Risk, Fraud & Security
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 Economist on Huawei and Security
An excellent article in The Economist describes the security fears prompted by Chinese telecoms manufacturer Huawei; see here. Chinese hackers are relentlessly pursuing...
Content is King!…. but would telcos get a share of the pie??
It is not a new phenomenon to hear 'Content is King'; but what is valuable content and what is not, especially when it comes...
FCC Targets $200M of Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Free Phone Program
Government subsidies paid under the 'Lifeline' program are routinely abused.
Measure Your Personal Risk Intelligence
Dylan Evans is a psychologist with an interest in evaluating risk intelligence - how well (or how poorly) people calculate risk based on their...
Stop Fraud, Look Smart, Listen to Staff
Communications providers have a distinctive risk profile. They make big, long term investments in technology whilst generating revenue from lots of microtransactions. ...
Information Risk Forecast: Raining Nonsense
It is possible that Vishwa Bandhu Gupta, formerly an officer in India's Internal Revenue Service, wants to explain information risks using some pretty odd...
Google Takes a Stand on State Cyberattacks
Can private enterprise step into the digital crossfire when agents of a state conduct cyberattacks? Per Google, the answer is yes. Google...
Superb Overview of International Gateway Monitoring in Ghana
Once in a while you find a needle in the interweb haystack of news, information, misinformation and comment. Recently talkRA has been highlighting...
Telco Offers $25k Reward in Response to Copper Theft
Customers of Windstream Communications were left without service for hours after copper thieves stole cables in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA. The rising number...
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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