Risk, Fraud & Security

The perpetrators gained access after obtaining the passwords and email addresses of 1,827 Vodafone UK customers.

The High Court of South Africa judged that grey routing is not the same as illegal bypass, and that no law may have been broken if the relevant traffic does not terminate in South Africa.

A comic story explores the regulatory priorities of some countries...

The failure to meet a Nigerian security requirement has destroyed 20 percent of the value of MTN Group.

The British fraud specialists are responding to urgent demand from telcos, who are panicked by a surge in voice traffic being redirected to data networks to avoid termination fees.

The UK telco suffered a sustained attack which may have compromised the banking details of all its customers.

Former Vimpelcom Chairman Augie K. Fabela II shares the questions he believes telcos must ask themselves, if they want to be prepared for cyberattacks.

The British supplier of test call generators will also use the money to recruit new developers and expand facilities.

AT&T's report is basic but contains a few interesting nuggets of data. It assumes readers have little understanding of technology, which may make it useful to share with naive executives.

Revector's CEO understands why we should never be complacent about planning for the most basic risks, such as threats of violence from mobsters.

Subex scooped a prize for their fraud management system at the Carrier World Awards 2015.

The USD2bn international MVNO group uses unorthodox methods to deposit cash, but journalists may have trumped up a story fed by competitors Lebara Mobile.