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Aussie Hacker Made $500,000 by Finding and Reselling Netflix Credentials

23 year old Sydney web developer Evan McMahon was shown leniency because of his age and autism.

Phone Scammers Take $33mn from 90 Year Old Woman

A 90 year old Hong Kong woman was duped by fraudsters who claimed to be investigating a crime.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Wangiri but Were Afraid to Ask

Examining a year's worth of data from the RAG Wangiri Blockchain reveals the apparent source and destination of most wangiri attacks.

Subex Rated 15th Best Indian Firm for Data Scientists

The Indian RAFM, security and analytics vendor scored highly because their data science team had seen rapid growth whilst maintaining low rates of absenteeism.

Wangiri Warnings in Bulgaria, Ireland and Norway

The round-up of wangiri information made public in the last three months includes a typically exotic list of apparent sources including the Maldives, Tunisia and North Korea.

American Lawyers Turn Anti-Robocall Law Into Hot Steaming Mess

Do not blame Sonia Sotomayor and the Supreme Court of the United States for correctly reading an ineptly written law.

Only 1 in 5 Mobile Operators Believe GSMA/3GPP Security Guidelines Cover All Signaling Threats

The Cellusys-Kaleido signaling security survey contains many other statistics that will trouble risk managers and ordinary phone users.

RAG Learning Celebrates Third Birthday and Offers New Course on Roaming SMS Fraud

Günter Haberkorn of Deutsche Telekom gave the gift of a great presentation that RAG turned into a new training course.

Why Closing the Digital Divide with Smart Credit and Smart Security Is Good for Everybody

Trustonic CEO Dion Price told RAG TV about people being denied credit for a smartphone when they can obtain it for other products.

Last Chance to Benchmark Your Leakage Coverage

Broaden your revenue assurance horizons by understanding which leakage points are addressed by comms providers who are one or two steps ahead of you.

A Brief Guide to the Digital Divide

The cost of internet access is still too high for millions of people, but the cost of not having access is also high.

Canada Postpones STIR/SHAKEN Deadline Yet Again

Continued 'technical and policy issues' means the Canadian regulator has delayed the mandatory adoption of the new call authentication technology by a total of 32 months.

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