The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) could be in for a spot of bother this week after a letter issued by the group’s Director of Public Affairs, Richard Mollet, made its way into the public domain. In it Mollet makes a series of spectacular claims, revealing that British spy's even oppose the Digital Economy Bill's (DEB) ISP disconnection policy; to be used against "suspected" illegal copyright file sharers.

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The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has today been ousted as the true source of Amendment 120A (Clause 18). The controversial 120A was rushed into the Digital Economy Bill (DEB) at the last minute, without sufficient debate or consultation, and could lead to mass internet censorship in the UK; websites such as YouTube are potentially at risk of being blocked.

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The UK Internet Services Providers Association ( ISPA ) has said that its members are "bitterly disappointed" after amendment 120A to the Digital Economy Bill was voted through in the House of Lords yesterday. The change could force UK broadband providers into blocking any website deemed to contain "a substantial proportion" of content that infringes copyright (see yesterdays news). That might just as easily apply to YouTube as it would a P2P links site.

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Ah Chuck Norris, perhaps one of the greatest film and TV stars who ever lived [ED: In a parallel universe] and the only person we know who could kill a man at 50 paces with only the hair of his beard (MacGyver could probably beat that), has now been immortalised again by a new virus that attacks broadband ISP DSL routers and modems.

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Paul Mutton, the man responsible for unearthing a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack vulnerability in O2's Wireless Box II and III (Thomson TG585 and TG585n) broadband routers last year (here), recently informed us that the problem had not been correctly resolved.

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It's reported that over 300 Orange UK subscribers have had their personal email addresses exposed after the operator sent a mass customer survey message via the CC field. Obviously they should have used the BCC field, which encrypts addresses, but failed to do that.

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Online security firm Websense has revealed the findings from its latest bi-annual research report, which looked at the state of Internet security for the last half of 2009. It found that 71% of websites with malicious code are legitimate sites that have been compromised and 85.8% of all emails were spam (junk).

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Matt Roburgh, a Security Expert working for broadband ISP TalkTalk UK, has exposed the dangers of weak wireless (Wi-Fi) network security to Channel 4 News (TV). As you'd expect from TalkTalk the interview is focused on how Wi-Fi hacking can lead to network owners being unfairly "suspected" of illegal file sharing (P2P) downloads.

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