The NetWitness Spectrum appliance examines all inbound and outbound traffic to determine whether the network traffic is malicious, performs damage assessment and prioritizes potential threats. – NetWitness announced on Jan. 24 a malware analysis appliance
that works with the companys network monitoring platform.
The appliance automates malware analysis so that IT managers
get real-time monitoring, immediate feedback on threats in the network and
prioritization on which issues to address…
Takata is in alliance with a tech firm in the area of ‘biometric intoxication detection’.
The firm with the tech is called TruTouch and it is claimed that new technological advancements make it possible to measure a potential driver’s intoxication level by quickly analysing light reflected from a person’s skin.
The technology sounds interesting, but you need to ‘enrol’ so that the machine can compare the light reflections from your arm from sober you with intoxicated you. Maybe it would be useful in the ‘morning after’ scenario, but I can’t help thinking that many of the accidents caused by drunk drivers wouldn’t be impacted by this, as they tend to know they are intoxicated and that’s not really the issue.
“We have a rich history of developing automotive safety innovations designed to save lives,” said Robert Fisher, TK Holdings Inc. executive vice president.
“TruTouch has proven the capabilities and integrity of the light-based alcohol detection system, and together, we plan to integrate the user-friendly and cost-effective technology into automotive applications. This partnership will advance the commercialisation of these systems, bringing us closer to our vision of a day of zero fatalities due to automotive accidents.”
Good luck with that…
Check out the TruTouch website and the pretty direct rotating messages on the left.
Malware infected with other malware can make life more complicated for antivirus programs. – Malware authors dont always get along – in fact, there have been a number of instances where attackers target each other. But sometimes, malware infecting malware can be a good thing for attackers.
According to Trend Micro Threat
Response Engineer Roland Dela Paz, there has been an uptick of this…
An explosive cat-and-mouse game
CONFLICT creates arms races. As in the struggle against computer hacking or drug detection, stopping bomb-makers is a race between two kinds of innovation: creating the bad stuff and detecting it. Intelligence agencies regularly draw up lists of “substances of interest” and pass them on to firms that design and supply detection technology, says Kevin Riordan, of Smiths, an aviation-security firm. But once a substance can be routinely detected, terrorists will either attempt to conceal it better, or make something else.
A dog’s nose is still a good detector for many explosives. Some have suggested bomb-sniffing bees as a further step. But technology is the basis of the explosive- detection business and it usually works either by examining the density of material using X-rays or by using spectroscopy to detect the mass and mobility of molecules. For more advanced machines, detecting a new explosive can be as simple as upgrading the software. First, the new target is characterised, then an algorithm (a series of rules programmed into a computer) is devised to detect it in scanned samples. …
Virus Bulletin VB100 award received by Sunbelt Software after 100% detection of in the wild viruses on the Windows 7 platform.
Facebook is testing the face detection and photo-tagging technology it acquired with Divvyshot. When users upload photos, faces are already selected as if they were being targeted by a digital camera, simplifying the process. New browsing and uploading utilities are also planned for Facebook Photos. – Facebook is applying the face detection and photo-tagging technology it
adapted from its purchase of startup Divvyshot to its social network.
Facebook Photos Product Manager Sam Odio, founder of Divvyshot, said July 1
some Facebook users will see a box inviting them to quot;Tag a Friend. quot;
…
Face detection software allows you to automatically detect the human face in almost any picture, allowing you to crop the face in the required proportions and export it into another file.
In what Health Discovery says is a first-ever breakthrough, it nears completion of a mobile app that would allow a person to take an image of a mole, lesion or birthmark and receive immediate feedback for a risk assessment for melanoma.
– A mobile phone app allowing individuals to take a picture of a mole, lesion
or birthmark on their bodies; send the image to Health Discovery; and
immediately receive back on their mobile phone a risk assessment for melanoma
and other skin cancers is nearing completion.
This first-ever melanoma…
Combining advanced analytics technology developed by the Mayo Clinic and IBM’s WebSphere Process Server to model and orchestrate the automated workflow, aneurysm detection is dramatically improving.
– Using Mayo Clinic analytics technology with collaboration from IBM’s Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center has
proven a 95 percent accuracy rate in detecting aneurysms, compared with
70 percent for manual interpretation. The project has examined more than
15 million images from thousands …
Stratech Systems has been awarded a $1.16 million contract by the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) of Singapore to design, implement and maintain the next-generation Shipmast Height Detection System (SHDS).
It has only been a few weeks that Pentax had thrown W80 Compact into the markets and now the photography giant has announced the WS80.
The difference between the two models is that the new one has a more colorful body, lesser features and a lower price.
The waterproof feature in this camera is useful as it [...]
Early detection and quick treatment can save nearly 87pct of people affected from anthrax, finds a new study.
The researchers suggest that any delay beyond three days would overwhelm hospitals with critically ill people.
“No matter how well-organized and prolonged a treatment program is, it must be quickly implemented. In fact, our analysis shows that time-to-treatment is [...]
