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The Virgin trains swindler, cyber clowns, and AirTag election debacle • Graham Cluley

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Smashing Security podcast #294: The Virgin trains swindler, cyber clowns, and AirTag election debacle

Someone’s election-fiddling is uncovered with an Apple AirTag, a cyber scandal rocks Germany, and a swindler steals a fortune due to trains being delayed.

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by runZero’s Chris Kirsch.

Plus don’t miss our featured interview with Akamai’s Patrick Sullivan talking about bots in the retail sector.




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Graham Cluley – @gcluley
Carole Theriault – @caroletheriault

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Chris Kirsch – @chris_kirsch

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the anti-virus industry having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent security analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of computer…

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Virgin Media O2, NEC and Rakuten Symphony drive multi-vendor Open RAN innovation in the UK: Press Releases

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London/Tokyo, August 30th, 2022 — new windowVirgin Media O2, NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and Rakuten Symphony have announced their joint multi-vendor Open RAN deployment is entering the field phase, commencing with the activation of the first live sites in Virgin Media O2’s commercial network. This successful multi-vendor Open RAN system deployment on macro-sites in the UK is notable for being in a brownfield network and baselined on the existing Telco Cloud supply chain to maximise future synergies. Based in the Northamptonshire region, the system highlights the mobile operator, NEC and Rakuten Symphony’s commitment to driving Open RAN innovation in the mobile industry.

Following a successful Open RAN lab trial on Virgin Media O2’s network with NEC, Rakuten Symphony and ecosystem partners last year, the field deployment is now operational to handle commercial traffic. NEC’s world-class system integration capabilities and fully open end-to-end solution, combined with Rakuten Symphony’s Open RAN software, edge cloud, and radio management and operations system, ensured the activation of the UK macro-sites while delivering vendor diversity and innovation.

These first live Open RAN macro-sites in Virgin Media O2’s network are possible after extensive testing at NEC and Rakuten Symphony’s labs in India and NEC’s Global Open RAN Centre of Excellence lab in Ruislip, London. The facility, equipped with state-of-the-art testing equipment, follows NEC’s design quality assurance process so that multi-vendor solutions can be efficiently integrated, tested, and validated before any field deployment.

The Virgin Media O2 Open RAN deployment aligns with the UK government’s efforts to diversify future telecom supply chains, recognising Open RAN’s importance in safeguarding security, resilience, innovation, and competition in critical national infrastructure.

Jeanie York, Chief Technology Officer at Virgin Media O2, said, “The successful activation of Virgin Media O2’s first UK macro-sites demonstrates the potential of the multi-vendor Open RAN model. We are strong believers in the power of diverse Open RAN ecosystems and in NEC, we have a partner that really shares our view. Its…

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Virgin Media just won’t take no for an answer, NFT apes, and bad optics • Graham Cluley

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Smashing Security podcast #256: Virgin Media just won't take no for an answer, NFT apes, and bad optics

After a brief discussion of the Log4Shell vulnerability panic, we discuss how Virgin Media has got itself into hot water, a fat-fingered fumble at the Bored Ape Yacht Club, and how to hack around your girlfriend’s facial recognition.

All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Mark Stockley.




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Graham Cluley – @gcluley
Carole Theriault – @caroletheriault

Guest:

Mark Stockley – @markstockley

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EE, Sky, Virgin Media, TalkTalk and Vodafone customers ‘at hacking risk’ from outdated routers

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MILLIONS of internet users could be at risk of hacking attacks due to using outdated routers from their broadband providers that have security flaws, a new investigation has revealed.

Households across the UK are using their home broadband more than ever, to work, educate their children or keep in touch with loved ones.

According to Ofcom full-fibre broadband is now available to over 437,000 (17%) of premises in Scotland – an increase of over 238,000 premises and the highest year-on-year increase seen so far in Scotland.

The rise is largely due to the continued investment in the rollout of fibre networks in Scotland from providers included last year, such as Openreach, Virgin Media and CityFibre.

Around 1.1 million homes in Scotland (42%) can get 1GB broadband, which includes full fibre services and Virgin Media’s fastest cable package. Scotland has the second highest availability of any UK nation.

READ MORE: Thousands of wireless cameras in Scotland ‘hacker-vulnerable’

According to new research many are unaware that old equipment provided by internet service providers (ISPs), including EE, Sky, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and Vodafone, could be putting them at risk of hackers spying on what they are browsing online or even directing them to malicious websites used by scammers.

The consumer organisation Which? has issued the warning after it investigated 13 old router models and found more than two-thirds, nine of them, had flaws that are likely to fail to meet requirements proposed in upcoming government laws to tackle the security of connected devices.

The legislation is not yet in force and so the ISPs are not currently breaking any laws or regulations.

Lab tests identified a range of security risks with the routers which could potentially affect around 7.5 million people.

Around six million people within this group of users could be using a router that has not been updated since 2018 or earlier, Which? said.

This means the devices have not been receiving security updates which are crucial for defending them against cyber criminals.

Problems with the old router models include having weak default passwords, which in certain…

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