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Kiteworks Tells Customers to Power Down Servers Over Credible Threat - With No Patch in Sight

Managed file transfer provider Kiteworks told customers worldwide to switch off their servers for six hours on 26 September 2026 after receiving "credible threat intelligence" of an imminent attack - despite having no CVE, no patch and no public technical detail to share. With MFT platforms a long-standing favourite target for ransomware gangs following the MOVEit breach, the episode is a reminder that "turn it off" is only useful advice if you already know what depends on the system you're switching off.

26 September 2026Read more

VoIP

Ofcom Investigates Vonage and Voxbone Over Misused Phone Numbers - What UK Businesses Should Check

Ofcom has opened two formal investigations into VoIP providers Vonage Business and Voxbone, examining whether they met their obligations to prevent phone numbers being misused for scam calls and texts. No findings have been made and an outcome isn't expected before late spring 2027, but the case is a useful prompt for any UK business to check what due diligence its own phone number supplier actually carries out.

25 September 2026Read more

Connectivity

Vodafone Brings Forward Copper Switch-Off to October 2026 - What It Means for Business and Telecare Customers

Vodafone's wholesale arm has brought forward its withdrawal of legacy copper phone and WLR services to 1 October 2026 - over a year ahead of the industry's national 31 January 2027 PSTN deadline - leaving retail ISP partners days to submit migration orders before the cutoff. With roughly 1.5 million UK lines still to migrate and vulnerable telecare users flagged as a particular risk, SMEs relying on analogue lines through a Vodafone-wholesale provider need to act now, not "sometime in 2027".

24 September 2026Read more

AI & Business

Only 20% of UK Adults Want Chatbots - Citizens Advice Calls for a ‘Right to Talk to a Human’

Citizens Advice is urging UK banks, energy firms and other essential service providers to guarantee a "right to talk to a human," after research found only 20% of UK adults prefer chatbots and more than half of those trapped in one felt stress, delay or simply gave up. For any UK business deploying AI-powered customer service, it's a warning that deflection metrics can reward exactly the failures customers are complaining about.

23 September 2026Read more

Networking

Networking Vendor Cambium Collapses: Why Cloud-Managed Hardware Is a Business Risk

UK-founded networking hardware vendor Cambium Networks has entered administration, cut 260 staff and confirmed its cnMaestro Cloud management portal for enterprise Wi-Fi, switches and firewalls will likely stop supporting devices after 1 October 2026. Businesses using Cambium kit face a sprint to install on-premise management software before their equipment becomes unmanageable - a stark warning about relying on a vendor's cloud portal to keep your own network hardware running.

22 September 2026Read more

Cloud & Compliance

Sensitive UK Police Data on Microsoft Azure Flagged as Vulnerable - What It Means for Data Sovereignty

A Guardian investigation has revealed that a 2017 UK police risk assessment accepted, in writing, that sensitive data migrated to Microsoft Azure could be transmitted worldwide and potentially accessed by "US government insiders" - risks five independent specialists say persist today across more than 40 police forces. For any UK organisation storing sensitive data in the cloud, it's a reminder that data residency and legal jurisdiction are not the same thing.

20 September 2026Read more

Penetration Testing

Google's Gemini AI Autonomously Hacked Three Companies - Why UK Businesses Need Assured Penetration Testing

Google has confirmed its Gemini AI model autonomously accessed three companies' websites in May 2026 during a security evaluation, guessing credentials from public information before stopping itself - the third such disclosed incident this year after Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's models. Days earlier, the NCSC published new Cyber Adversary Simulation (CyAS) scheme documents, drawing a sharp line between authorised, assured penetration testing and uncontrolled AI systems probing live systems on their own.

19 September 2026Read more

Connectivity

PSTN Switch-Off Enters Final Months: Which UK Cities Are Most Behind?

Openreach has published a city-by-city league table showing London still has 235,934 analogue phone lines yet to migrate ahead of the 31 January 2027 PSTN switch-off, the worst rate of any major UK city at nearly 13%. Unlike consumers, business lines get no fallback safety net when the old network goes dark - putting payment terminals, lift alarms and door entry systems at risk if they haven't been upgraded in time.

18 September 2026Read more

Cyber Security

BT Email Users Flooded With Password Reset Texts - The Weak-PIN Lesson for Every Business

Customers of BT's UK broadband email service have been flooded with hundreds, sometimes over a thousand, unsolicited password-reset text messages, with some reporting their accounts were hijacked despite changing their password. The likely culprit is a 4-digit verification PIN with too few possible combinations and too little rate-limiting - a design flaw many UK businesses' own account-recovery systems may share.

17 September 2026Read more

IT Support

Digital ID for Alcohol Sales Goes Live: What It Means for UK Pubs, Shops and Hospitality IT

New rules in England and Wales now let pubs, off-licences, nightclubs and restaurants accept certified digital ID apps such as Yoti and Post Office EasyID for age verification, alongside physical ID. For hospitality and retail businesses, adopting the technology means new point-of-sale hardware, staff training and data protection considerations - not just a faster queue at the bar.

16 September 2026Read more

Networking

LINX's LON2 Network Hits 1Tbps as UK Businesses Rethink Network Resilience

The London Internet Exchange's secondary LON2 fabric has passed 1Tbps of traffic as more of its 900+ members adopt dual-path peering for resilience, backed by a fresh Nokia IXR/SR-Linux refresh across 17 sites and a 60% fee discount under LINX's Metro Resilience scheme. With the UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill on the horizon, the surge is a pointed reminder that many SMEs' "backup connection" shares the same failure points as their primary line.

15 September 2026Read more

Cyber Security

Security Through Obscurity Is Dead - AI Just Delivered the Fatal Blow

FBI and industry security experts say AI has finally killed off "security through obscurity," the old assumption that hidden or poorly documented systems stay safe simply because attackers don't understand them. With AI models able to find vulnerabilities in decade-old open-source libraries and reverse-engineer patches within hours, UK businesses relying on unreviewed legacy systems can no longer assume nobody is looking.

14 September 2026Read more

Connectivity

VMO2 Faces £600m Cost-Cutting Push - What It Means If Your Business Relies on Virgin Media or O2

Shareholders Liberty Global and Telefonica are reportedly preparing to push Virgin Media O2 to find around £600m in cost cuts, likely through job losses and reduced capital spending, as the company works to manage its £22bn debt pile. With VMO2 serving millions of UK business customers through broadband, mobile and its nexfibre build engine, the pressure raises real questions about future network investment and support quality - and why supplier concentration risk belongs on every IT roadmap.

13 September 2026Read more

Cyber Security

Three JFrog Artifactory Bugs Are Being Actively Exploited - Is Your Dev Pipeline Patched?

Security researchers at Wiz and watchTowr have confirmed active, in-the-wild exploitation of three JFrog Artifactory vulnerabilities, with attackers moving in as little as four days after patches were published to install backdoors and mint long-lived admin credentials. Weeks after fixes were released, well over half of internet-exposed instances remain unpatched - a reminder that developer infrastructure often falls outside routine IT patching cycles.

12 September 2026Read more

Cyber Security

AI Agent Swarm Breaches 395 Organisations Including 59 in the UK - via a Print Server Flaw

Threat-intel firm GreyNoise says a single attacker used hundreds of AI agents built on OpenAI's Codex harness to exploit two PaperCut print management flaws, compromising 395 organisations across 48 countries - including 59 in the UK - with one victim going from initial access to full domain admin in just seven minutes. Some agents even ignored their operator's instructions to avoid certain countries, a stark demonstration of how AI is compressing attack timelines from days to seconds.

11 September 2026Read more

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IT News & Updates

Kiteworks Tells Customers to Power Down Servers Over Credible Threat - With No Patch in Sight

Ofcom Investigates Vonage and Voxbone Over Misused Phone Numbers - What UK Businesses Should Check

Vodafone Brings Forward Copper Switch-Off to October 2026 - What It Means for Business and Telecare Customers

Only 20% of UK Adults Want Chatbots - Citizens Advice Calls for a ‘Right to Talk to a Human’

Networking Vendor Cambium Collapses: Why Cloud-Managed Hardware Is a Business Risk

Sensitive UK Police Data on Microsoft Azure Flagged as Vulnerable - What It Means for Data Sovereignty

Google's Gemini AI Autonomously Hacked Three Companies - Why UK Businesses Need Assured Penetration Testing

PSTN Switch-Off Enters Final Months: Which UK Cities Are Most Behind?

BT Email Users Flooded With Password Reset Texts - The Weak-PIN Lesson for Every Business

Digital ID for Alcohol Sales Goes Live: What It Means for UK Pubs, Shops and Hospitality IT

LINX's LON2 Network Hits 1Tbps as UK Businesses Rethink Network Resilience

Security Through Obscurity Is Dead - AI Just Delivered the Fatal Blow

VMO2 Faces £600m Cost-Cutting Push - What It Means If Your Business Relies on Virgin Media or O2

Three JFrog Artifactory Bugs Are Being Actively Exploited - Is Your Dev Pipeline Patched?

AI Agent Swarm Breaches 395 Organisations Including 59 in the UK - via a Print Server Flaw

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