Multi-core processors from Intel and others are providing massive performance enhancements for network-based security scanning elements.
The India reception supposedly had around 400 people but I decided not to wait on line after I heard that only 7 people a minute could get through the security scanning machines.
Bowes, a consultant with Dash9 security and a developer for security scanning tool NMap, says he collected the passwords to help researchers figure out how users choose passwords and make the authentication process more secure.
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Working as a single security architecture, this next-generation endpoint is focused on making the end user experience excellent, and it leaves the heavy lifting of security scanning to the increasingly powerful boxes in the network or in the cloud.
When HP announced yesterday that it would acquire software security scanning firm Fortify, the news contradicted hints of an upcoming IPO that Fortify chief executive John Jack had dropped in an interview with me earlier this year.
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Sendmail's new NT 3.0 product provides NT administrators with security features, like header scanning, relay access control, and better defenses against theoretical attacks, to which Unix and Linux system administrators are already accustomed.
The last time we saw T-rays, they were busy scanning bodies for tumors and security threats.
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They suggest using Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) for vulnerability scanning but of course there are many options from free to expensive.
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Other measures have included closing the Sangatte refugee camp, tightening security at the Channel Tunnel and using scanning equipment that can find people hiding inside vehicles.
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New York's Empire State Building has increased security personnel by 25% and added scanning machines at all five entrances, to the tune of several million dollars.
Security technologist Bruce Schneier believes that the body scanning machines are a waste of money.
Version 1.5 of Windows Live OneCare was co-launched with Vista and uses the same scanning "engine" as the security tools bundled with the operating system.
The Empire State Building in New York has increased security personnel by 25% and added baggage-scanning machines at its five entrances to the tune of several million dollars.
Despite the fact that every security framework from Cobit to ITIL to ISO calls for vulnerability scanning, and PCI DSS requires it, most organizations are still doing it on an ad-hoc basis, if at all.
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Technology such as fingerprint readers have become fairly commonplace on PCs, while security conscious private sector and government organizations have been using retinal and iris scanning technology for decades.
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Funding homeland security on a needs rather than a political basis, for example, or scanning all freight at ports.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A system using fingerprint scanning and face recognition systems, designed to speed up passenger transit times and increase security, is beginning a trial at Heathrow airport's Terminal 3.
Negrin, a 44-year old TSA worker in Miami, faces assault charges after beating a fellow airport security employee who mocked the size of his genitals after they were revealed in a full-body scanning exercise, reports thesmokinggun.com.
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Washington (CNN) -- One hundred and fifty new full-body scanning machines are set to be placed in airports across the United States as federal authorities work to close security loopholes exposed by the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner.
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