Interoute launches a free internet security barometer that provides organisations with daily insight into malicious activity on the internet.

How the barometer works:

• It collects data from 22 high performance sensors built into the core of the European Internet
• It logs the source, destination and type of malicious activity
• This information is then placed into a balanced score-card for attack weighting
• Starting with the de facto standard for vulnerability signatures, Interoute enriches the self calibrating ‘blacklist' with custom DDoS attack detection
• High and medium ranked security alerts are then mapped against the geographic location of the origin and destination of the attacks

customers of the Irish Gas Board highlights a serious security procedure failing, rather than an unfortunate incident, says Cyber- Ark, the digital vaulting specialist.

 The fact that the data on the laptop - one of four stolen from the Bord Gais offices and adjacent buildings earlier this month - was not encrypted is a very serious issue says Mark Fulbrook, Cyber-Ark's UK and Ireland Director.

"That's bad enough, but best practices in IT security mean that the sensitive customer data shouldn't have been stored on a laptop in the first place – it should have been digitally vaulted or at the very least encrypted locally and accessible only on a need-to-use basis," he said.

Farnborough, United Kingdom, 24th June 2009 – Finjan, a leader in secure web gateway products and the provider of a unified web security solution for the enterprise market, has welcomed the launch of Anti-Malvertising.com by Google to assist its advertisers in spotting potential providers of malicious advertisements.

 In total, 45857 unique malicious, advertising, and potentially unwanted programs were detected on users' computers in March 09 alone according to Kaspersky Security Network.

"The launch of the new site by Google is not before time, however, as we originally identified the problem way back in our Q1 2007 Web Trends Security Report," said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, Finjan's chief technology officer.

 22nd June 2009 - Fortify Software, the application vulnerability specialist, says that the Parcelforce data leak - in which Web customers were given access to the entire customer records of seemingly random data relating to other customer's postal consignments - is almost certainly the result of shortcomings at the program code auditing stage.   "From what has been reported by the BBC and others, this sounds like a scripting issue with the site concerned," said Richard Kirk, Fortify's European director.   "What's interesting about the Parcelforce site is the scripts used on the main landing pages appear to have been developed in-house, rather than the firm relying on third-party interfaces. This suggests to me that the site was developed by an in-house programming team using Omniture's SiteCatalyst software," he added.