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Ofcom UK probe Vonage and Voxbone after scammers misuse phone numbers

24th September, 2026 (7 Comments)

The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has today opened two separate investigations into cloud and VoIP phone providers Vonage (Vonage Business Limited) and Voxbone SA – here and here, which centres on a concern that telephone numbers held by the companies are being “misused, including to perpetrate scams“.

New study benchmarks Malware blocking by free third-party DNS providers

23rd September, 2026 (14 Comments)

A new study has been published that attempts to benchmark the effectiveness of several popular and free third-party Domain Name Service (DNS) providers to see how effective they are at blocking 100 malware and phishing websites (whittled down from an original list of 41,000 to reduce the risk from false positives). The results make for an interesting read.

Alternative UK home broadband network Trooli launches 5Gbps speeds

22nd September, 2026 (22 Comments)

Alternative network operator and broadband ISP Trooli, which has so far deployed their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 480,000 premises across parts of England and some of Scotland, has today announced a major speed boost with the launch of a new 5Gbps (5,000Mbps) symmetric speed package for consumers. The package is being supported by a new Wi-Fi 7 router.

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Survey claims 32 percent of UK people can’t identify if a Wi-Fi network is secure

21st September, 2026 (5 Comments)

A new “nationally representative” survey of 3,000 UK adults, which was conducted by Censuswide during July 2026, has reported that 32% of respondents were not confident they could identify a secure public Wi-Fi network from a fake (spoofed) one. On the flip side, 73% of men did feel confident identifying secure Wi-Fi, compared with 64% of women.

Email users of broadband ISP BT suffer barrage of password reset messages UPDATE

16th September, 2026 (7 Comments)

Some customers of BT’s UK broadband packages, specifically those that also make use of their included Email platform, have recently begun complaining about receiving hundreds of unsolicited password reset messages (sometimes as many as 1,000 TXTs) – each containing a onetime four digit PIN code to verify their BTInternet mail account.

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Comms Council UK publish data-sharing guidance for tackling telephone fraud

16th September, 2026 (1 Comment)

The Comms Council UK, which represents the national Unified Communications and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) phone industry, has this morning published its data-sharing guidance – produced with support from the Home Office, Ofcom, and Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) – for tackling telephone-enabled fraud (e.g. scam calls and messages).

Lancashire Man Sent to Prison for Operating Rogue UK Cell Phone Tower

3rd September, 2026 (10 Comments)

The City of London Police (CLP) have revealed that Mohammed Faiyaz Iqbal (43) of Preston in Lancashire has been sentenced to more than 3 years and 8 months in prison for setting up a rogue cell phone tower, which was then used to bypass mobile network security protocols in order to send masses of fraudulent texts (aka – SMS Blaster).

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Vandals Attack Openreach’s Broadband Network in Bedminster and Chippenham

26th August, 2026 (9 Comments)

National network operator Openreach has revealed that their UK broadband and phone network suffered “malicious damage” across two separate incidents in Bedminster (District of Bristol) and Chippenham (Wiltshire) on Monday. This disrupted connectivity to local homes and businesses in the area.

Tesco Mobile Launch Safe Start Plans to Help UK Parents Setup Phones for Kids

20th August, 2026 (1 Comment)

Mobile provider Tesco Mobile, which is one of the UK’s largest virtual (mvno) mobile network operators (uses O2) and home to a customer base of c.6 million, has launched a new Safe Start plan to help parents feel more confident their child’s phone is safe, set up correctly and ready for day one.

Government Issues UK Mobile Emergency Alert Over Wildfire Risk

14th August, 2026 (49 Comments)

The UK government may have surprised a few people just after 7pm tonight after using the Emergency Alerts service via mobile network operators to send out a national warning about the “very high risk of wildfires nationally“, which advises people across the country to avoid undertaking any activity that could start a fire.

Giant Broadband Launch Free UK Network-Level Internet Security Service

7th August, 2026 (0 Comments)

Liverpool-based UK ISP Giant has introduced a new network-level internet content filtering and security service called ‘Guardian‘ for their customers, which is available for free on all of their broadband packages and is designed to “work across every connected device — no downloads or per-device setup required“.

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Ofcom UK Blocked 481,521 Malicious Emails Over the Past 3 Years

7th August, 2026 (1 Comment)

A recent Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed that the UK telecoms, internet content and media regulator, Ofcom, blocked a total of 481,521 “malicious emails” between June 2023 and February 2026 (472,936 phishing and 8,585 malware emails). But this figure excludes SPAM (junk marketing) emails, which are likely to be much higher.

Copper Cable Thieves Knock Out Broadband Near St Neots for a Third Time

7th August, 2026 (4 Comments)

A criminal gang has, for a third time since the start of last year (see here and here), this week disrupted Openreach’s broadband services around part of the Cambridgeshire (England) town of St Neots by stealing 500 metres worth of the UK network operator’s local copper telecoms cables.

NordVPN Launch Free SCAM Checker AI Tool Called NordBot on Messaging Platforms

29th July, 2026 (2 Comments)

The NordVPN service, which is a popular Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider, has today launched NordBot, which is described as being a free “experimental” AI tool that lets people submit suspicious messages, links or images through WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Telegram or X for a quick risk assessment to see if they’re scams or not.

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Ofcom Rejected More Effective Method of Blocking UK Messaging Scams

17th July, 2026 (3 Comments)

Earlier this week Ofcom introduced new measures to help UK mobile operators “block, limit and disrupt scammers” from sending messaging scams (here). The changes, while positive, overlooked the fact that the regulator ended up rejecting an already adopted (in other countries) and UK developed fix that would have been more effective, partly due to BT and others complaining that it would be too “onerous“.

Cifas Joins Global Signal Exchange to Help UK Telecoms Providers Tackle Scams

16th July, 2026 (0 Comments)

The UK’s fraud prevention service, Cifas, which is home to over 775 members including major telecoms providers such as Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), BT, Sky Broadband and more, has joined the Global Signal Exchange (GSE) to “strengthen the global fight against” online scams by collaborating to identify, disrupt, and prevent online scams at scale across borders and sectors.

Virgin Media O2 Publish First Quarterly Scam Index to Track UK Scam Calls and Texts

15th July, 2026 (0 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) have today decided to complement Ofcom’s new anti-scam rules for telecoms providers (here) by publishing their first quarterly Scam Index, which among other things reveals that more than 18.5 million adults in the UK have been targeted by scammers in just three months.