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Police Find SMS Blaster That Sent a Million Smishing Messages in 3 Days
Also in the news: Indian minister reports success with coordinated blocking of spoofed mobile numbers; Danish Navy detains Chinese ship after Baltic submarine cables were cut; SIM swap syndicate busted in South Africa; and what an AI grandma tells us about confused priorities.
AI Grandmother Demonstrates Differences in the Awareness of Fraud
News journalists recycled a marketing stunt whilst missing a more important story about a telco demanding more police to fight fraud.
First Speakers Confirmed for RAG London 2021
Leading experts from Telefónica, BT, Inmarsat, Virgin Media and Vodafone have already committed to participating in RAG's first post-lockdown conference.
Over 10,000 Views for RAG TV’s Weekly Interview Show
Moly McMillan spun the stories as we talked about revenue assurance in cable companies, mobile operators and OTT providers for episode 8 of the current season.
$200mn Settlement for Telco That Took Government Subsidies for 885,000 Ineligible Customers
T-Mobile USA will pay the FCC's largest fixed-amount civil penalty as redress for Sprint wrongly claiming Lifeline payments.
Virgin Media’s Data Breach Shows Why Risk Silos Fail
CEO Lutz Schüler and his team tried to shift the blame to a single employee, but the real blame for a breach that impacts 900,000 customers lies in the failure to unify the management of risk.
Putting the ‘Fib’ in Fibre: Vodafone UK Called Out for ‘Gigafast’ Product
The UK's Advertising Standards Agency does not consistently handle misleading claims about broadband speed.
Why Do UK Telcos Keep Being Fined for Overcharges?
We must remember mistakes to learn from them, but charging errors by Virgin Media and EE show our industry is forgetful.
Virgin Router Password Fuss Shows Lack of Priorities
The problem with risk management is the tendency to do nothing useful for a long time, before suddenly deciding to panic.
Who Owns Fraud Risk for the New Dumb Pipe?
Telcos are starting to provide free services to better compete with OTT providers and retain market share. But have they considered that free services still generate fraud leaks?
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