FBI say Russia is responsible for another router attack, this time it’s thought the target was the Ukraine, but there may be between 500,000 and 1,000,000 infected devices worldwide. TL;DR: Reboot your router and nas to disrupt the malware.
Notwork Don’t let your network turn into a notwork. With more and more devices using the network to communicate with each other and the outside world, your network is being put under more and more strain. On an unmanaged network, you’ll soon start to see bottlenecks and network slowdown. Do Read more…
Protecting you from the video nasties… Back in the 1970’s a ‘neat little self-replicating automata’ was released on the ARPANET (the predecessor of today’s internet) that was called “the creeper“. Not a virus in the way we think of them today, it was more of a test of code and Read more…
The number of private home routers being duped into living a secret life as part of a botnet or in serving up malicious DNS results to it’s users has seen a surge in the latter half of 2016. It’s thought that the majority of traffic in the DDoS attack on various gaming servers in Christmas 2015 was generated from home routers that had been compromised.
If you’re using your home phone line for internet connection, it’s likely that you’re connected to an ADSL line (Asymmetric DSL) but there are other variants of DSL that may be available in your area, with VDSL currently being rolled out across the UK offering higher upload and download speeds.