Tag: 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...
Communications Privacy Also Stops Crime
The launch of the Calyx Institute, driven by American privacy campaigner Nicholas Merrill, has prompted a lot of conversation amongst the talkRA authors. ...
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...
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...
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...
An ISP That Wants Privacy to be a USP
Privacy. I like mine. You may have lost yours already. Once lost, privacy is not something you can easily recover. ...
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....
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...
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...
Domain Typos are Security Loopholes
People love finding the complicated ways by which things go wrong. Audacious frauds, complex exploits, elaborate leakages - people love to find them...
Gaping Hole in HTC Android Security
It is getting to the point where smartphone users would be safer binning their radio-enabled computers and just walking around town wearing t-shirts emblazoned...
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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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