Commsrisk has published 3,442 articles about the risks faced by comms providers and their customers over the course of 17 years and 9 months. These are the last words.

A homily on the need to admit ignorance.

The recent CEPT workshop on fraud prevention showed that European comms regulators are on the right track.

It is funny how the US telecoms sector never seems to be concerned when big businesses originate bad calls.

The banking authorities want customers to authenticate themselves via tokens on their mobile phones.

The rot starts at the head.

US government agencies like to tell the private sector about the urgent need to protect the public from harm, but that does not translate into bureaucrats doing their jobs more rapidly.

Foreign telcos may try to help the FCC, but the FCC lacks the competence to help itself.

The leading British network is also going to impose tougher SMS blocks from today.

The crooks stole EUR2.5mn by combining scam phone calls with visits to the homes of victims.

The data was compromised via an insecure API for Authy, the two-factor authentication app owned by Twilio.

The FCC wants telcos to unlock mobile phones within 60 days of activation.