Risk, Fraud & Security

The educational accomplishments of young Asians and the size of Asian telcos suggest Asia has the potential to use data science to generate superior returns on telecoms investment.

Dave Morrow believes the UK police underestimate the scale of telecoms fraud.

Telcos may never eliminate bribery and corruption, but they will not pay such huge fines if they take simple steps to discourage unethical behavior.

Any business that automatically generates a phone call, even if it is designed to verify a customer, must be wary of PRS fraud.

Criminals who exploit mistakes made by telcos can still be guilty of a crime.

Hungry telcos will drive the development of RAFM toward the scientific management of risk. Do North American telcos have the appetite to lead, or will change come elsewhere?

The UK could set a global precedent by using the Proceeds of Crime Act to confiscate money made from telecoms fraud, but only if telcos show their support.

Kaspersky Labs have published their Threat Intelligence Report for the Telecommunications Industry.

The FBI discovered the criminal had over 80 cloned phones at his home, which he used to make calls to the Caribbean.

Many vulnerabilities derived from SS7 can be exploited by mobile malware in order to abuse VoLTE.

Transit traffic for sales tax fraud has moved from the UK to Spain and Italy because of changes made by the UK tax authority.

Arguments about the word 'money' should matter to comms companies that enable the transfer of Bitcoins.