Attackers can force mobile phones to send premium-rate SMS messages or prevent them from receiving messages for long periods of time by leveraging a logic flaw in mobile telecommunication standards.

In an age where true attention has become one of the scarcest commodities in customer engagement, the decades-old SMS channel continues to command exceptionally high open rates and high perceived ...

UltimaSMS leverages at least 151 apps that have been downloaded collectively more than 10 million times, to extort money through a fake premium SMS subscription service. Threat actors are using ...

If advertisers and content providers want to take full advantage of the mobile channel, they need a more appropriate payment mechanism than Premium SMS. Premium SMS has been the primary method used by ...

According to the new Telephia Premium SMS Report, Premium SMS revenues totaled more than $273 million, making up 32 percent of mobile content revenue in Q1 2007. This report includes content purchased ...

Telstra has announced it will act as an advocate for customers upset at receiving unwanted text messages from operators of premium SMS services. The telco said that from mid-May its telephone ...

A heart rate and pulse tracker. A chat translator. A slime simulator. And a fingerprint "defender." Using more than 200 such low-key applications, a cybercriminal group created a platform for ...

Contests incorporated into popular television shows such as "American Idol," "Deal or No Deal," "1 vs. 100" and "The Apprentice" have generated lawsuits by people claiming the contests are illegal ...