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UK Government Admits Internet Porn Ban Flawed – Continues Anyway

5th January, 2018 (15 Comments)

The Government’s Digital Minister, Matt Hancock, has quietly signed-off on a controversial impact assessment for the new Age Verification system, which underpins their plan to force all UK broadband ISPs into blocking websites that contain pornographic content (unless they use age verification).

UK ISP TalkTalk Blocks Popular Internet VPN Tool TeamViewer AGAIN

20th December, 2017 (14 Comments)

Broadband ISP TalkTalk is facing criticism after they once again blocked UK customers from being able to access the TeamViewer service from their network, which apparently stems from a fear that it is being used by scammers to target their subscribers.

Report Warns UK Undersea Fibre Optic Data Links Vulnerable to Attack

4th December, 2017 (7 Comments)

Breaks in the high capacity fibre optic data cables that link countries around the world together and on the internet, many of which sit on the seabed, are not uncommon. Now a new report has warned that other countries and terrorists could potentially cripple the UK by attacking those.

Government Consults on Changes to Soften UK Internet Snooping Law

30th November, 2017 (11 Comments)

The Home Office has launched a consultation that proposes to make a number amendments to their controversial internet snooping Investigatory Powers Act 2016, which at the end of last year ran into trouble after the CJEU found that some aspects were not compatible with EU law.

Ofcom Reveals UK Attitudes Toward Network Level Filtering by ISPs

29th November, 2017 (5 Comments)

Ofcom has published their latest report into the use of media by UK children and parents, which among other things finds that around two in five parents of children aged 3-4 (39%) or 5-15 (37%) use network-level filters on their home broadband ISP. The vast majority of those find them useful.

Quad9 – UK Internet Users Now Have a More Secure DNS Provider Option

20th November, 2017 (10 Comments)

Most of you reading this are probably allowing your broadband ISP to manage the Domain Name Service (DNS), which translates IP addresses back and forth into human readable form (e.g. domain names like ISPreview.co.uk), but now there’s a new choice in the form of Quad9.

Europol Calls on Internet Providers to End CGNAT IP Address Sharing

17th October, 2017 (14 Comments)

Europol, which helps the 28 member states of the EU (inc. UK) to fight serious international crime and terrorism, has called on broadband and mobile providers to end the use of Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) in order to “increase accountability online” and stop people “sharing the same IP address as a criminal.“

KRACK Attack – Internet Panics Over Big Wi-Fi Flaws in WPA2 Security

16th October, 2017 (6 Comments)

Security researchers have revealed bad news for WiFi wireless networks everywhere. Several key management vulnerabilities in the 4-way handshake of the WPA2 security protocol, which helps to keep modern Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) secure via encryption, have been found.

UK ISP Filters Criticised for Blocking Lots of Safe and Legal Websites

13th October, 2017 (16 Comments)

The Open Rights Group‏ (ORG) has this week helped to highlight how some of the UK’s biggest broadband ISPs are continuing to allow their Parental Control filters to block masses of innocent websites, often for seemingly bogus reasons (e.g. blocking a small gardening business for “pornography“).

UK Gov Softens Stance on Mandatory ISP Filters for Adult Internet Content

11th October, 2017 (1 Comment)

The Government has today published their Internet Safety Strategy green paper, which sets out how they intend to tackle online dangers like cyber-bullying, trolling and under-age access to porn. But it also appears to soften earlier plans for a mandatory approach to network-level ISP internet censorship.

UK ISP TalkTalk Enhance Nuisance Call Blocking with ‘Check and Report’

28th September, 2017 (9 Comments)

Broadband ISP TalkTalk, which already blocks nuisance calls at the network level and recently enabled Caller Display + Last Call Barring for all users at no extra cost, has today launched a new phone security feature called ‘Check and Report‘ that helps customers to identify and stop unwanted calls.

New EU Measures to Tackle “illegal” Internet Content Cause ISPs Concern

28th September, 2017 (11 Comments)

The European Internet Services Providers Association (EuroISPA) has warned that the European Commission’s new plan for tackling “illegal” online content risks forcing internet providers to adopt aggressive filtering and monitoring technologies, which could end up removing legitimate content.

UPDATE Equifax Hack Confusion – Fears for UK Customers of BT and Other ISPs

11th September, 2017 (12 Comments)

Fears are growing that potentially up to 44 million consumers in the United Kingdom, including customers of BT and possibly other broadband providers, could be caught up in the huge personal data breach that hit US credit rating firm Equifax from May – July 2017 (details were only revealed last week!).

Customers of BT Being Targeted by Telephone Scammers from India

6th September, 2017 (25 Comments)

A new report claims that customers of BT’s broadband and phone services are being targeted by fraudsters based in India. The criminals will often call and pretend to act as official customer support agents in order to hijack your PC / steal money, although this crime is by no means unique to BT.

UK ISP TalkTalk Hit by £100,000 Fine for 2014 Personal Data Breach

10th August, 2017 (2 Comments)

Once again the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has today whacked broadband ISP TalkTalk with a £100,000 fine, which comes after several accounts at their outsourced Wipro call centre in India were used to access the personal data of 21,000 customers.

The Trouble with the UK’s New “Right to be Forgotten” Internet Law

7th August, 2017 (8 Comments)

The Government has today set out details of their new Data Protection Bill, which aims to give individuals more control over their data online by introducing a new “right to be forgotten” (i.e. asking for your personal data to be deleted) and enabling emails or files to be moved when switching ISP.

TalkTalk Upgrade to Protect UK Customers from Nuisance and Scam Calls

20th July, 2017 (0 Comments)

Low cost ISP TalkTalk, which already blocks nuisance calls at a network level (last month they blocked more than 100 million scam calls), has today announced improvements that will introduce further protection for customers and at no extra cost.