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“Mozilla aren’t villains after all” – ISPs back down after public outcry
2019-07-11 00:10

Mozilla was nominated for an "Internet Villain" award - and The People Of The Internet were not pleased

ISPs call Mozilla ‘Internet Villain’ for promoting DNS privacy
2019-07-08 11:19

ISPA has shortlisted Mozilla for the sort of award that, on the face of it, no tech company should be keen to win - 2019’s Internet Villain.

Mozilla Nominated for 'Internet Villain' by Angry ISPs
2019-07-05 09:48

Shaming of Mozilla Over Secure DNS Raises Security Community EyebrowsTogether with President Donald Trump and the EU Copyright Directive, the U.K's Internet Services Providers' Association has...

Group Seeks Investigation of Deep Packet Inspection Use by ISPs
2019-05-16 15:46

European Digital Rights Organization Seeks Investigation Into Internet Service Providers' Use of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) read more

DNS over HTTPS is coming whether ISPs and governments like it or not
2019-04-24 10:59

DNS over HTTPS (DoH), backed by Google, Mozilla and Cloudflare, is about to make web surveillance a lot more difficult.

Huawei bungled router security, leaving kit open to botnets, despite alert from ISP years prior
2019-03-28 09:15

Chinese kit slinger was told of UPnP flaw in 2013, didn't do too much about it Exclusive Huawei bungled its response to warnings from an ISP's code review team about a security vulnerability...

Russian ISPs plan internet disconnection test for entire country
2019-02-12 11:58

Russia’s major ISPs plan to temporarily disconnect servers from the internet, effectively cutting the country off from the outside world.

Bit-and-Piece DDoS Method Emerges to Torment ISPs
2019-01-24 14:11

Perpetrators are using smaller, bit-and-piece methods to inject junk into legitimate traffic, causing attacks to bypass detection rather than sounding alarms with large, obvious attack spikes.

Fake broadband ISP support scammers accidentally cough up IP address to Deadpool in card phish gone wrong
2019-01-23 21:27

A tale of Twitter fraudsters, an infosec biz boss, and a quest for one honeypot hit Fraudsters masquerading as ISP support agents to phish payment card details have been unmasked – after they...

Fake broadband ISP support scammers accidentally cough up IP address to Deadpool in card phish gone wrng
2019-01-23 21:27

A tale of Twitter fraudsters, an infosec biz boss, and a quest for one honeypot hit Fraudsters masquerading as ISP support agents to phish payment card details have been unmasked – after they...