Risk, Fraud & Security

Underestimating the Internet of Things

The 'internet of things' is what we get when we let machines talk to each other. Hoorah! Yippee! Our industry becomes ecstatic at the...

Million-User Android Botnet Found in China

Xinhua has reported the discovery of a trojan that has infected over one million Android smartphones in China. For an English translation of the...

Core Risks for Telcos

Dan Baker recently asked a good question about telecoms risk management:Thanks for this . It’s a very fine explanation for a layman like myself....

Embracing Wrong with Kathryn Schulz

Have you ever seen a business that made a mistake? Duh. Of course. I work in RA/fraud/risk etc. I deal...

Online fraud

I don't think it would be too controversial if I stated that (attempted and successful) incidents of customer / subscription fraud increase as sales...

Blame It On The Boogie: a mystery manager chastises O2 for outages

For the first time, talkRA is publishing an anonymous guest blog. The piece was sent by email using an account called 'RA Manager'....

Prof Stuart Greenbaum Explains ERM

A lot of nonsense is talked about Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). As such, it is always a delight to hear a crisp 20-minute...

New Revenue Protection Service for OTT TV

It is worth remembering that when business models get disrupted, the disciplines embedded in those business models also get disrupted. OTT providers of...

Report Claims Huge Rise in Mobile Fraud Malware

Lookout Mobile Security has issued their 2012 report into the threats they are encountering, and it makes for both uncomfortable and compelling reading. ...

Nigerian Masts Come Under Attack

Nigerian police have been called in to defend mobile phone masts after dozens were destroyed by Islamist militants. You can read the Reuters...

The Folly of Design and the Cracks of Compliance

This time I don’t have much to write on revenue assurance. Thus, I thought it would be good to just look at the related...

Convergence of Assurance and Security

Listeners to our last podcast may have picked up on the panel's views on whether revenue assurance should merge with fraud management. My...

The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard


Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.

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