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> 2022 October

Hacker Leaks Manuals Showing How Iran Uses Mobile Networks to Track Protesters

By Eric Priezkalns 31 Oct 2022 Privacy & Intellectual Property

The hacker acted in response to the brutal crackdown following the suspected murder of Mahsa Amini by Iran’s morality police.


7 Steps to Understanding the Paradox at the Heart of STIR/SHAKEN

By Eric Priezkalns 28 Oct 2022 Nuisance & Spam

There is no point in adding signatures to calls unless you also plan to use them to drive bad actors out of the telecoms ecosystem.


Revenue Assurance Has Lost Its Way

By Eric Priezkalns 27 Oct 2022 Assurance & Audit

The community of revenue assurance professionals has not found the leadership it so desperately needs.


Voice Spam Will Soon Be as Bad as Email Spam

By Eric Priezkalns 26 Oct 2022 Nuisance & Spam

Do not be surprised if customers start abandoning the use of phone numbers to exclusively rely on OTT voice services instead.


Is It a Good Idea to Offer to Disguise IMSIs?

By Eric Priezkalns 25 Oct 2022 Privacy & Intellectual Property

A new pseudo-network offers privacy-conscious mobile phone users the ability to change their IMSI at the press of a button.


NSO Phone Spy Founder Hires Former Austrian Chancellor for Utilities Security Business

By Eric Priezkalns 24 Oct 2022 Risk, Fraud & Security

A man who systematically undermined phone security wants to be paid to secure vital infrastructure. What could possibly go wrong?


The Rise of Rogue Russian Operators in Ukraine

By Eric Priezkalns 21 Oct 2022 Cold War 2

Are new Russian operators being established so quickly in occupied territory because the military relies on civilian networks, or could there be a darker purpose?


Japanese Next-Gen Developer Builds New Technology Core for the RAG Fraud Blockchain

By Eric Priezkalns 20 Oct 2022 Risk, Fraud & Security

SORAMITSU are experts at creating blockchains that are secure and scalable whilst supporting tokenization and permissioned access.


UK Trial Suggests Customers See No Benefit in Switch from PSTN to VoIP

By Eric Priezkalns 19 Oct 2022 General

Landlines may be turning more digital but the process of cleaning up after an engineer remains stubbornly analog.


Corruption in Kazakhstan’s Rotten Telecoms

By David Morrow 18 Oct 2022 Risk, Fraud & Security

The web of murky dealings surrounding state-owned operator Kazakhtelecom stretches from former President Nursultan Nazarbayev to Swedish telcos Telia and Tele2.


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