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Study Claims UK Public WiFi Networks Failing Child Safety Standards

5th August, 2025 (18 Comments)

A new study from Guest Metrics, which has a vested interest in selling content filtering solutions, claims to have identified “widespread failures in public WiFi compliance” after it identified that 80% of the venues it tested had no content filtering (no age checks, no splash pages, no logging) to protect children from adult content – a key part of the UK government’s new Online Safety Act (2023).

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UK Government Warns Promoting the Use of VPNs Could Attract Fines UPDATE

31st July, 2025 (0 Comments)

The UK government has warned that online platforms which “deliberately target UK children and promote [Virtual Private Network] use” could now “face enforcement action, including significant financial penalties“. The statement comes after many people – ironically mostly adults – rushed to adopt VPNs to avoid the wide adoption of age verification.

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Ofcom UK to Restrict Number Spoofing to Tackle Mobile Scam Calls from Abroad

21st July, 2025 (15 Comments)

The UK internet content and telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed changes that will require phone providers to withhold the Caller ID (CLI) of calls that appear to come from a UK mobile roaming abroad unless they can verify its validity. The goal is to tackle scam calls by cracking down on number “spoofing“.

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Cloudflare Blocking Access to Internet Piracy Websites in the UK

15th July, 2025 (37 Comments)

At present, it’s already quite well known that the UK’s major home broadband ISPs (BT, Virgin Media, Sky Broadband, EE, Plusnet, TalkTalk etc.) block customers from accessing websites that have been found, via the High Court, to facilitate internet copyright infringement (piracy). But now Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider Cloudflare has started doing the same.

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Check Now – 18 Trusted Web Browser Extensions Discovered Stealing Your Data

10th July, 2025 (9 Comments)

Researchers from Kai Security have identified eighteen extensions (add-ons) for Google’s Chrome and Microsoft’s Edge website browsers, some of which are both well rated and widely installed, that have been stealthily used to hide a Trojan infection that can hijack your browser and steal personal data. Worse is that 2.3 million users have installed one of them.

Ofcom UK Directs Tismi to Block Specific Phone Numbers Due to Serious Misuse

25th June, 2025 (1 Comment)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has issued an update on their investigation into communications provider, Tismi (Tismi BV), which directs the company to “block all calls and messages” sent to or from specific mobile numbers allocated to it by the regulator after they were “linked to serious fraud or misuse“.

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New Data Use and Access Law to Help UK Utility Maps and ISP Comparisons

19th June, 2025 (2 Comments)

The UK government has today announced that their Data Use and Access Bill has become law (Royal Assent), which pledges to inject £10bn into the British economy over 10-years by, among other things, supporting personalised market comparisons for utility pricing and putting a new digital map of underground broadband cables and pipes on a “statutory footing“.

Broadband ISP Carnival Internet UK Integrates Audra Security

12th June, 2025 (3 Comments)

New ISP Carnival Internet UK, which first went live last month (here) and is being backed by global tech company Dotlines (Dotlines UK), has announced that it’s integrating a new suite of hardware and software security products from fellow company Audra Security to “deliver a seamless and secure online experience for households“.

Multiple ASUS Routers Impacted by New Security Vulnerability UPDATED

29th May, 2025 (12 Comments)

Customers of ASUS’ popular WiFi and broadband routers have been advised to ensure that they’re on the latest firmware (software update) after security researchers at GreyNoise published a new vulnerability, which has already allowed attackers to gain “unauthorized, persistent access” to thousands of devices exposed to the public internet.

O2 UK Fixes VoLTE Flaw that Exposed User Mobile Location Data UPDATE

19th May, 2025 (16 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today informed ISPreview that they’ve finally resolved a nasty security issue with their 4G based Voice-over-LTE service (VoLTE or 4G Calling), which effectively made it possible for customers of the operator’s network to have their location tracked by almost anybody with access to their mobile number.

BMW and Viasat Demo “worlds first” Connected Vehicle Over Satellite

18th May, 2025 (0 Comments)

Satellite operator Viasat and German car manufacturer BMW claim to have demonstrated the ability for vehicles to connect over satellite (non-terrestrial networks) for emergency messaging and hazard warnings. This is designed to complement modern terrestrial 4G and 5G mobile network connectivity solutions (many cars already have something akin to the latter).

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Ofcom Confirm Ban of Global Titles to Tackle Abuse of UK Mobile Networks

22nd April, 2025 (3 Comments)

The national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today confirmed that it will ban UK phone operators from leasing Global Titles (GTs) – numbers like +44 (for the United Kingdom) that support mobile services – to third parties. Sadly, such leasing can be misused to try and intercept messages and calls, disrupt the operation of networks and track the location of users of other networks.

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Gov Sets Out More Details of New UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill

2nd April, 2025 (2 Comments)

The UK government has set out the scope and ambition for their new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (CSRB), which aims to respond to increasing attacks from “cyber criminals and state actors” by toughening and expanding the existing rules for broadband, mobile, managed service providers, data centres and even their suppliers.

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Three UK Boosts Scam Protection via New Bitdefender Partnership

24th March, 2025 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has today announced a new partnership with global network security firm Bitdefender, which has resulted in the launch of a new ‘Three Device Security’ service – expressed as being a “powerful new subscription service designed to safeguard customers against fraud, phishing, and malware attacks“.

DrayTek Reveal Multiple New Security Vulnerabilities in their Routers

13th March, 2025 (15 Comments)

Customers of DrayTek‘s popular broadband routers, which are a familiar name in the UK ISP world, have this week been notified about two recently published security vulnerabilities in several of their products – both of which have a Common Vulnerability Score (CVSS) of 9.8 out of 10. But don’t worry, new firmware already exists to patch them.

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Vodafone UK Tests IBM Quantum Safe Tech for Internet Security

3rd March, 2025 (0 Comments)

Customers of Vodafone UK’s mobile and broadband services, specifically those that also use their internet anti-malware ‘Secure Net‘ service (included with their ‘Pro II Broadband’ packages), may in the near future be able to benefit from quantum-safe cryptography after the operator collaborated with IBM on a new Proof of Concept (PoC) test.

TP-Link Opens Largest National UK Distribution Centre in Newbury

11th February, 2025 (15 Comments)

Networking kit manufacturer TP-Link, which produces a lot of affordable broadband routers, WiFi extenders and smart home devices for ISPs and consumers, has this morning announced the opening of its “largest” UK and Ireland National Distribution Centre to date in Newbury.