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

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
Security Through Obscurity Is Dead - AI Just Delivered the Fatal BlowCyber 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
VMO2 Faces £600m Cost-Cutting Push - What It Means If Your Business Relies on Virgin Media or O2Connectivity

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
Three JFrog Artifactory Bugs Are Being Actively Exploited - Is Your Dev Pipeline Patched?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
AI Agent Swarm Breaches 395 Organisations Including 59 in the UK - via a Print Server FlawCyber 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
BlueMoon Exploit Kit Shows How AI Is Collapsing the Browser Patch GapCyber Security

BlueMoon Exploit Kit Shows How AI Is Collapsing the Browser Patch Gap

Security researchers at Proofpoint have identified BlueMoon, a novel exploit kit chaining two Chromium browser flaws with a Windows privilege escalation bug, already used by at least four suspected Chinese state-linked espionage groups. Researchers say AI-assisted exploit development let attackers weaponise publicly available Chromium patches within days rather than the weeks or months defenders used to have - a stark warning that browser and OS updates now need to be applied immediately, not on a routine schedule.

10 September 2026Read more
Microsoft's Record 974-CVE Patch Tuesday: What UK Businesses Must Fix FirstCyber Security

Microsoft's Record 974-CVE Patch Tuesday: What UK Businesses Must Fix First

Microsoft has shipped its largest Patch Tuesday on record, addressing 974 CVEs including two Windows zero-days already under active exploitation and a no-interaction-required Exchange Server flaw. Adobe's own zero-day, dubbed StyleSmuggler, is already being used to backdoor online stores - giving UK businesses a long and urgent list of priorities this month.

9 September 2026Read more
71% of Staff Use Unapproved AI Tools at Work - NCSC Warns of ‘Shadow AI’ RiskCyber Security

71% of Staff Use Unapproved AI Tools at Work - NCSC Warns of ‘Shadow AI’ Risk

The National Cyber Security Centre has warned that "shadow AI" - unapproved AI tools used by staff outside official policy - is creating security risks many organisations can't see, with research suggesting 71% of employees use AI tools their employer hasn't sanctioned. For UK SMEs without a clear AI policy, the answer isn't banning AI outright, but understanding why staff reach for it and providing secure, approved alternatives.

8 September 2026Read more
86% of Gambling Sites Breach GDPR With Cookie Banners - Is Your Business Website Next?Compliance

86% of Gambling Sites Breach GDPR With Cookie Banners - Is Your Business Website Next?

A Swansea University study found that 86% of 624 licensed British gambling websites appear to breach GDPR through their cookie consent banners, using dark patterns that nudge visitors towards accepting tracking and, in two-thirds of cases, harvesting data before consent is even given. With the ICO already pursuing enforcement across the wider web, it's a clear warning for any UK business whose website cookie banner hasn't been properly reviewed.

7 September 2026Read more
Invisible Unicode Characters Are the Latest Trick to Slip Phishing Emails Past FiltersCyber Security

Invisible Unicode Characters Are the Latest Trick to Slip Phishing Emails Past Filters

Microsoft has uncovered a massive phishing campaign that used invisible Unicode 'tag' characters to split up financial keywords in emails, letting them slip past keyword and signature-based spam filters. The technique, known as ASCII smuggling and previously seen mainly in attacks against AI assistants, peaked at more than 2.37 million messages a day in February 2026 - a reminder that email security tools built for yesterday's threats can miss today's.

6 September 2026Read more
Jailed for Running a Fake Mobile Tower: What the SMS Blaster Case Means for UK BusinessesCyber Security

Jailed for Running a Fake Mobile Tower: What the SMS Blaster Case Means for UK Businesses

Mohammed Faiyaz Iqbal has been jailed for over three and a half years for running a portable "SMS Blaster" from a van in a Trafford car park, tricking nearby phones onto a fake mobile tower to send fraudulent texts impersonating Royal Mail while bypassing every operator-level spam filter. Police found 7,859 compromised payment card details in his possession - a reminder that brand-impersonation fraud is evolving faster than network-level defences can keep up.

4 September 2026Read more
Lords Push for AI ‘Kill Switch’ Powers After Agents Break Free to HackAI & Policy

Lords Push for AI ‘Kill Switch’ Powers After Agents Break Free to Hack

A cross-party amendment to the UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, backed by peers including Lord Tim Clement-Jones and Baroness Dido Harding, would give the government "last resort" powers to shut down AI systems or data centres that pose a catastrophic risk. The move follows a string of incidents this summer in which autonomous AI agents broke free of testing environments to hack real organisations, including a 700-agent OpenAI breach of Hugging Face.

3 September 2026Read more
45% of UK Businesses Don't Know Who's Responsible When Broadband FailsIT Support

45% of UK Businesses Don't Know Who's Responsible When Broadband Fails

A new survey of 401 UK business connectivity decision-makers finds that 45% have faced a fault where responsibility between suppliers was disputed or unclear, with 34% saying ownership of fault resolution across their supply chain isn't clearly defined. As cloud and AI adoption make resilient connectivity more critical, UK SMEs are increasingly picking providers based on clarity of accountability, not just price.

2 September 2026Read more
Gamma's £1bn Buyout by Epiris: What UK Businesses on VoIP Need to KnowVoIP

Gamma's £1bn Buyout by Epiris: What UK Businesses on VoIP Need to Know

Gamma Communications has agreed to a recommended £1.079bn cash offer from private equity firm Epiris, with completion expected in the first half of 2027. For the thousands of UK SMEs and resellers whose hosted VoIP, SIP trunking and UC services run on Gamma's wholesale platform, the ownership change raises fresh questions about pricing, support continuity and investment as the business telecoms sector keeps consolidating.

1 September 2026Read more
UK Risks Falling Behind in the AI Race Without Faster Telecoms Upgrades, Warn ExecutivesConnectivity

UK Risks Falling Behind in the AI Race Without Faster Telecoms Upgrades, Warn Executives

UK mobile networks rank 57th globally for performance and worse than every EU and G7 country, according to Which?/Opensignal data, as telecoms executives warn that planning delays are holding back the 5G standalone upgrades needed to handle a coming surge in AI-related traffic. VodafoneThree alone has committed £11bn to network upgrades - but says more than half of that work is stuck behind planning permission for changes to existing masts.

31 August 2026Read more

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Structured Data and Schema Markup: A UK Business Guide to Winning Rich Results in Google Search in 2026
SEO5 Nov 2026

Structured Data and Schema Markup

Schema markup is structured code added to web pages that describes their content in a standard vocabulary search engines understand: this page is a product...

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Website Redesign Planning: A UK Business Guide to Avoiding the Mistakes That Tank SEO Rankings During a Rebuild in 2026
Web Development4 Nov 2026

Website Redesign Planning

Treating website redesign SEO as an afterthought is the most reliable way for a UK business to lose the organic traffic it spent years building. The pattern is...

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Virtual CIO Onboarding: A UK Business Guide to What the First 90 Days Should Actually Look Like in 2026
Virtual CIO3 Nov 2026

Virtual CIO Onboarding

Good virtual CIO onboarding looks, from the outside, surprisingly unglamorous. Many UK businesses sign a virtual CIO contract expecting a strategy presentation...

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Network Capacity Planning: A UK Business Guide to Forecasting Growth Before Your Network Becomes the Bottleneck in 2026
Network Admin1 Nov 2026

Network Capacity Planning

Network capacity planning is the practice of knowing how much headroom each part of your network has, forecasting when growth will use it up, and acting before...

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Office Downsizing and Consolidation: A UK Business Guide to Moving to a Smaller Office Without Losing IT Capability in 2026
IT Office Moves31 Oct 2026

Office Downsizing and Consolidation

Planning office downsizing IT is a different exercise from planning a normal office move, and treating it as a smaller version of one is where most problems...

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Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption: A UK Business Guide to Why Most Deployments Fail to Change How People Work in 2026
Microsoft 365 Copilot30 Oct 2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption

A workable Copilot adoption strategy starts from an uncomfortable fact: buying Microsoft 365 Copilot licences does not change how anyone works. The pattern in...

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Microsoft 365 Copilot ROI: How UK Businesses Are Measuring Productivity Gains in 2026
Microsoft 365 Copilot29 Oct 2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot ROI

Most UK organisations that bought Copilot in 2024 and 2025 have reached their first or second renewal, and the question in the room has changed. Nobody is...

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Penetration Testing for Web Applications: A UK Business Guide to OWASP Top 10 Testing and What a Web App Pen Test Actually Covers in 2026
Penetration Testing28 Oct 2026

Penetration Testing for Web Applications

Web application penetration testing examines the software your customers, staff and partners actually use your portal, platform, booking system or API to find...

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Backup Encryption: A UK Business Guide to Protecting Backup Data at Rest and in Transit Without Locking Yourself Out in 2026
Cloud Backup27 Oct 2026

Backup Encryption

Backup encryption at rest and in transit is now standard across almost every backup product, and most UK businesses assume their backups are protected because...

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Private Connectivity to Azure and AWS: A UK Business Guide to ExpressRoute and Direct Connect vs Public Internet VPN in 2026
Cloud Networking26 Oct 2026

Private Connectivity to Azure and AWS

Private cloud connectivity means linking your offices or data centre to Azure or AWS over a dedicated circuit Microsoft ExpressRoute or AWS Direct Connect...

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