US police cut costs and worked around the need for court warrants by buying location data gathered by apps on 250mn phones. But there is no great outrage because we are complacent about privacy.

An unexpected surge of traffic from the USA helped August to become the second most popular month in the history of Commsrisk.

Fewer than 1 in 10 of Commsrisk readers come to the site via LinkedIn or Twitter. Can you afford to ignore the great majority of professionals who are not active on social media?

Cloudflare gets a lot of criticism but it is safer to trust their free speech policies than the slanted research of wannabe censors.

Fraudsters spoof devices to disguise how they inflate the number of views for video adverts. This is an iteration of the broadening threat of phoney online users generating faux traffic.

Russia's largest telco took internet traffic that should have gone to the largest US company but the response was muted.

The Israeli phone spyware company will reduce its headcount by one in seven as it struggles with multiple law suits.

The British operator implemented a new firewall in July but has not always been so adroit at protecting customers.

If the claims are true, Twitter faces the collapse of its bid to force a takeover by Elon Musk plus enormous fines for violating FTC orders.

Patrick Donegan of Hardenstance challenges assumptions about the ways nation states subvert networks and steal information.

Authorities praised for finding a man who made 8bn illegal calls should also be criticized for the failure to punish him earlier.

This article is not a stub. It states important facts about a discipline that too often treated the documentation of facts as unimportant.