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> 2015 February

Training for RA: One down

By Michael Lazarou 25 Feb 2015 Education & Conferences

A review of “Foundations of Data Analysis”, a free statistics course provided by the University of Texas via edX.


NSA and GCHQ Steal Keys to SIM Cards

By Eric Priezkalns 20 Feb 2015 Privacy & Intellectual Property

Whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals how US and UK intelligence agencies hacked the world’s largest SIM maker, and mobile operators, in order to steal encryption keys.


Smileys Cause Bill Shock

By Eric Priezkalns 16 Feb 2015 Assurance & Audit

Some mobile customers are angry about receiving unexpectedly large bills after they typed text emoticons into their SMS messages, only for the handset to convert them into images.


Simbox Row Provokes More Tension In Ghana

By Eric Priezkalns 11 Feb 2015 Risk, Fraud & Security

Ghana’s extraordinarily public and political fight over simbox fraud continues with an opposition MP denouncing the government and Vodafone defending its reputation.


More Dodgy Numbers In Another RA Market Report

By Eric Priezkalns 9 Feb 2015 Assurance & Audit

If you work in revenue assurance, you surely need the instinct to spot numbers which look suspicious. I am often bemused by market ‘research’ reports…


New Sales and Marketing Exec at cVidya

By Eric Priezkalns 4 Feb 2015 Assurance & Audit

Israeli assurance vendor cVidya has appointed a new exec to take responsibility for sales and marketing, though seemingly they have chosen not to make a…


Simbox Fraud Debated On Ghana TV News

By Eric Priezkalns 2 Feb 2015 Risk, Fraud & Security

If there’s simboxing in your neighbourhood Who ya gonna call? Wampamba! Organized crime committing telecoms fraud Who ya gonna call? Wampamba! Old buddy Nixon Wampamba…


Replay Our Discussion Show from May 31

Our weekly Wednesday livestreams feature Commsrisk Editor Eric Priezkalns and his co-presenters engaging in conversation with risk experts from around the communications industry. Catch recordings of all past episodes at tv.commsrisk.com.
Our most recent episode tackled the thorny issue of nuisance robocalls and call authentication from several different perspectives. The guests were robocall researcher Sathik Prasad, network engineering veteran Pierce Gorman and Feng Hao, Professor of Security Engineering at Warwick University.

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