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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 its 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.
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David Cameron has pledged that all UK homes and businesses will have access to fast broadband by 2020 backed by a Universal Service Obligation, giving the public the right to request an affordable, fast connection, making internet access a guaranteed service like water and electricity. Read more
Scam emails pretending to be from the Government Gateway are being set out again.
Some scam emails are still offering larger bodily parts or performance enhancing substances but they are easy to spot by both humans and computers. So the scammers have taken things up a notch in the past year or so, creating plausible and relevant scam emails that could catch the unwary.
One such email currently being distributed is pretending to be from the Government Gateway, part of the UK’s e-Government service for various business and tax electronic form submissions. Read more
There are many reasons why your internet may not be trundling along as fast as you are expecting, from poor broadband supply to malware and viruses. Read more
Users of Microsoft Windows 7 & 8 will start to notice a new icon in their system tray with the slanted Windows logo informing them of the opportunity to upgrade to Windows 10. No, it’s not a virus or malware, it’s a genuine offer from Microsoft.
Anyone currently using a genuine Windows 7 (with SP1) or 8.1 PC or on Windows Phone 8.1 will have the opportunity to upgrade, for free, to Windows 10 when it is released in July this year. Read more
Several new exploits have been identified recently that are designed to attach your home or business router from inside, and install code to allow hackers to open a backdoor to your network and your data.
The exploits are designed to get into a network either by infecting devices that go outside of your firewall, such as mobiles, tablets and laptops, or by tricking the user into downloading a malicious file. Once inside the network, the malware gets to work on your firewall, attempting to inject code into the firewall that will allow external code to be added to innocent web pages. So you might be viewing the BBC site for example, and the code adds advertising and other unwanted scripts to the page as it passes through your firewall, meaning the page you see if very different from the one served up by the BBC servers. Read more