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Mobile Giant EE Moots Risky Network-Level Website Ad Blocking

25th November, 2015 (1 Comment)

Mobile operator EE has threatened to become one of the first Internet access providers to introduce a controversial network-level blocking system against website adverts, which has sparked a debate about the quality of advertising and raised questions over how far ISPs should intrude online.

South Wales Police Arrest TalkTalk’s Suspected Ransom Demander

25th November, 2015 (2 Comments)

Police in South Wales have arrested a fifth person in connection with last month’s cyber-attack on TalkTalk’s website (here) and interestingly the individual concerned was taken into custody on suspicion of blackmail.

UK Court Defers DRIPA Internet Snooping Appeal to CJEU

20th November, 2015 (3 Comments)

The Government’s appeal to overturn an earlier ruling against their Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIP), which found the legislation to be unlawful, has today been given a boost after the decision was formally passed on to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

UK Broadband Provider AAISP Suffers Strong DDoS Assault

19th November, 2015 (1 Comment)

Internet provider Andrews and Arnold (AAISP) appears to have become the target for a semi-sporadic Distributed Denial of Service assault (DNS reflection), which began hitting their network yesterday and has caused some of their customers to lose connection.

Broadband ISPs Warn UK Internet Snooping Law to Push Up Prices

11th November, 2015 (0 Comments)

The Government has budgeted around £175 million+ over 10 years to cover the cost of storing everyone’s Internet records as part of their controversial new Investigatory Powers Bill (details), but MPs have been warned by ISPs that this might not even come close to covering the actual costs.

Apple CEO Fires Encryption Warning Shots at UK Internet Snooping Bill

10th November, 2015 (4 Comments)

The UK Government’s new Investigatory Powers Bill, which aims to expand the United Kingdom’s Internet snooping laws by forcing broadband ISPs to log a bigger slice of everybody’s online activity, has taken fire from Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, over its “very dire” move to damage encryption.

UK ISP TalkTalk Now Says Only 156,959 Customers Affected by Hack

6th November, 2015 (4 Comments)

At the end of last week TalkTalk informed their broadband and phone customers that “less than” 1.2 million customer email addresses, names and phone numbers had been compromised by the cyber-attack on their website (here), but today this has been sharply revised down to the figure of 156,959.

UK Gov Publish New ISP Internet Snooping Investigatory Powers Bill

4th November, 2015 (10 Comments)

The Home Office has published the first draft of its new Investigatory Powers Bill, which marks the third attempt to expand the United Kingdom’s Internet snooping laws by forcing ISPs into logging a bigger slice of everybody’s online activity; irrespective of whether or not you’ve committed a crime.

UPDATE Government Inquiry as Fourth Person Arrested for TalkTalk Hack

4th November, 2015 (0 Comments)

British police have arrested a fourth person, a 16 year old boy from Norwich, in connection with the recent cyber-attack on TalkTalk’s website (here), which resulted in the personal details of 1.2 million broadband ISP customers being stolen by Internet criminals.

UPDATE Government Creates Confusion Over New Internet Snooping Bill

2nd November, 2015 (11 Comments)

Later this week the Government will finally publish their third attempt to enhance the Internet snooping capabilities of our country’s security services, but there’s growing confusion between the mass media and politicians over what will actually be announced.

Vodafone Joins TalkTalk to Suffer Security Breach of 1,827 Accounts

1st November, 2015 (0 Comments)

Vodafone has said that their security is “fundamentally effective” after they became the latest major UK telecoms operator after TalkTalk to be hit by a breach, which between 28th and 29th October 2015 resulted in 1,827 customers having their accounts accessed by cyber criminals.

UK ISP TalkTalk Reveals Precisely How Much Data Was Stolen in Hack

30th October, 2015 (9 Comments)

Internet provider TalkTalk has today confirmed exactly how much data was compromised in last week’s website hack and the good-ish news is that less than 21,000 unique bank account details were stolen, although 1.2 million customer email addresses, names and phone numbers weren’t so lucky.

Government Moots Law Change to Keep UK ISP Internet Porn Filters

28th October, 2015 (0 Comments)

The Government has confirmed that they’re considering the introduction of a “domestic law” that could prevent Europe’s new Net Neutrality rules from overriding their policy of requiring all of the United Kingdom’s major broadband ISPs to block adult Internet content.

UPDATE8 TalkTalk’s Reputation Hit After Hackers Steal Personal Data

23rd October, 2015 (31 Comments)

Once, twice, but three times? Broadband ISP TalkTalk have admitted that their on-going website problems are the result of a “sustained cyberattack” that appears to have been launched in an attempt to steal yet more of their customers private personal and financial data.

WiFi Kettles in London Found Leaking Home Network Passwords

19th October, 2015 (7 Comments)

Do you own one of those swanky, if not entirely necessary, Kettles with built-in WiFi (e.g. iKettle)? The chances are that you don’t, but if you did then you’d need to be careful because ethical hackers in London are showing just how easy it is to steal your home network key (PSK).

BBC iPlayer TV Service Starts to Block UK VPN Services

16th October, 2015 (26 Comments)

In an effort to clampdown on Internet piracy the BBC has decided to block users of UK Virtual Private Networks (VPN) from being able to view their online iPlayer video streaming content, which has also restricted access for many legitimate users.

Marketers Complain of Emails Being Blocked as SPAM by UK ISPs

14th October, 2015 (4 Comments)

A new study by Return Path has decried the otherwise welcome fact that commercial marketers are finding it harder and harder to push their annoying emails into your inbox. For example, 82% of commercial emails reached their intended UK recipients this year, which is down from 87% in 2014.