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US Law to Bully Foreign Nations into Adopting STIR/SHAKEN Progresses through Senate
Have you heard of the Foreign Robocall Elimination Act? If passed into law, America's Sheriffs will impose their version of law and order on your country.
Cybersecurity Professor Warns Against Treating Compliance as an Exercise in Procurement
Professor Kim Yongdae of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology has a message for telcos that get hacked and for the regulators that oversee them.
Commsrisk Top Ten for September 2025
These were the hottest articles that Commsrisk published during September, plus some insights into the impact that AI is having on visitors to this website.
Time to Slow Down
My contributions to Commsrisk will be reduced to three articles per week as the website pivots towards more automatically-generated charts representing data from around the world.
Commsrisk Top Ten for August 2025
The most popular Commsrisk articles of last month included lots of statistics and lots of photographs of SMS blasters.
Two Malaysians Arrested for Using an IMSI-Catcher in the Philippines
Were they spying on phone users or committing fraud? Tense relations with China and the politicization of similar arrests makes it difficult to judge.
Law Firm That Threatened Commsrisk Faces Disciplinary Action for Representing $4bn Cryptocurrency Fraudsters
Carter-Ruck sent libel threats to financial experts who rightly warned that OneCoin was a giant scam.
Commsrisk Top Ten for June 2025
Our monthly rundown of the most popular Commsrisk articles also highlights the difference between the news that is made most widely available and the news that most interests readers of Commsrisk.
Commsrisk Top Ten for May 2025
Commsrisk had a bumper month thanks to news stories that drew in new readers worldwide. These were the most popular articles during May.
Prominent Industry Figures Criticize ‘Regulatory Capture’ by Biggest US Telcos
The US consumer protection strategy is an impenetrable catastrophe. Much of the problem stems from the handsome rewards paid to people who spread misinformation.
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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