The first episode in the second series of The Communications Risk Show begins with a review of dramatic news stories that affected the communications industry during the break between seasons. And there has been a lot of drama! Examples include: Ireland rejecting STIR/SHAKEN; Ukraine police claiming to have confiscated hundreds of simboxes used to distribute propaganda; the hacking of cloud servers used by a Russian satellite comms provider; the US Cyber Safety Review Board wanting an ‘urgent’ transition away from sending passwords by SMS and voice; India launching a powerful unified consumer consent system for telemarketing; security vulnerabilities found in a comms system used by police forces worldwide; big analytics firms denounced for profiting from inaccurate call labels; opposition to a UK law that would interfere with end-to-end encryption; China accused of using eSIMs to secretly track the movements of the British Primeminister’s car; Islamists launching denial of service attacks on networks and mobile money in Nigeria and Kenya; the founder of Global Voice Group being barred from the USA; and a legal complaint from European privacy activists that could prevent US businesses developing databases that record the ‘reputation’ of individual phone numbers. These topics and any questions from the live audience are debated by the show’s three regular presenters, industry analyst Ed Finegold, senior risk executive Lee Scargall, and the Editor of Commsrisk, Eric Priezkalns.