Security News

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...

Guidelines for assessing ISPs’ security measures in the context of net neutrality
2018-12-13 06:30

According to the EU’s net neutrality regulation, called the Open Internet Regulation, which came into force in 2016, internet providers should treat all internet traffic to and from their...

TalkTalk hackhack duoduo thrownthrown in the coolercooler: 'Talented' pair sentenced for ransacking ISP
2018-11-20 07:32

Matthew Hanley, Connor Allsopp get 12 and 8 months in the clink, respectively Two miscreants were sent down by the Old Bailey yesterday for their role in the 2015 hacking of UK ISP TalkTalk.…

Bug Bounty Hunter Ran ISP Doxing Service
2018-11-09 20:52

A Connecticut man who's earned "bug bounty" rewards and public recognition from top telecom companies for finding and reporting security holes in their Web sites secretly operated a service that...

India's ISPs show they have good MANRS, sign up to Internet Society's routing security scheme
2018-09-04 14:20

Subcontinent agrees to bolster web infrastructure India's ISPs have agreed as a bloc to join The Internet Society's MANRS route integrity programme.…

Vulnerability in IP Relay Service Impacts Major Canadian ISPs
2018-08-20 13:40

A recently addressed local file disclosure vulnerability in the SOLEO IP Relay service impacted nearly all major Internet service providers (ISPs) in Canada, a security researcher has discovered. read more

Huge Cryptomining Attack on ISP-Grade Routers Spreads Globally
2018-08-02 13:33

Carrier-grade MikroTik routers are delivering potentially millions of daily cryptomining pages to the attacker.