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, ...

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 ...

Sure, airport body scanners are looking for threats, but here’s what else these security devices might reveal in the process Gone are the days when friends and family could walk you to your gate and ...

Google today released a tool to make scanning for vulnerabilities on its cloud platform more effective, an aptly named Google Cloud Security Scanner. Although several security scanners already exist ...

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 ...

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