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The NetGear-based SuperHub (VMDG485) broadband routers, which are supplied by cable provider Virgin Media, appear to be suffering from a new security flaw that means your administrative settings web page and WiFi passphrase is left exposed for around 7 seconds when the device reboots.
As consumers we have a right to be huffy at our ISPs when something goes wrong. But is the Internet provider still to blame if, as in the recent cases of AAISP and now PlusNet, your home broadband router ends up being hijacked by a DNS redirection exploit?
The latest ISP Speed Index update for Netflix‘s unlimited Internet movie and TV video streaming service has revealed that BT is now at the top of the table with an average speed of 2.85Mbps (Megabits per second), although they’re only very marginally ahead of Virgin Media.
A group of Hollywood movie studios have successfully won a case in London’s High Court that will require all of the country’s major broadband ISPs to block their customers from accessing the following websites – Megashare, Viooz, Watch32 and Zmovie. All were found to be facilitating Internet copyright infringement (piracy).
The state aid supported Superfast Lancashire project in England has confirmed the names of a further 11 communities that will soon gain more access to BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) network by the end of June 2014 (Q2 – 2014 deployment period).