Home » UK ISP News Archive » Article Tag: Security (771 Posts)
Sponsored Links
You are viewing a news and article archive for the Security tag (category), where older items are stored for readers to access and view.
Search ISP News
Search ISP Listings
Search ISP Reviews
 

Articles for Category Tag - Security

 
R100-Subsea-cable-work

15th October, 2025 (1 Comment)

A scientist from the University of Portsmouth’s School of Mathematics and Physics has successfully bid for £772,372 of funding from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, which will be used to design a surveillance algorithm and maritime training programme to help identify, repair and reduce damage to undersea infrastructure (e.g. energy pipes and fibre optic internet cables).

13th October, 2025 (14 Comments)

The saying goes that criminals will steal anything that isn’t bolted down, but the opposite now seems to be true in Nottinghamshire (England), where a spate of recent metal thefts has seen criminals making off with the steel covers from several of Virgin Media’s (O2) broadband and phone street cabinets.

copper_broadband_telecoms_cable

9th October, 2025 (3 Comments)

Broadband internet connectivity across part of the County Durham (England) village of Shotton Colliery was left disconnected for five days earlier this week after Openreach’s local network was targeted by copper cable thieves. The activity also caused damage to some local fibre optic cables.

Advertisement

ICUK-Network-Chart

8th October, 2025 (6 Comments)

Network operator ICUK, which provides wholesale connectivity and broadband solutions to ISPs and businesses, appears to be in the process of trying to fully recover all of its services after suffering an ongoing cyber-attack that has disrupted some of their systems.

Scam Alert UK Finger on Computer Keyboard Warning

7th October, 2025 (7 Comments)

Broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 has this morning published new research, which claims to reveal that more than 1.8 million people over the age of 65 have been scammed online in the past year, with the average victim losing £831. In response, they’re launching a free Scam Schools programme with sessions “across the UK” to help Brits get safer online.

Cable-cut-in-Durham-UK-Picture-by-Netomnia-CEO-on-X-021025

2nd October, 2025 (13 Comments)

A number of homes, businesses and several network operators, including Netomnia (Youfibre, Brsk) and Openreach (BT), were impacted yesterday outside the City of Durham after vandals gained access to a chamber and cut vital fibre optic cables; disrupting local broadband connectivity for a protracted period.

Advertisement

Internet Danger Websites with Scam Ads and Malware

25th September, 2025 (4 Comments)

The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has warned consumers that fraudsters are attempting to impersonate them. In short, some people have received calls from scammers, which claim that services (e.g. broadband, phone etc.) have been fraudulently taken out in their name, when this is not the case.

fibre optic cables on pcb circuit board 123rf

25th September, 2025 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which has deployed various open access full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across parts of the United Kingdom, has today announced the launch of its new Cisco-powered ‘ITS SecureEdge’ product. The new value-added service is designed to “protect businesses of all sizes” from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

Home Phone and UK Broadband VoIP Services

25th September, 2025 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today hit internet phone (VoIP) provider Vonage with a £700,000 fine after an investigation that started in March 2024 (here). The penalty follows an incident that resulted in disruption for its business customers to emergency calling (999) services between 23rd October and 3rd November 2023.

Advertisement

R100-Subsea-cable-work

19th September, 2025 (0 Comments)

The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) has today published the results of their cross-party inquiry into the growing threats facing the country’s undersea fibre optic data cables. The report finds that the UK has “plenty of cable routes and good repair processes” for routine breakages, but the UK can’t protect all of it from adversaries and must improve.

16th September, 2025 (2 Comments)

The recent nationwide mobile test of the UK’s new Emergency Alerts service has, perhaps inevitably, been followed by a new wave of email phishing scams and spams over the past week. This attempts to impersonate the government by claiming to seek feedback from recipients on whether or not they received the alert.

Emergency Alerts UK Gov Test Image from Vodafone UK PR 010925

6th September, 2025 (10 Comments)

Just a reminder that the UK government will conduct another major nationwide test of the Emergency Alerts service at 3pm tomorrow (Sunday 7th September 2025), which will be sent out via mobile networks to supporting handsets. This is otherwise normally only intended to be used if there’s a “danger to life nearby” (severe flooding, fires and extreme weather etc.).

Advertisement

Scam Alert UK Finger on Computer Keyboard Warning

4th September, 2025 (2 Comments)

Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that they’ve blocked more than 600 million scam text messages from reaching their customers phones so far in 2025 (more than double the number in 2023 and 2024 combined). But the operator warns that they’ve seen a “significant rise” in gambling, recruitment and car finance scam texts.

Internet and UK Telecoms Security Picture by 123rf

28th August, 2025 (7 Comments)

The UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has proposed to update their Telecommunications Security Code of Practice (2022). This sets out what sort of specific security measures public telecoms providers (broadband, mobile etc.) must take in order to protect their networks from attack and data breaches.

Encrypted Computer Data by 123rf ID104712693

20th August, 2025 (3 Comments)

Business communications and internet provider Colt Technology Services (COLT) has provided an update after hackers breached their business support systems late last week, which resulted in the provider choosing to proactively take some systems offline. Work to restore the service remains ongoing, but sadly it is now known that a data breach has occurred.

EE Studio In Store

13th August, 2025 (4 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator EE (BT) has today confirmed that their new mobile plans for children under the age of 18 – called “Safer SIMs” – are now available to take, after being soft launched a few weeks ago (here). The plans form part of the operator’s commitment toward “being the UK’s best network for families“.

Internet and UK Telecoms Security Picture by 123rf

13th August, 2025 (10 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have taken a break from telecoms service provision in order to highlight the ease to which cyber criminals can break into your online accounts. In order to do this they enlisted the help of an ethical hacker to conduct a security assessment on a group of volunteers. Needless to say, account passwords were broken within 3 minutes.

 Cheapest Big ISPs for 100Mbps+
Community Fibre UK ISP Logo
100Mbps (100Mbps up)
Vodafone UK ISP Logo
Vodafone £22.00
150Mbps (27 - 150Mbps up)
Virgin Media UK ISP Logo
Virgin Media £23.99
264Mbps (25Mbps up)
Plusnet UK ISP Logo
Plusnet £24.99
145Mbps (30Mbps up)
Promotion
Cheapest ISPs for 100Mbps+
Gigaclear UK ISP Logo
Gigaclear £17.00
300Mbps
Gift: None
Community Fibre UK ISP Logo
100Mbps
Gift: None
toob UK ISP Logo
toob £19.50
150Mbps
Gift: None
Vodafone UK ISP Logo
Vodafone £22.00
150Mbps
Gift: None
Beebu UK ISP Logo
Beebu £23.00
100 - 160Mbps
Gift: None
Large Availability | View All
Promotion
Cheap Unlimited Mobile SIMs
iD Mobile UK ISP Logo
iD Mobile £16.00
Contract: 24 Months
Data: Unlimited
Talkmobile UK ISP Logo
Talkmobile £16.95
Contract: 1 Month
Data: Unlimited
ASDA Mobile UK ISP Logo
ASDA Mobile £19.00
Contract: 24 Months
Data: Unlimited
Smarty UK ISP Logo
Smarty £20.00
Contract: 1 Month
Data: Unlimited
O2 UK ISP Logo
O2 £21.24
Contract: 24 Months
Data: Unlimited
Sponsored

Copyright © 1999 to Present - ISPreview.co.uk - All Rights Reserved - Terms , Privacy and Cookie Policy , Links , Website Rules , Contact
Mastodon