+Mammography+False+Positives+and+Unnecessary+Biopsies

Spam filters: Users still fearful over false positives