Free tool provides real-time threat information Intenet backbone company, Interoute has launched a free tool aimed at providing up-to-date information on security threats. The Internet Barometer draws on information provided by 22 sensors placed at strategic points on the Interoute backbone network and gives accurate information on the volume of threats on the Internet at any one time. DiskShred offers mobile disk destruction service One company is offering to resolve the perennial problem of how companies can securely dispose of old hard drives containing valuable commercial data, after it setup a mobile disk shredding service that will come to a customer's site and destroy old hard disks. Symantec culls user data to spot unsafe programs Symantec is to use the 'wisdom of the crowds' and introduce reputation-based security in the next version of its Norton Antivirus 2010 product. Iran, disintermediation and cyberwar With some justification, skeptics have questioned whether cyberwar is a realistic scenario for concern or merely a scary story to earn funding for security companies and writers. Unfortunately, there are many cases in which journalists and others have leaped to the conclusion that security breaches are examples of cyberwar; recent examples include the Estonian "cyberwar" of 2007 and the attacks on the Church of Scientology in early 2009. June Giveaways Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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