Risk, Fraud & Security

They are following the lead of Twitter by wanting to cut expenditure on SMS messages for user authentication.

CEO Börje Ekholm offered more platitudes about ethics after US prosecutors levied another big penalty for corruption.

If journalists can gather intelligence about security breaches then others could do the same before the story goes public.

A security researcher concluded telcos lack the language skills needed to identify and address persistent scams aimed at non-native speakers.

Amir Hossein Golshan is alleged to have demanded dates and masturbated whilst a victim performed a striptease by video call.

Hijacking the phone services of victims was part of a process that culminated with bank withdrawals made in person using fake ID.

Comms providers will fear other businesses may follow Twitter’s lead by telling users to adopt different modes of authentication.

Apps on almost 11 million infected devices played multiple video ads that were hidden so users would not see them.

Insiders at mobile network operator NetOne have been accused of a string of enormous frauds involving stolen vouchers and airtime.

A monitoring regime that was meant to address past failings did not identify or disclose bribes paid to terrorists in Iraq.

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