Risk, Fraud & Security
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...
Can ‘Social’ Networking be the “New Age” Official Communication System
Here is an interesting article on ‘death of email’. It argues Social Media based communication systems are growing and far more effective than emails....
Should Telecom Companies become ‘Charitable’ Organizations?
Imagine a day when we wake up to find that the phones (mobile, satellite phones, landlines et al) and internet (any form of ‘online’...
Cloud Risk: Excellent New Paper
Hats off to Rufus Roberts of Praesidium, for authoring a new paper that succinctly but comprehensively explains the risk dynamics of the cloud. ...
Mobile Malware and Crowdsourcing
In a recent post at Connected Planet, Alex Leslie points out how smartphone owners are at risk from a variant of the classic PC...
Unrealistic Optimism: blame your brain
It is official - scientists have found an explanation for why most people are over-optimistic. In a previous blog, I talked about the...
Tech Journalist Blasts Boards for Risk Failures
In a recent opinion piece, veteran journalist Mary Jander lambasted the boards of technology firms for not overseeing the risks taken by their companies....
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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