UK Adopts New Rules to Stop CLI Spoofing but Not STIR/SHAKEN
Like other countries, the UK is taking an Australian-style approach to nuisance calls in preference to the faltering strategy of the USA.
UK Trial Suggests Customers See No Benefit in Switch from PSTN to VoIP
Landlines may be turning more digital but the process of cleaning up after an engineer remains stubbornly analog.
PayPal Says Plan to Fine Customers for Exercising Free Speech Was an ‘Error’
PayPal wrote a policy allowing them to take USD2,500 from the accounts of customers deemed guilty of ‘promoting misinformation’.
London Thief Exploits Yet Another Flaw with SMS OTPs
A serial criminal is taking phones from gym lockers and using them to remove thousands of pounds from bank accounts.
Ex-MI6 Spy Chief Says His Emails Were Hacked; Warns Against Simplistic Interpretation of Russia’s Methods
Russian disinformation portrayed Richard Dearlove as a leader of a pro-Brexit group that has overthrown the UK government.
Probe into BT Investor Reveals More about Government than Security
Patrick Drahi, billionaire owner of Altice, will know national security can be a euphemism for safeguarding government investments.
Why Does Mental Health Stop Mattering When the Bill Comes from the BBC?
Rules that stop UK comms providers intimidating vulnerable people are set aside when the BBC collects money.
LAPSUS$ Ransom Gang Proves It Is Easier to Hack People than Computers
The arrest of an English teenager who offered $20,000 bribes to big telco insiders shows security paradigms do not fit the facts.
UK Regulator Delays STIR/SHAKEN Decision; Pretends to Launch an Anti-Scam ‘Crackdown’
37 pages of Ofcom waffle could have been reduced to a few sentences saying they hope somebody else will tell them what to do.
Why Are US Child Abuse Stats Used In a UK Government Campaign Against E2E Comms Encryption?
Serious policy goals like child protection deserve a serious commitment to objective facts.