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100 dodgy football ticket sellers shut down by cybercops
News The government's newly-created Police Central e-crime Unit has announced a new assault on dodgy online ticket sellers. The unit announced on Friday that it had shut down over 100 websites suspected of selling "fraudulent... [10 Aug 2009]
Photos: Windows 7 - How it will look on your desktop, part 2
Photo The new version of Windows Media Player that ships with Windows 7 is such a drastic improvement, it's almost a crime to associate it with its predecessors. With Windows 7 now released to manufacture, silicon.com's sister... [10 Aug 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet The PCeU works with the 43 police forces in England and Wales to support them in tackling online crime, including helping to set up regional cybercrime units that will provide expertise and tools for local investigations. [20 Jul 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Open info for all?
Comment And I'm not talking expense claims and petty crime here but things like national infrastructure and sensitive data. Compiled on TG409 flying Bangkok to Singapore and dispatched to silicon.com via a hotel wi-fi connection... [20 Jul 2009]
Bill Gates: 'We're going to make the cows that don't fart'
Comment But I always had in the back of my mind that it was kind of a crime that there wasn't broad availability of those things, particularly for young people thinking about science. It's been a year since Bill Gates left... [16 Jul 2009]
Soca's cybercrime cops score 21 convictions
News In response to a written parliamentary question this week, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said from April 2006 until March 2009 the e-crime unit of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) was involved in... [15 Jul 2009]
The Internet: Where Did IT All Go Wrong?
White Paper It's hard to imagine life today without all of problems that the Internet has introduced: phishing attacks, cyber-bullying, data theft on a scale never before imagined, spam, distributed denial-of-service attacks, ransomware, spyware,... [14 Jul 2009]
eLENS: The Emergent Law Enforcement Network Security Initiative - Bridging the Gaps in eCrime Data Sharing
White Paper The eLENS framework provides a mechanism for proactively achieving the common goals of reduced crime and increased security. As the Internet provides the communication artery for government, commerce, and society,... [14 Jul 2009]
£24m: The cost of tracking your emails and phone calls
News Home Office policing and security minister, David Hanson, told Parliament last week that millions are now being spent to fund ISPs', telcos' and mobile operators' retention of communications data under the European Data Retention... [13 Jul 2009]
Data moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
News The days of tracking down software counterfeiters in other countries who are selling pirated CDs are numbered as companies increasingly distribute software and store data online via hosted computing services, Matthew Parrella, an... [13 Jul 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment It flows around it, you have to protect and guard it very carefully but you also have to share it, because sharing it also helps to protect the public, such as information on people coming in and out of the country and giving police... [10 Jul 2009]
Labour politician joins calls to scrap ID cards
News Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling poured scorn on the idea that a voluntary card would be any use in combating crime and terrorism. The government has defended itself against fresh calls to drop its troubled ID cards... [07 Jul 2009]
Apple bonanza, crime breathalysers and broadband tax
News Meanwhile, the Association of Chief Police Officers revealed that its e-crime group was in discussions to deploy PC crime 'breathalysers' which can detect evidence of illegal activity on PCs. June was a... [02 Jul 2009]
ID cards: 'A project nobody wants and the nation can't afford'
News The Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary, Chris Huhne, said that the "expensive and intrusive plans should be ditched now" with the money being spent on something that could actually fight crime and terrorism such as... [01 Jul 2009]
SAFE Overview
White Paper The fast proliferation of botnets, the increasing sophistication of network attacks, the alarming growth of Internet-based organized crime and espionage, identity and data theft, more innovative insider attacks, and... [01 Jul 2009]
