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Is Enough Being Done to Counter the Privacy and Spam Threat Created by Global Title Leasing?

A GSMA code of conduct lists requirements that would curtail the abuse of Global Titles. But will bad actors take any notice?

Kenyans Borrow $5bn a Year via Mobile Money Overdrafts

The financial accounts of Safaricom state that lending through their Fuliza microlending service rose 40 percent year-on-year.

i3forum Bids to Unite Carriers and Resolve the Global Spoofing Crisis

The club for wholesale carriers is tired of watching regulators pursue unrealistic methods of validating international voice traffic.

Do Lawyers Need to Worry about IMSI-Catchers?

Sometimes it is worth asking whose privacy is being protected.

We Need Robo-ears to Understand Robocalls

NCSU researchers extended their robocall honeypot by using machine learning to analyze what scammers tell victims to do. This led them to identify a wholly new way of protecting the public.

Anti-fraud Vendor Asks If Some Anti-fraud Systems Are a ‘Smokescreen’ for Profits from Unlawful Traffic

CodeB published an unorthodox article which appears to be a hypothetical story about an A2P SMS carrier and a bank.

Should Phone Numbers Cost More?

The US state of Maine has increased the cost of numbers using their area code to discourage their abuse by spammers.

Spoofed Police Email Fools Canadian News into Running Fake Crypto Heist Story

Stories about teenagers stealing Bitcoin are so common that CBC journalists let themselves be fooled by a bogus press release.

Russian Satellite Comms Operator Admits Outage and Breach Caused by Cloud Hackers

Dozor-Teleport said it may take weeks to fully recover. The hackers said they supported the Wagner rebellion.

68 Academics Defend End-to-End Encryption in Broadside Against New UK Law

The privacy and cybersec experts were technically correct but ignored the key issue at the heart of the UK's Online Safety Bill.

Police Got Crime Intel from 115mn Conversations by Infiltrating EncroChat Comms Network

Spying on the encrypted comms allowed police to subsequently seize or freeze almost a billion dollars' worth of cash and bank accounts.

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