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UN Warns UK – Internet Encryption and Privacy Must be Protected

29th May, 2015 (7 Comments)

The United Nations special rapporteur for protecting and promoting freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, has published a new report that warns the United Kingdom and other countries against adopting measures into law that would add a backdoor for Internet encryption, which it said risked “weakening everyone’s online security“.

2015 Queen’s Speech Touts Revival of Tough UK Internet Snooping Laws

27th May, 2015 (8 Comments)

The annual Queens Speech (State Opening of Parliament), in which a man with a big black rod bangs on a door and a poor old lady with a heavy head ornament gets to speak unexcitedly about forthcoming Government policy, has unsurprisingly confirmed that stricter UK Internet snooping laws are on the way.. again.

What a Majority Conservative UK Government Means for the Internet

9th May, 2015 (21 Comments)

The political landscape today is radically different from how it began the week, with the Conservatives having successfully won a slim overall majority. But what does that mean for broadband connectivity and Internet access in the United Kingdom? We take a quick, politically neutral, look.

York Becomes First UK City to Receive Friendly WiFi Accreditation

1st May, 2015 (0 Comments)

The City of York in England has become the first in the world to achieve a new “Friendly Wi-Fi” accreditation (not hard to do because it’s only just been created in the UK), which means that their free public wireless Internet hotspots employ strict filtering (censorship) to block “inappropriate material” (porn and child abuse).

Older D-Link and Other Routers Exposed to Realtek WiFi Vulnerability

29th April, 2015 (1 Comment)

An unknown number of broadband routers that make use of the 802.11a/b/g WiFi controllers from Realtek, such as some older models of D-Link and TRENDnet kit, appear to be exposed to a vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on related hardware.

Conservatives Pledge Strict Age Verification for Adult Porn Websites

4th April, 2015 (14 Comments)

The Conservative Party has revived a proposal to introduce strict age verification checks on adult Internet content, particularly pornographic websites, if they win the coming General Election. But making a workable solution won’t be easy.

Best to Avoid Doing IP PBX Style VoIP via BT’s Home Hub Routers

27th March, 2015 (6 Comments)

Customers of BT’s consumer broadband service should avoid using the ISPs Home Hub routers for business style VoIP phone setups because of a seemingly deliberate built-in weakness that, no matter what security settings you choose on the hub, it will always leave port 5060 open.

Some UK TalkTalk D-Link DSL-3680 Routers Vulnerable to DNS Hijack

27th March, 2015 (2 Comments)

Customers of TalkTalk’s home broadband service in the United Kingdom, specifically those who use one of the ISPs older D-Link DSL-3680 routers (check the model code on the back), should be aware that for some people the hardware might be vulnerable to an easily performed remote DNS hijack.

Masses of Broadband Routers Still Vulnerable to Directory Traversal Hack

20th March, 2015 (0 Comments)

One of Cisco Systems better known Penetration Tester’s, Kyle Lovett, has this week warned a UK security conference that more than 700,000 ADSL broadband routers from various different manufacturers and countries are still vulnerable to a Directory Traversal attack that was first uncovered in 2011.

POST Tells UK Government – You Can’t Easily BAN Internet Anonymity

11th March, 2015 (4 Comments)

The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) has published an interesting new note that examines Internet anonymity technologies, such as TOR and the so-called “DarkNet” websites (e.g. SilkRoad), which can be used to support freedom of expression by circumventing censorship and yet also act as a tool that is exploitable by trolls, criminals and terrorists.

UK ISP TalkTalk Admits Illegal Customer Data Breach Fuelled Scam Calls

27th February, 2015 (15 Comments)

Low cost broadband and phone provider TalkTalk could be facing a fine from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after they finally coughed up to a serious customer data breach, which last year caused some of their subscribers to be hit by a spate of Indian-based scam callers.

UK Tribunal Rules GCHQ and NSA Mass Internet Surveillance Sharing Unlawful

6th February, 2015 (6 Comments)

The United Kingdom’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), which is a court that was setup in 2000 to investigate and determine complaints of unlawful use of covert techniques by public authorities, has ruled that the mass Internet surveillance approach used by Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) was unlawful.

UPDATE Lords in 2nd Attempt to Sneak UK Internet Snooping Law into Bill

31st January, 2015 (11 Comments)

The former Metropolitan Police Chief, Lord Blair, with support from Lord Carlisle, Lord King and Lord West, has once again attempted to sneak a controversial new Internet Snooping law into the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill (CTSB) after initially withdrawing it last Monday.

UPDATE D-Link Broadband Routers Vulnerable to DNS Hijack Attack

31st January, 2015 (0 Comments)

A Bulgarian security researcher called Todor Donev has demonstrated a new proof of concept attack against one of D-Link’s ADSL based wireless broadband routers (D-Link DSL-2740R), which allows a hacker to change the routers default Domain Name Server (DNS) details and thus hijack its web traffic. Other routers could also be vulnerable.

UPDATE3 Lords Sneak UK Internet Snooping Law into Bill – Minus Safeguards

23rd January, 2015 (14 Comments)

Opponents of the Government’s plan to revive the twice failed Internet Snooping law, which would force ISPs into logging a much bigger slice of everybody’s online activity and also make it more accessible to security services, are crying foul after dirty politics resulted in 18 pages of new law being snuck into the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill (CTSB) at the last minute.. and without the promised judicial oversight (safeguard).

Sky Broadband Shield Clarifies UK Adult Internet Filtering Policy

20th January, 2015 (2 Comments)

UK ISP Sky Broadband has today confirmed that their network-level filtering (Parental Control) services are now “rolling out” to all of their customers, which in Sky Shield’s case means that existing customers will now be given an option about whether or not to disable the filter and if they don’t make a decision then it will be enabled by default.

YouGov Find UK Support for Tougher State Internet Snooping Law is Split

19th January, 2015 (12 Comments)

A new YouGov survey of 1,647 adults across Great Britain, which was conducted at the end of last week, has indicated that 53% of people support calls for a tougher Internet Snooping law that would log and supply more of your private communications data (e.g. email, website, Skype access logs etc.) to the security services. But happily most oppose the recent calls for a ban on encryption.