UK ISP XILO has informed us about a "quite convincing" new telephone scam that is currently doing the rounds and appears to be targeting their broadband customers and potentially also those of other internet providers.

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Broadband ISP TalkTalk UK has issued a new update today that offers more detail on how its controversial future security system, which follows customers around the internet and makes an anonymous record of the website addresses (URLs) they visit, will work. Sadly TalkTalk still does not appear to recognise that URL addresses themselves can also hold private personal data, many of which would not ordinarily be visible to the public or search engines like Google.

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MessageLabs (Symantec Hosted Services), a well known internet security firm, has taken flak after customers of the BT Business broadband ISP service found that they were unable to send emails between Monday and Tuesday because a crucial server IP address had been blacklisted due to SPAM (junk email). A post on BT's Customer Forum by one of the operators moderators has since revealed more information.

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It's impossible to imagine but IMS Research has claimed that by the end of August 2010 the world will be home to 5 BILLION Internet connected devices. This includes personal computers, phones, ebook readers, bank atm machines, smart fridges and iPad's; just a small selection of the devices that go online each day from various locations around the globe.

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Cable giant Virgin Media UK has launched the Malware Defence Campaign that, among other things, will write warning letters to broadband internet access customers whom it believes could have had their computers infected by malicious software (malware - viruses, spyware and trojans etc.).

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A new survey of 2,000 online British adults, conducted by credit rating experts at Experian, has revealed that over half admitted to making their passwords available on the internet. It also found that three of the most frequently used passwords were town of birth (18%), name of your past school (24%) and date of birth(27%); data that most people also tend to publish on public social networking website profiles.

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Broadband ISP TalkTalk UK has kindly responded to a number of the concerns we raised about its forthcoming security service. The controversial system shot into the headlines last month after several of the internet providers customers noticed that their website browsing activity was being monitored ("stalked") without consent.

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Friends Reunited, the social networking site that helps old school friends stay in contact with each other, appears to be winning its war against UK internet providers and their strict anti-SPAM (junk email) filters. At one point ISPs were blocking one in four (27%) of the 30 million emails sent by the site in May 2010 and 5.7% were getting through but still ending up in spam folders.

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