Scanners were introduced at airports to combat hijacking in the 1970s - Getty Images The conveyor-belt security scanners at airports are always a source of irritation. You were gliding through, ...

A team of computer scientists, including one from Johns Hopkins, has discovered several security vulnerabilities in the full-body X-ray scanners used at U.S. airports between 2009 and 2013. The team ...

Security Scanner 2008 is a program that at first glance looks like a legitimate anti-malware scanner. It scans your computer, alerts you when an infection is found, and prompts you to remove them. In ...

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration, part of the Department of Homeland Security, has spent more than a billion dollars on full-body scanners designed to strengthen airport security. It ...

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Software that analyzes a network to determine its exposure to unwanted intruders. Also called a "vulnerability scanner," such products check client PCs, servers, routers, firewalls, network appliances ...

New security procedures began Wednesday at Albany High School. The district introduced new walk-through and bag scanners.

Google today launched the beta of a new security tool for developers on its App Engine platform-as-a-service offering. The Google Cloud Security Scanner allows developers to regularly scan their ...

Biometric eye scanning holds the potential to offer tighter security than what passwords or fingerprint biometric scanning can provide. As of the time of publication, fingerprint scanning was the ...