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A million scam calls a month never happen

Regular readers will know we take spam and scam calls, aka nuisance calls, very seriously. Every one is potentially a granny robbed of her life savin…

The Slough incident that wasn’t

Some of you will have noticed an entry on our status page on 15 June: “Reduced network redundancy in Slough availability zone.” What you won’t have n…

Kamailio CVEs

A few old vulnerabilities have been discovered in Kamailio (formerly OpenSER and SER) code, and two CVEs released: – CVE-2026-39863: Core – TCP Data…

Planned Maintenance

As well as the “annual price increase” emails, my inbox is busy at the moment with competitors busily planning maintenance. We monitor this to enhanc…

The most directly connected network in the UK?

Ever since I started playing with networks, I’ve particularly geeked out on the value added by routing. I guess it is the same pleasure some get from…

I take it back, Dido! And an update on the COLT matter

I have a lot of respect for Baroness (Dido) Harding. She was an early trailblazer for women leading tech firms, as CEO of TalkTalk, and now she lever…

Russia DDoS risk

Given rising political tensions and the news you will no doubt have seen, we have today put the network on a more defensive footing in anticipation o…

If the BBC did DDoS…

Comms Council UK just put out an e-mail to its members, saying one of its own has been suffering from a DDoS attack for several hours affecting its U…

Hello Old Friend

By Charles Chance Manchester is back and it’s big, in fact it’s EPYC! Dad jokes aside, I have some exciting tales about flashing lights and shiny box…

New US Availability Zone

By Alex Lane Greetings, We are introducing a new availability zone, and this is going live next week at 21:00 2022-07-06 UTC in North Virginia, US. A…

Good news for AWS customers

By Simon Woodhead There’s a lot that goes on in Simwood and we move fast. Quite often, what’d be earth shattering global PR justifying an entire prop…

VoIP DDoS Preparations – update

By Simon Woodhead It has been a week or so since we last updated on the emerging threat, so we wanted to update you. Whilst nobody (except George W B…

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