The Hong Kongers had entered Thailand just nine days earlier, and had been staying in a nearby hotel.

The FCC asks if signaling security should be improved although Senator Ron Wyden has already explained why urgent action must be taken.

ComReg projects that the returns generated by new fraud prevention controls for voice and SMS will be 55 times the cost of implementing them.

The peculiar way Spain has applied data protection law to SIM swap fraud deserves further scrutiny following court appeals from both Digi and Movistar.

Most countries do not make sufficient effort to arrest telecom and online scammers. Is China doing too much?

Some worry that the popular messaging app will turn millions of phones into the equivalent of simboxes, but there is a deeper lesson to be learned about the factors which determine value.

Over 50 percent of cases filed during 2023 alleged that cryptocurrency was stolen as a result of a mobile provider executing a fraudulent SIM swap.

Did you miss any of the big stories about risk in the communications sector? These articles received most attention during March.

The faltering US telco has routinely repeated the same excuses for failure whilst consciously exploiting a huge trove of personal data.

Risk managers will increasingly rely on machine learning to stay ahead of risks and to protect their businesses.

A Chinese citizen jailed in France said the export of radio devices used to send scam SMS messages occurs with the consent of Chinese political leaders.

A lot of guidance can defeat a very little principle.