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The EU Right of Communication to the Public… in a Chart

This diagram shows how Europe's highest court interprets the 'right of communication to the public'.

RAG Goes Roaming in Africa

The next free conference of the Risk & Assurance Group (RAG) will be held at MTN's offices in Johannesburg on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th September.

Social Media and Fraud: Do It To Them Before They Do It To Us

Personal data is used to launch cyber attacks against us. Instead of just playing defense, we can take the fight to the criminals.

A Business That Does Not Know Where Things Are

Common sense tells us it is wasteful to own things but not know where they are, or how they are being used.

Telco Corruption Fuels SIMbox Frauds

A former criminal says that bypass frauds persist because there is so much corruption within telcos, governments, and even anti-fraud solution providers.

Google Is Funding Anti-Telco Academic Research

Google lowers its costs by advocating for laws that prevent telcos from invoicing Google. Meanwhile, academics are failing to state how much money they receive from Google.

Revenue Assurance: Building a Team

Recruitment might be helped by making RA job specifications sound more exciting, but what really matters is giving people with the right personality the chance to show what they can do.

Slack Supplier Exposes Verizon Customer Records

Nice Systems insecurely configured an Amazon cloud server used to hold data about calls made to Verizon's contact center.

Would You Pay $250 to Intercept Somebody’s Calls?

SS7 has security issues, but perhaps they have been over-publicized.

Why India Is Racing Ahead with Know Your Customer Biometrics

Shankar Palaniandy of FRS Labs talks about the Indian national ID database and its impact on customer verification and services.

MTN Nigeria Embroiled in Row after 11 Arrested for Fraud

One of the people arrested blamed engineers at MTN headquarters for taking advantage of weak IT security.

Canada Orders Google to De-Index Global Results

Canada's Supreme Court disagreed with Google about whether one country could impose a decision to remove search results even if that might break laws elsewhere.

The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard


Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.

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