terrorism
The Inevitability of False Positives
I was reading an article about web scanner coverage and false positives by Larry Suto that RSnake linked to on ha.ckers. Though this is only tangentially related to the actual paper, it reminded me of something interesting — the inevitability of false positives when detecting something rare. When measuring the error of a detection process, [...]
SCADA Hacking Renders Vital Infrastructure Vulnerable
Forbes.com recently had an article called “America’s Hackable Backbone” regarding the recent surge in SCADA hacking. SCADA, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition, is a truly ancient protocol, in use for over 20 years, which was not remotely designed with security in mind. At the time, SCADA was used only on dedicated networks that lacked any [...]
