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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.

UK ISP Eclipse Internet Fails to Hide User Password via Account Page

21st January, 2014 (0 Comments)

Internet providers take note; a wide gaze is being cast across your security measures. The latest ISP to feel the heat is KC’s sibling Eclipse Internet, which makes no attempt to hide their customer’s user password when they login to check the broadband providers online account pages.

UPD PC League of Legends Gamers Blame UK ISP Porn Filter for Update Block

20th January, 2014 (0 Comments)

A group of PC gamers that play the popular online multiplayer game League of Legends have warned that the security settings on some broadband routers and the new generation of ISP-side network-level Internet filters, which are designed to block online adult content, could be blocking updates for the game.

UPDATE EE UK Rush to Fix Security Flaw in BrightBox Broadband Routers

18th January, 2014 (0 Comments)

The past few months seem to have been loaded with reports of serious security flaws in many home broadband ISP routers. Now EE’s BrightBox 1 kit has become the latest to hit troubled times after a web security specialist, Scott Helme, revealed just how easy it is to hack.

KC Fibre Engineer in Hull UK Exposes Unencrypted User Passwords

17th January, 2014 (2 Comments)

At least one of KC’s fibre optic broadband engineers in Hull (East Yorkshire, England) could be in hot water after demonstrating a worrying lack of personal data security by effectively exposing the ISPs unencrypted user passwords (and other personal data) during an on-site service installation visit.

TalkTalk Become First Big UK ISP to Offer FREE Privacy Calling Features

16th January, 2014 (9 Comments)

Budget broadband provider TalkTalk today claims to have become “the first and only ISP” to make all of its fixed phone line privacy calling features, such as Last Caller Barring and Anonymous Caller Reject, completely free.

One in Five Children Aged 12-15 Can Disable UK Internet Filters or Controls

15th January, 2014 (5 Comments)

Ofcom has today published a new report for the Government that benchmarks the take-up, awareness and confidence of parents and children in relation to the use of online Parental Controls, such as the network-level Internet filters now being adopted by all of the major broadband ISPs. The results make for an interesting read.

Liberal Democrat President Seeks to Halt UK ISP Internet Filtering

14th January, 2014 (2 Comments)

The national President of the UK Liberal Democrat’s, Tim Farron, has drafted a new motion for the party’s Spring Conference that will call upon their coalition partners in Government to protect the “digital rights of the citizen” and halt requirements for “misconceived, ineffective and illiberal” Internet censorship of “adult” websites.