Risk, Fraud & Security

The Australian regulator says victims of SIM swaps lose around AUD28,000 (USD21,000) on average.

Opinions about how to respond to a crime change according to the frequency of that crime.

Netflix wants customers in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru to pay more if their accounts are being accessed by multiple households, but they used to openly encourage the sharing of passwords.

The arrest of an English teenager who offered $20,000 bribes to big telco insiders shows security paradigms do not fit the facts.

The actions and inaction of two more senior Swedish telecoms execs are analyzed in the second part of this series on corruption.

The monthly round-up about the one-ring scam features a telco that makes marketing calls which have a similar impact to scams and some cod psychology about Scandinavians.

The first part in a series about holding telecoms bosses accountable for corruption features the stories of Kurt Hellström and Carl-Henric Svanberg, two former CEOs at Ericsson.

Darren Purkis, CFO at Three UK, also said 'bigger attacks' like Flubot had sometimes led to even more messages being blocked.

Colin Yates, the leading expert on international revenue share fraud, will give data about 50,000 fraud targets in Ukraine to any telco that responded to the crisis by cutting the cost of calls to Ukraine.

Suspicion surrounds Ericsson because promises to be 'transparent' about corrupt business practices have so obviously been broken.

Ericsson's billon-dollar settlement of corruption charges with the US DoJ and SEC may be invalidated by revelations of more wrongdoing that was not previously disclosed.

37 pages of Ofcom waffle could have been reduced to a few sentences saying they hope somebody else will tell them what to do.