While the government has acknowledged there will be a 0.1 per cent rate of false positives - which translates to around 24,000 people a year in total this year - it appears that other flaws in the technology could throw a spanner in the works.
Many intrusion prevention solutions have suffered from a high rate of false positives, causing some non-threatening traffic to be dropped. Through its recently announced acquisition of NetScreen Technologies, Juniper will have a strong security...
Email users are keen to have unsolicited emails filtered out, but are undoing much of the labour-saving good work of their filters by then insisting on seeing all mails before they are deleted in order to check for false positives.
Computer crime experts at the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) have been called in to help investigate an attempted denial of service attack on Greater Manchester Police. GMP's systems withstood the email attack and the force immediately...
Simon Janes, international operations manager for Ibas, said: "It's no different to parachuting officers into another country to investigate something. Chief UK police officers are asking the government for new powers that would allow them to...
CME-540 detected. The goal of CME is to offer a neutral, shared identification method that cuts through the naming clutter. Even if those companies disagree about the risk assessment or the background of the malicious software, CME will ignore this...