The misuse of Austrian telephone numbers by fraudsters has fallen drastically over the past four months, as the complaints received by the Number Abuse Reporting Office show. The reason for this is apparently the RTR anti-spoofing regulation, which had to be technically implemented by telecom providers...
Insulting, threatening, exposing, harassing - more and more Burgenlanders are suffering from violence that is deliberately carried out via cell phone networks. “The amount of cyber violence is increasing enormously. This is noticeable in our daily work,“ says Alexander Grohs, head of the Neustart association,...
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