Home » UK ISP News Archive » Article Tag: Security (761 Posts)

Articles for Category Tag - Security

UPD Security Concerns with BT’s UK Email Service Trigger ICO Investigation

13th March, 2014 (3 Comments)

The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office is investigating a potentially serious data security blunder with BT Mail, which is an Internet email service delivered by Openwave Messaging (formerly Critical Path), after a whistle-blower warned that the service “exposed user credentials en masse“.

Virgin Media UK SuperHub Leaks User Passwords via WiFi During Reboot

11th March, 2014 (7 Comments)

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.

Is it the ISPs Fault if Your Home Broadband Router Gets Hacked?

11th March, 2014 (21 Comments)

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?

UPDATE EU Law Enforcement Agency Warns FREE Public WiFi is Open to Abuse

7th March, 2014 (5 Comments)

The boss of Europol‘s cybercrime division, Troels Oerting, has warned that they are seeing an “increase in the misuse” of free public wireless Internet networks (WiFi hotspots). In particular hackers have been known to target them as a means of stealing personal and financial information.

Hull ISP KC Suffers Second Privacy Fail After Sharing Customer Emails

5th March, 2014 (1 Comment)

The incumbent phone and broadband ISP for Hull in East Yorkshire, KC, has suffered yet another security snafu after they accidentally sent letters to customers that included the email addresses for other subscribers. Sadly it’s not their first security blunder.

UPD Hackers Hijack 300K Home and Office Broadband Routers from Big Brands

4th March, 2014 (2 Comments)

Researchers working for Team Cymru’s Threat Intelligence Group have discovered that over 300,000 consumer-grade small office / home (SOHO) broadband routers, including those from brands like ZyXEL, D-Link, Micronet, Tenda, TP-Link and others, have been hijacked as part of a man-in-the-middle style attack.

Labour Party Moot 3rd Attempt to Revive UK Internet Snooping Law

3rd March, 2014 (6 Comments)

The British Labour Party looks set to take a 3rd swipe at reviving their failed Internet Snooping laws, which over the past 6 years have twice been rejected due to issues of unpopularity, cost, technical viability and general confusion.

Virgin Media UK Launch FREE Web Safe Network Level Filtering Service

28th February, 2014 (9 Comments)

Virgin Media has today become the last of the big broadband ISPs to launch free Parental Controls (Web Safe), which support the Government demanded network-level filtering technology to help censor “potentially age-inappropriate websites“. Virgin’s site is also being updated to reflect their new headline speeds of up to 152Mbps.

UK ISP TalkTalk Reports Rapid Uptake of FREE Privacy Calling Features

26th February, 2014 (3 Comments)

Budget broadband and calls provider TalkTalk reports that its recent move to become “the first and only ISP” to make all of their fixed phone line privacy calling features (e.g. Last Caller Barring and Anonymous Caller Reject) completely free has boosted the number of customers using the service almost four-fold.

UPDATE North Yorkshire Police Investigate Wireless Broadband ISP Kit Theft

13th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

The North Yorkshire Police (England) have launched an investigation after a wireless broadband server, which helped to provide Internet access to the local area, was stolen from a mast located close to Newton-upon-Rawcliffe on Sunday 9th February 2014.

UPDATE Mass Exploit Hits Linksys E1000 and E1200 Wireless Routers

13th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

Consumers that own one of Linksys’s E1000 or E1200 Wireless-N routers (possibly other models too) should take note that the devices appear to be vulnerable to a mass exploit that compromises the router and then forces it to saturate all of the available bandwidth by scanning port 80 and 8080 as fast as possible.

UPD EE UK Deploy Partial Fix for BrightBox Broadband Router Security Woes

7th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

The fixed line broadband ISP division of mobile giant EE has begun to deploy a crucial firmware update to plug the many holes in its older BrightBox 1 routers. Unfortunately some of the vulnerabilities have yet to be fixed.

Innocent Home Owners Suffer Due to Crimes Committed on their Open WiFi

3rd February, 2014 (5 Comments)

The Scottish Government’s “Cyber Integrator” (cybercrime tzar), Keith McDevitt, has warned home owners to close their open wifi networks (wireless) after finding that an increasing number of cyber criminals, such as Internet paedophiles, were using them to commit offences that ISPs often trace back to innocent broadband users.

UPDATE MP Claire Perry Claims UK ISP Internet Filters Will Not Overblock

29th January, 2014 (15 Comments)

One of the UK Government’s strongest advocates of mandatory network-level Internet filtering, MP Claire Perry, has told a Westminster eForum that modern ISP censorship systems are “far better, far stronger, much more effective and will not overblock” websites (i.e. wrongful blocking). Even though they do.. quite a lot.

UPDATE2 UK ISP Sky Broadband Shield Blocking Critical jQuery Website

27th January, 2014 (1 Comment)

Customers whom enable Sky Broadband’s Shield (Parental Controls) service, particularly if they select the blocking option for “malicious or phishing websites“, will also find that the often essential jQuery (http://code.jquery.com) JavaScript CDN site also ends up being restricted (this is used by many websites).

UPDATE PlusNet to Replace McAfee Security with Network Level Filtering

22nd January, 2014 (7 Comments)

It’s arguably the least surprising development of the year. Broadband ISP PlusNet has confirmed that it intends to follow BT’s example (parent company) and launch their own network-level Internet filter to block (censorship) adult and piracy websites, which will most likely replace its bundled McAfee security solution.

UPDATE ISP PlusNet Criticised for Using Unsecure Broadband Signup Form

22nd January, 2014 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP PlusNet, which is owned by BT, has become the latest Internet provider to face criticism today for lax security after it was revealed that their registration form for new customers doesn’t sit behind a secure web (HTTPS) connection and is instead transmitted without encryption.