Risk, Fraud & Security

Fraudsters used the account of Bishop Thulani Xaba to send messages asking for financial help.

The winners leverage biometrics for standards-driven authentication of users.

Huawei Chairman Guo Ping made a robust speech at MWC, but the reporting of his words suggests some telecoms journalists have only a tenuous understanding of security risks.

When seeking to reduce crime, the content of a message is as important as the security surrounding that message.

If security and innovation were driven by empty talk then the EU would be the world leaders they pretend to be.

More and more experts have pointed out the flaws in risk matrices, also known as heat maps. Telcos should have adopted better ways of presenting and ranking risks by now.

Absurdly exaggerated statistics are more likely to damage professional credibility than increase vendor sales.

Vodacom has pursued its investigation for years but none of its employees have been arrested.

Spotify refuse to comment about whether they paid musicians whose songs were only played because user playlists had been hacked.

Operators in the Telenor and Orange groups have been warning customers about wangiri.

Californian prosecutors will send a SIM swapper to prison whilst New York launches its first SIM swap prosecution.

A lousy journalist pieced together half-truths about social media and privacy in the hope of sustaining the UK's SIM swap panic.