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News A spokeswoman for the FSB said: "The current policing arrangements for dealing with cyber crime are lamentable in that there is no centralised mechanism for dealing specifically with e-crime and there is a huge lack of clarity around which police...
[14 Mar 2008]
News There has been a substantial rise in the amount of online crime being reported and these are more sophisticated attacks carried out by more organised criminal networks. It reinforces in the mind of the criminal that this country is a soft touch and...
[12 Mar 2008]
Case Study The system is also crucial in supporting the Criminal Justice Support Service as it will allow officers to show footage to offenders to prompt early guilty pleas. The trial is funded from the £3m that the Home Office has set aside for camera...
[12 Mar 2008]
News He added that security and Criminal Records Bureau checks carried out with ID cards would be far quicker and easier for the employer and employees. James Hall, director of the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), told silicon.com the revised scheme...
[10 Mar 2008]
Photo The information gathered can then be used for criminal purposes. Security software firm MessageLabs, has turned a number of cyber threats into works of art using the malicious computer code which forms them.
[06 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Organized groups of criminals create the tools and the distribution mechanisms for a wide variety of harmful software that can be used in criminal enterprises. Internet crime is big business. A decade ago, writing harmful software was largely...
[28 Feb 2008]
Comment But elsewhere, under the extreme pressures of criminal interests, new leaks are appearing in the collective firewall. The resulting refinements in criminal techniques have led to the appearance of new tools for launching under-the-radar targeted...
[27 Feb 2008]
whitepaper In an increasingly regulated corporate environment and a generally more litigious world, corporate directors have to be aware of the potential for criminal and civil proceedings from regulatory bodies or shareholder groups if their corporate...
[24 Feb 2008]
News The poll follows on from the HM Revenue & Customs loss in November 2007 of two CDs containing the details of 25 million people and a flurry of reported incidents since.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign recently made a breakthrough when the...
[14 Feb 2008]
News Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has signed a 15-year deal to provide its criminal investigation and detection teams with the Airwave digital radio system. The taxman is spending £60m on a secure communications system to help in its crackdown...
[13 Feb 2008]
whitepaper The Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General manages a broad range of law and public safety responsibilities, including conducting criminal investigations and prosecutions, handling civil litigation on behalf of Commonwealth agencies, and...
[08 Feb 2008]
Comment Seven months after we launched our Full Disclosure campaign calling for a rethink of legislation in this area, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is now asking that knowingly or recklessly breaching the Data Protection Act should be made...
[06 Feb 2008]
News Everyone is now familiar with these 419 scam emails, so called because of the section of the criminal code in Nigeria (where a number of these emails have originated) which deals with fraud. In the first of a new weekly series looking back at the...
[04 Feb 2008]
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is asking that "knowingly or recklessly" breaching the Data Protection Act (DPA) could be made a criminal offence, as part of a series of amendments to the act.
[31 Jan 2008]
News The document said: "The Commissioner is proposing the introduction of a new penalty, limited to breaches that are avoidable, that give rise to a serious data-protection risk and where a criminal state of mind exists.
[31 Jan 2008]
News HM Inspectorate of Court Administration (HMICA) said chief inspector Eddie Bloomfield was looking into the loss but refused to confirm or deny that the missing data included the names and addresses of alleged victims and witnesses in criminal cases.
[23 Jan 2008]
News If Mac users fall for scams that PC users have faced for years, it won't be long before criminal gangs exploit them, say security experts. In the world of desktop security, there are two sides to the equation: criminal ambition versus the number of...
[23 Jan 2008]
News UK police are in talks with the FBI about an international biometric database to track down the world's most wanted criminals and terrorists.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know...
[15 Jan 2008]
News C-Nomis was to have brought together more than 200 prison and probation service databases to allow more than 80,000 criminal justice staff to share up-to-date profiles of offenders. Spiralling costs of a £500m IT system to manage UK offenders have...
[09 Jan 2008]
News The IT industry is divided over whether new laws are needed to make the reckless loss of personal information by public and private sector organisations a criminal offence. The proposals suggesting recklessly or repeatedly mishandling personal...
[04 Jan 2008]
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