Type I and Type II Errors - The Heart of Event Processing

Opher Etzion begins to discuss one of the topics I consider to be the heart of event processing in his post, On False Positives and False Negatives.
Statistically speaking, false positives are called Type I errors (? errors) and false negatives are called Type II errors (? errors).
If you are interested in “getting to the heart” [...]

The Top Ten Security Threats for 2008 (Part 13) - Summary

I have now posted eight out of the top ten cybersecurity security threats for 2008, still unordered.    Here is what we have so far:
   — Cyber masquerading to abuse, attack, blackmail, bully, extort, or molest.
   — Password and identity theft from phishing, spyware, malware and theft of hardware.
   — Criminal use of botnets and botnet-like technologies.
   — Cyberbullying, cyberterrorism and other forms of [...]

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