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  • 30 May 2023 | ENISA Publishes 5G Security Controls Matrix
  • 29 May 2023 | Arguments in Brazil about STIR/SHAKEN
  • 26 May 2023 | Will AI-Powered Spam Filters Be Forced on Indian Telcos?
  • 25 May 2023 | Nation State Hacking, Pre-Installed Malware, Prison for Spoofer and Job Cuts: Commsrisk Show Episode 11
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  • 19 May 2023 | Artificially Inflated Traffic from Bots Makes Spotify Remove Thousands of AI-Generated Songs
  • 18 May 2023 | Karsten Nohl on Cloud Hacking, Central Bank Ends SMS 2FA and Macron’s Filter: Commsrisk Show Episode 10
  • 17 May 2023 | Infobip and Sinch Failed to Stop Thousands of SMS Scam Messages, Says Aussie Regulator
> 2020 April

RAG TV: Colin Yates on IRSF and Europol

By Eric Priezkalns 30 Apr 2020 Risk, Fraud & Security

Why are so few telco fraudsters punished? Is it sufficient to block the top ten IRSF destinations? Does RA suffer a lack of innovation? These and other questions were covered in this week’s episode.


COVID-19, Privacy and Telecoms: A Round-Up

By Eric Priezkalns 29 Apr 2020 Privacy & Intellectual Property

From satellite tracking to CDR data to contact-tracing apps, many mechanisms are being used to monitor people’s movements. This raises concerns about the balance between health and privacy.


Telecoms Risk Community Comes Together for First Virtual Conference

By Eric Priezkalns 28 Apr 2020 Education & Conferences

RAG Online will bring together live speakers from Australia to the USA and many countries between on May 13th and 14th.


US Threatens to Bar Four Chinese Telcos on Security Grounds

By Eric Priezkalns 27 Apr 2020 Risk, Fraud & Security

Subsidiaries of China Telecom and China Unicom are amongst the telcos whose US operating authorization may be revoked.


Watching the Watchers: Auditors Give Bad Review of Tanzanian Telecoms Regulator

By Joseph Nderitu 24 Apr 2020 Assurance & Audit

TCRA is tasked to monitor telco revenues but is failing per a report by Tanzania’s Controller and Auditor General, Charles Kichere.


RAG TV: SIP, Signals, Fraud, Robocalls and Politics

By Eric Priezkalns 23 Apr 2020 Risk, Fraud & Security

Arnd Baranowski, Oculeus CEO, was the guest of RAG TV for a wide-ranging and topical discussion about the way IP networks have altered the fraud landscape and the mitigation of risks.


The Prison Journal of an Innocent Man Accused of Fraud: Conclusion

By Joseph Nderitu 22 Apr 2020 General

This serial ends with Joseph deciding he cannot fight a government that perfects extortion under the guise of fighting corruption.


Zimbabwe Telco Insiders Accused of Using Mobile Money to Steal $69k

By Eric Priezkalns 21 Apr 2020 Digital Money

An employee of Econet created a SIM for a merchant account so he could use it to make payments to bogus agents.


Some RAFM Vendors Should Be Excluded

By Eric Priezkalns 20 Apr 2020 Education & Conferences

Collaboration will only deliver lasting results if we exclude the bad to protect the good.


US Sets Deadline for Telcos to Use STIR/SHAKEN

By Eric Priezkalns 17 Apr 2020 Risk, Fraud & Security

The IP network of every US telco must follow the protocol for authenticating caller IDs by 30th June 2021. There are estimates that some telcos will incur up-front costs of over $10mn.


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Replay Our Discussion Show from May 24

Join Commsrisk Editor Eric Priezkalns and his co-presenters every Wednesday at tv.commsrisk.com for live conversation involving risk experts from around the world of electronic communications.
The main theme for our latest episode was attacks on comms providers by nation states, with expert analysis provided by special guest Patrick Donegan of Hardenstance. The team also chatted about the 14-year prison sentence for the man who ran ‘iSpoof’ and the extent to which AI will cause job cuts in telcos.

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