Orange steals number two spot from BT Cellnet

Orange could well be the UK number two mobile phone operator after adding 830,000 customers in the second quarter. The French-owned company has probably edged ahead of BT Cellnet to become second only to Vodafone, with 11.9 million UK customers. ...more

Internet boosts British music - BPI

The Internet has helped to make 2006 the best year in a decade for new British music, according to the BPI. New acts are selling more albums, more quickly, than ever before, according to the UK music industry body. It attributes the success to a rise in the quality in new acts and the 'creative impetus of digital media', with record companies taking advantage of digital distribution in order to promote new talent. ...more

AOL gets its broadband unbundled

AOL has emulated rivals Wanadoo and Tiscali and placed its first LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) orders with BT. It has already begun a small trial in London but the number of exchanges and locations that the ISP plans to unbundle is not known. The move to LLU was not unexpected as AOL has been dropping hints for some time and it will enable it to offer both faster and cheaper services. ...more

Keystroke-tapping worm runs riot

A virus is rapidly working its way across the Web, tracking the keystrokes of infected machines allowing hackers to pick up passwords, credit card details and other sensitive information. The W32.Badtrans. ...more

NISCC warns of email attacks on 300 key UK systems

The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) issued a report today warning that almost 300 key UK Government departments and major commercial organisations are being targeted by a highly sophisticated wave of email-borne attacks. The NISCC says that while the attacks have been in existence for sometime, lately there appears to have been a significant surge in the numbers of email involved. The attacks take the form of Trojans attached to emails, often with spoofed sender addresses and content designed to either tempt the victim into opening an attachment or visiting a malicious website in order to trigger the installation of malicious code. ...more