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Eleanor Holtmanns and Silke Holtmanns

Dr Silke Holtmanns (pictured right) is a distinguished expert in telecommunication security. She has worked as a security architect and researcher for Norlys, PwC, Enea, Bell Labs, Nokia and Ericsson as well as being an advisor to ENISA and the GSMA. Silke is the founder of Blue Hour Oy, a security consultancy.

Eleanor Holtmanns (pictured left) works as a Technical Consultant at Blue Hour Oy while studying Mathematical Sciences at the University of Oulu.

Articles by This Author

How to Detect SMS Blasters

SMS blasters operate outside legitimate mobile networks, but their activity can still be detected. This article explains how operators and regulators can identify false base stations by looking for radio, signalling and location anomalies.

The Privacy Risk with Satellite Backhaul

When GEO satellite internal link encryption is considered a non-priority, your information might just get broadcasted continent-wide, for anyone to intercept and see.

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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