Good vibrations?
Mobile music: Is everybody dancing to the same tune?
Issue 114 September 2004
Featuring:
M-content: Features, interviews and news from the mobile content arena
Emerging infrastructure vendors. Can the new breed threaten the incumbents?
Operators losing millions to spam, claims ex-GCHQ official
Operators stand to lose between $1m to $2m over a one to three day period, as a result of fraudulent SMS campaigns, according to an ex-GCHQ official. Gareth Maclachlan, now COO at Adaptive Mobile, a firm he co-founded, said that cyber-criminals have been carrying out spam and phishing campaigns in the PC/fixed-line internet world for years, but are seeing even bigger opportunities by targeting mobile operators, due to the way the mobile ecosystem is set up.
Ariad Next: Beating fraud
Marc Norlain, CEO & co-founder of Ariad Next, talks to telecoms.com about the growing threat operators face in terms of fraud at the point of sale and how to combat it. By removing much of the paper-based subscription process, Norlain describes an additional benefit in terms of cost saving.
Twitter snaps up security specialist
Social site Twitter has acquired a small mobile security firm specialising in secure tools for Android. The purchase seems a strange fit but it has been suggested that the talent that comes with the company is what Twitter is really after.
Vodafone among sites targeted in hacking attacks
A number of high-profile websites were hacked on Sunday by a Turkish hacking group TurkGuvenligi, who have described the 4th of September as ‘World Hackers Day’.
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