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The Wangiri Fraud That Was Mostly a Billing Error

By Eric Priezkalns 23 Jun 2022 Assurance & Audit

A customer was lured into making an expensive international call but her error was made hundreds of times worse by her telco incorrectly recording the call’s duration.


What the Theft of the Verizon Employee Database Tells Us about Security Threats

By Eric Priezkalns 1 Jun 2022 Privacy & Intellectual Property

The telco played down the importance of the breach whilst the hacker mocked ‘idiot’ employees for believing he was from PC support.


Boeing and Airbus Claim 5G Is a Threat to Plane Safety

By Eric Priezkalns 28 Dec 2021 Risk, Fraud & Security

Demands for last-minute delays to the use of C-band spectrum for 5G can ultimately be blamed on US government infighting.


US Regulator Sides with AT&T and Verizon in Artificial Inflation Case

By Eric Priezkalns 16 Jun 2021 Risk, Fraud & Security

Local exchange carrier Wide Voice has management and ownership in common with other telcos that collectively stimulated access.


Six Takeaways from the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2021

By Eric Priezkalns 10 Jun 2021 Data & Analytics

Never mind somebody else’s fact-free opinions about data security, because here is the leading source of data about data security.


Research Shows Recycling Phone Numbers Threatens Privacy

By Eric Priezkalns 18 May 2021 Privacy & Intellectual Property

Academics from Princeton found more than half the numbers they obtained could be linked to personal data about former users.


RAG TV: Assuring PPV Revenue and Preventing Refiling

By Eric Priezkalns 20 Aug 2020 General

The final episode of RAG TV Season 2 featured two classy communicators: Kathy Romano of global media firm Discovery and Bryan Rowe of innovative fraud developers Six Degrees.


Human Error Blamed for Growing Number of Data Breaches

By Eric Priezkalns 17 Aug 2020 Privacy & Intellectual Property

More data breaches are caused by mistakes than malware, says the Verizon 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report.


How CDR Analysis Caught a Murderer

By Don Reinhart 15 May 2020 Data & Analytics

Gregory Lewis was convicted of kidnapping and murdering an employee of a Verizon store he wanted to rob. His lawyers argued otherwise, but CDRs showed Lewis was at the location of each crime.


How to Fight Handset Theft, Fraud and Trafficking

By Dan Rawlings 28 Nov 2019 Risk, Fraud & Security

Trustonic’s hardware-based security means devices can be remotely locked and unlocked, irrespective of which operator’s network they are connected to.


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RAG RAFMCS Survey Results

Watch Eric Priezkalns give his summary of the largest ever survey of revenue assurance, fraud management and cybersecurity (RAFMCS) pros working for communications providers worldwide.

 

Recent Comments

  • Eric Priezkalns Eric Priezkalns 20 Jun 2022
    New Data Shows Big Flaw in STIR/SHAKEN Is Now Even Worse
    You don't need to apologize, Dennis. The only person who was pedantic about the word 'authentication' was me. But I have reason to be pedantic as there is confusion between how the word is used by a...
  • Dennis Dupont Dennis Dupont 20 Jun 2022
    New Data Shows Big Flaw in STIR/SHAKEN Is Now Even Worse
    Sorry if I was being pedantic about that one word. I have been in the business of reading and implementing specs, so I may get hung up on them. Either way I think we have converged onto the root of...

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