HSBC Under Attack

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HSBC is working with law enforcement to catch those behind a cyber attack that forced its personal banking websites in the UK to shutdown, its second major service outage this month, the bank said on Friday. Europe’s largest lender said it had “successfully defended” its systems against a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack but it was experiencing fresh threats, impeding full restoration of its services. “HSBC’s internet and mobile services have partially recovered, and we continue to work to restore a full service,” John Hackett, UK Chief Operating Officer, said in a statement. “We are closely monitoring the situation with the authorities,” he added. The outage began on Friday morning and online services were still down by 1630 GMT … Read More

What is FTTC and FTTP?

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Fiber to the premises (FTTP) is a form of fiber-optic communication delivery, in which an optical fiber is run in an optical distribution network from the central office all the way to the premises occupied by the subscriber. Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) involves running fibre optic cables from the telephone exchange or distribution point to the street cabinets which then connect to a standard phone line to provide broadband. This is combined with a copper cable from the cabinet to the home or business which uses VDSL or similar technology that can deliver much faster speeds over shorter distances.