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[Bowdon]

UK Internet Providers Call for Government Support on Cyber-Security

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today warned that the Government must avoid creating new regulations to tackle the challenges of cyber security. Instead ISPs say they should focus their efforts on supporting education, awareness and better training for law enforcement.

Security issues represent a constant headache for ISPs, as demonstrated by last year’s massive data breach of TalkTalk’s servers that exposed the personal details of some 156,959 customers to abuse. Today’s new report (PDF) further confirms that over 90% of providers are coming under some form of attack, but most are already upping their game.

[Chrysalis]

these breaches have a common issue in that the data was either stored unencrypted or with a weak hash.

This is negligence of the companies involved more than anything.