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The threats ranged from phishing attacks to websites attempting to download malware onto the customer's computer, to hackers trying to break into their connected home devices so they can gain entry onto their network and access personal information. The most commonly targeted devices are computers, laptops and smartphones, followed by networked cameras, networked storage devices, and streaming video devices.
Eero introduced eero for Service Providers-an all-new premium hardware and software offering designed specifically to help internet service providers meet customers' increasing demands for exceptional home WiFi. Beginning this November, eero for Service Providers will bring together real-time, actionable insights, advanced security measures and whole-home mesh WiFi systems to help ISPs offer fast, reliable WiFi and create new opportunities to improve the customer experience.
Instead of relying on customers to protect their vulnerable smart home devices from being used in cyberattacks, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and National University of Singapore researchers have developed a new method that enables telecommunications and internet service providers to monitor these devices. The researchers developed a method to detect connected, vulnerable IoT models before they are compromised by monitoring the data traffic from each smart home device.
Hey pirates, is your ISP named Charter Communications? Charter Communications, an ISP in the US, has been ordered to hand over personally identifying information for over 11,000 alleged pirates.
Virgin Media, one of the UK's biggest ISPs, on Thursday admitted it accidentally spilled 900,000 of its subscribers' personal information onto the internet via a poorly secured database. In a separate email to subscribers, shared with El Reg by dozens of readers, the telco expanded: "The database was used to manage information about our existing and potential customers in relation to some of our marketing activities. This included: contact details, technical and product information, including any requests you may have made to us using forms on our website. In a very small number of cases, it included date of birth."
Virgin Media, one of the UK's biggest ISPs, on Thursday admitted it accidentally spilled 900,000 of its subscribers' personal information onto the internet via a poorly secured database. In a separate email to subscribers, shared with El Reg by dozens of readers, the telco expanded: "The database was used to manage information about our existing and potential customers in relation to some of our marketing activities. This included: contact details, technical and product information, including any requests you may have made to us using forms on our website. In a very small number of cases, it included date of birth."
In a massive win for privacy rights, the advocate general advising the European Court of Justice has said that national security concerns should not override citizens' data privacy. In essence, the issue was whether national governments can oblige private parties - in this case, mostly ISPs - to hand over personal details by simply saying there were national security issues at hand.
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Mozilla on Friday posted a letter urging Congress to take the broadband industry's lobbying against encrypted DNS within Firefox and Chrome with a grain of salt.
Resistance to DNS-over-HTTPS deserves investigation Mozilla has asked American politicians to probe US broadband providers, claiming the ISPs have been making false statements to derail...