Risk, Fraud & Security
Long Prison Sentences for $20M Fraudsters
Prosecutors have succeeded in obtaining long prison sentences for criminals engaged in a USD20M fraud of US telcos including AT&T, Verizon, XO Communications, Excel...
Scary Numbers! or is it??
Reaping benefit of having news feeds from Google on key words, I get to know a lot of publications on revenue management across the...
Seeing the Big Picture for Benefits Analysis
Most of you will have heard of the US Government. As an organization, they are responsible for decisions like how much to spend...
Risk: Not Just Keeping Upside Down
There are two sides to every story, and there are two sides to the story of risk. We like upsides. We do...
Poulos on Security and Neutrality
Tony Poulos, the inimitable 'insider', has written another great blog comparing cybersecurity goals with net neutrality aspirations - and questioning how consistent they are....
To Kick or to be Kicked
Eric’s post on Kicking Risk’s Bottom got me thinking. I am also interested in one angle to this whole bottom-kicking business for very personal...
Kicking Risk’s Bottom
What is the job of a risk manager? Well, it is basically to kick people in the bottom for being careless, before the...
Never Beyond Bias
I have always been preoccupied by bias, but last year I spent a lot more time trying to understand what drives and enables it....
Merry Christmas China… Now Change Your Passwords
The astonishing news from China is that 10% of all Chinese web users had their passwords compromised over the Christmas period. Hackers stole...
Jim DeLoach on Enterprise Risk Management
Normally I spend a lot of time complaining that vendors and consultants talk an awful lot of nonsense about risk management. It is...
Psychometric Tests for Risk Managers
Hats off to risk vendors Active Risk, who are doing some research into an area long neglected. When recruiting, it is important not...
MTN Ghana Blames Airtel for $9M Simbox Fraud
It seems that old pal Nixon Wampamba cannot escape the evils of simboxes. Last December he was in the news after the arrest...
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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