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Warning Don't Join TalkTalk!
Myself and many other TalkTalk customers have been inundated with hundreds of spam emails from an organisation spoofing a genuine domain '@cisco.com'.
When these spam emails started the domains were different IE. @tamil.com. The TalkTalk spam filter on webmail doesn't work i.e. I have blocked emails containing 'cisco' in the address, but they still come through. TalkTalk ask me for the email mail headers and say they will take action, however they appear to have given up and I am fobbed off with standard blocking instructions and that I will have to find another email provider. The irony is some of the spam is advertising TalkTalk! I do use my own spam filter, 'Spamilator' , but the sheer volume of Spam means that it is a major inconvenience. I cannot believe it is beyond their engineers to stop these emails and spammers spoofing genuine domains.I also cannot believe that they can't devise a working spam filter for their webmail. This should stop the spam before it reaches my (old style) Microsoft Outlook. TalkTalk are constantly increasing their fees, however the service just gets worse and worse. |
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This today IN ADDITION to their major issues with spam:
TalkTalk website hit by outage, broadband customers also KO'd http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10...lktalk_outage/ TalkTalk are constantly putting up their fees! |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: South Wales/Gran Canaria
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Sign up to TT, I, family and friends have great service from them.
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Join Date: Feb 2013
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to be fair i nor anyone i know has any more problems with talktalk than any other ISP for the cost they are actually very good service, yea they have a problem with spam but so dose yahoo and their main product is email, i don't get why is 2015 your relying on ISP mail
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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I suggest you look at their own forum to see the scale of the problem,. Also this IS 2015 and I should expect better service.
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Join Date: Sep 2008
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I stopped using ISP provided email when Gmail started. I never had a problem with TalkTalk's FTTC service and I think I may try them again when I move house soon, especially as their new Super Router looks good
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Stoke on Trent,staffs,UK
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My brothers been with TalkTalk for years and has no complaints for the price.
I' m with Virgin and theres rucks of spam coming through their filters too right now! |
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There are thousands of these attacks every single day on UK businesses alone, this one is headlines because four million people are potentially affected; this won't send me looking for a new provider, the attack is yet another of life's PITA's
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There are thousands of these attacks every single day on UK businesses alone, this one is headlines because four million people are potentially affected; this won't send me looking for a new provider, the attack is yet another of life's PITA's
You can't draw parallels between this breach and others. Businesses do get routinely attacked. Your home router is constanltly being attacked. That's why they have decent IT security, so those attacks don't result in actual damage (or in the case of your router, there's nothing to attack). In this case TT have been caught with their pants down - millions of customers' data potentially exposed, and people are already reporting emails and phone calls that could only have resulted from the personal data that came from this hack. There are not many occasions of that sort of thing happening. That's why it is national news when they do happen. |
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I can't believe you're still defending them.
You can't draw parallels between this breach and others. Businesses do get routinely attacked. Your home router is constanltly being attacked. That's why they have decent IT security, so those attacks don't result in actual damage (or in the case of your router, there's nothing to attack). In this case TT have been caught with their pants down - millions of customers' data potentially exposed, and people are already reporting emails and phone calls that could only have resulted from the personal data that came from this hack. There are not many occasions of that sort of thing happening. That's why it is national news when they do happen. |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Been with Talk Talk, previously AOL, for donkeys years.
Fortunately i've only ever had two issues and I found how to fix them myself as the call centre in India just kept saying it was a problem with my hardware and would I like to upgrade. It also took 5-6 calls to different people to get the right login for for my broadband when went from dialup to broadband. The user/pass was fine it was the PPPoe stuff they told me that was wrong. Always said I would leave when another issues arose but until now, it's all been good. |
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Been with Talk Talk, previously AOL, for donkeys years.
Fortunately i've only ever had two issues and I found how to fix them myself as the call centre in India just kept saying it was a problem with my hardware and would I like to upgrade. It also took 5-6 calls to different people to get the right login for for my broadband when went from dialup to broadband. The user/pass was fine it was the PPPoe stuff they told me that was wrong. Always said I would leave when another issues arose but until now, it's all been good. )The only other issue I ever had with AOL was when there was an email hack at the end of 2012... No idea how it happened but AOL eventually admitted our email passwords had been stolen from their database (note by this time they are basically merging with Talk Talk) But I can't really fault AOL which is why I stayed with them from 2000 to when they became TalkTalk. But after this fiasco definitely time for a change... Probably won't do anything until after Christmas (I figure while my details are in the hands of criminals it's probably better to be within TalkTalk umbrella initially) but next year we're done. |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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I can't believe you're still defending them.
You can't draw parallels between this breach and others. Businesses do get routinely attacked. Your home router is constanltly being attacked. That's why they have decent IT security, so those attacks don't result in actual damage (or in the case of your router, there's nothing to attack). In this case TT have been caught with their pants down - millions of customers' data potentially exposed, and people are already reporting emails and phone calls that could only have resulted from the personal data that came from this hack. There are not many occasions of that sort of thing happening. That's why it is national news when they do happen. I can't believe the amount of panic regarding TT shown here by some members. |
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I'm not as such defending them but I'm a sensible chap and don't panic, don't throw my toys out of the pram.
I can't believe the amount of panic regarding TT shown here by some members. It's like going to a hospital, seeing that the staff don't wash their hands or clean the beds or take proper precautions against infection, and then being happy when the nurse says "yeah it's fine because we're not putting our hands into people's mouths" I agree that we don't know yet what has really happened, but their already low reputation deserves to sink further after all this. |
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How prescient was my thread?
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They're ditching the 10% speedy payment discount from 1st December. So that's effectively an 11% price increase - and on top of the three price rises in the last 12 months (plus the increase on the free calls to landlines fee from £5 to £7.50.)
On top of that they can't even keep customers details encrypted. Total joke of a company. I am so annoyed by this whole fiasco. |
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Yeah, I had a couple of issues when I went from dial up to Broadband but AOL was very good at resolving these (I used to love their Irish call centers, LOL
)The only other issue I ever had with AOL was when there was an email hack at the end of 2012... No idea how it happened but AOL eventually admitted our email passwords had been stolen from their database (note by this time they are basically merging with Talk Talk) But I can't really fault AOL which is why I stayed with them from 2000 to when they became TalkTalk. But after this fiasco definitely time for a change... Probably won't do anything until after Christmas (I figure while my details are in the hands of criminals it's probably better to be within TalkTalk umbrella initially) but next year we're done.
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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I can't believe the amount of panic regarding TT shown here by some members.
I've had enough. Price hikes was one thing, but having had loads of spam, the calls about my router, and now this has made me say enough is enough. I'm also angry at myself because by changing provider, I'm saving £15 a month. That's enough to make my Three mobile subscription effectively free now! |
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The word is anger, not panic.
I've had enough. Price hikes was one thing, but having had loads of spam, the calls about my router, and now this has made me say enough is enough. I'm also angry at myself because by changing provider, I'm saving £15 a month. That's enough to make my Three mobile subscription effectively free now! |
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Join Date: Sep 2011
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just want to know about talktalk I got bills for my internet that need to be payed soon what will happen are they still going take payment or will they take it after all this poo has happened
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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I have never been with Talk Talk but have always heard mixed review about them.
Someone I know though work is with Talk Talk and say there service is not that great but there street don't have Talk Talk fibre yet BT Infinity is in there area but again BT Infinity is only at some green cabs in there village that's a over mile or so to the west of where I stay. Darren |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: County Durham
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This today IN ADDITION to their major issues with spam:
TalkTalk website hit by outage, broadband customers also KO'd http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10...lktalk_outage/ TalkTalk are constantly putting up their fees! |
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Join Date: Dec 2010
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Any ISP can be hit with an attack like what happened to TalkTalk. No ISP out there is immune from what happened to TalkTalk. I can't say anything about the supposedly constantly rising of fees as I've not been with them long enough.
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Any ISP can be hit with an attack like what happened to TalkTalk. No ISP out there is immune from what happened to TalkTalk. I can't say anything about the supposedly constantly rising of fees as I've not been with them long enough.
Again, TalkTalk have had several successful data breaches this year. Other ISPs have had none? If an ISP made reasonable precautions and then got attacked in some unprecedented way, then fair enough. But SQL injections are among the first things you should eliminate when building a system. When the CEO is out saying "well we didn't need to encrypt as the law didn't say we had to", you know something is badly wrong with the way they do things. (let's forget that the law actually says you should make reasonable precautions and that would arguably include encryption if possible, and PCI compliance would require it). |
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Location: Leicester
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Talktalk were cheap and .... uncheerful. They are moving away from the discount model and are pushing more services to compete with BT and Sky. So far the only difference in their new strategy is the price going up!
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