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24 Million Home Routers and ISPs Open to DNS DDoS Amplification Attacks

2nd April, 2014 (1 Comment)

A new report from Nominum, which provides ISPs with DNS based analytics and monetization solutions, has claimed that 24 million home broadband routers, including many in the UK, could be exposing ISPs and their users to becoming unwitting participants in massive Internet DNS-based Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

UK ISP TalkTalk Slows Access to Imgur.com Website After IWF Block

2nd April, 2014 (4 Comments)

Customers of budget broadband provider TalkTalk recently found their access to the hugely popular image sharing website – imgur.com – to be slow or virtually unusable due to the ISPs implementation of the Internet Watch Foundation’s (IWF) voluntary child abuse block list.

Big UK ISPs Set to Censor Access to All Internet Content Depicting Adults

1st April, 2014 (7 Comments)

Broadband ISPs in the United Kingdom have unanimously agreed to support a new Government initiative that aims to make the Internet friendlier to those under the age of 5, and Justin Bieber, by removing or changing any and all content depicting or involving adults (aka – “adult content“).

ATVOD Demand Mandatory UK Internet Age Checks for Adult Websites

28th March, 2014 (2 Comments)

The Authority for Television On Demand has called on the Government to reinforce in law the requirement for UK operators of adult websites, specifically those that peddle pornography, to put workable Age Verification in front of R18 content or risk having their funding sources blocked. Now they just need to figure out the “how“.

UK Online Safety Report Finds ISP Website Blocks Unsuitable for Tackling Porn

19th March, 2014 (5 Comments)

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee, which examines the expenditure, administration and policy of the Government’s related department, has published its latest (6th) Online Safety report and found that website blocking by UK ISPs was “highly unlikely to be a suitable approach” for tackling adult pornography or violent material on the Internet.

UPDATE Political Censorship Fear as UK ISPs Blocked from Ukraine News Site

18th March, 2014 (6 Comments)

The growing crisis on Europe’s border between Ukraine and Russia, which centres on a dispute over ownership of the Crimea territory, took an unusual twist yesterday after it was spotted that Sky Broadband and other UK ISPs appeared to be restricting access to Ukrainian news site Tsn.ua. Oddly Sky claims it was blocked for being on a “white list” of websites (note to Sky: normally you unblock those).

UPDATE3 UK ISP Internet Filtering Blocks Hit WordPress.com Users

17th March, 2014 (2 Comments)

UK members of the hugely popular WordPress.com website, which allows users to setup their own blogs using WP’s Content Management System (CMS), have been reporting a variety of access a usability problems with the service since the beginning of last week. A big finger of blame is now being pointed at TalkTalk’s Internet filtering.

Google Public DNS Internet Traffic Hijacked and Redirected to BT Latin America

17th March, 2014 (0 Comments)

Internet users that have chosen to replace their broadband ISPs own Domain Name Servers (DNS) with Google’s free Public DNS alternative, which translates IP addresses into human readable form and vice versa, had a bit of a shock over the weekend when their traffic was redirected (hijacked) and sent to BT’s Latin America division in Venezuela and Brazil.

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.