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Openreach Pick Garret Kavanagh to Lead UK Complex Engineering Unit
2+ hour, 47+ min ago (234+ words) Network access provider Openreach (BT), which is currently busy investing "15bn to deploy Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology to 25 million UK premises by the end of 2026 (currently 21m premises passed), has today announced that they've promoted Garret Kavanagh to be their new Managing…...
New Cyber Security and Resilience Bill Introduced to UK Parliament
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (682+ words) The UK government will today introduce their new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (CSRB) to parliament, which aims to toughen existing defences against cyberattacks " particularly those that impact the health, energy, water and transport networks " and imposes new requirements on…...
Survey Claims Half of UK Broadband Users Leave Routers Open to Cyberattack
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1543+ words) A new survey of 3,242 UK internet users, which was conducted on behalf of Broadband Genie and supported by McAfee's cybersecurity researchers (inc. threat intelligence data), has claimed that millions of people could be leaving their home networks open to hackers…...
CWP Domain Goes Down and Disrupts Some UK Broadband ISP Switching UPDATE
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (411+ words) The Common Wholesale Platform (CWP), which is a non-profit member-owned organisation that helps alternative broadband networks to connect with the retail ISP market, appears to be suffering some sort of disruption today after their main website domain went down (CWPUK....
Virgin Media O2 UK Claims 1.8 Million over-65s Have Fallen for Online Scams
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (630+ words) Broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 has this morning published new research, which claims to reveal that more than 1.8 million people over the age of 65 have been scammed online in the past year, with the average victim losing "831. In…...
British Telecoms Provider Colt Updates After Major Cyber Attack and Data Breach
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (529+ words) Business communications and internet provider Colt Technology Services (COLT) has provided an update after hackers breached their business support systems late last week, which resulted in the provider choosing to proactively take some systems offline. Work to restore the service…...
WhoFi - Researchers Find Way to Identify and Track People via WiFi Signals
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (325+ words) Over the years we've seen various different uses for wireless WiFi signals being developed, such as the ability to see through walls (here) or to act as a motion sensing alarm system (here). Now a team of Italian researchers have…...
Check Now - 18 Trusted Web Browser Extensions Discovered Stealing Your Data
6+ mon, 5+ day ago (455+ words) By Mark Jackson Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads....
Gov Sets Out More Details of New UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (566+ words) By Mark Jackson Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads....
Comms Council UK and NTS to Help Crackdown on Telephone Fraud
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (350+ words) By Mark Jackson Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads....