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£800: How much SMEs will lose to cybercrime
News More than half of the small businesses questioned by the FSB wanted clearer information about how to report e-crime and 44 per cent wanted a named contact in their local police force. The FSB wants the... [20 Feb 2009]
Police turn to IT industry to help fight cybercrime
News The Metropolitan Police's nascent e-crime unit is stepping up its efforts to communicate with UK businesses, inviting 150 corporate security professionals to a consultation later this month. The Police... [11 Feb 2009]
"We must not allow ourselves to become a Big Brother society"
News The centre will be run by the UK Identity and Passport Service, with input from HMRC, MI5, MI6, the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the police. Already e-Borders has screened over 75 million... [10 Feb 2009]
Credit crunch sees UK firms send techies to cops
News The financial slowdown in the retail, banking and telecoms sectors is expected to see more businesses offer their IT staff rather than money to support the £7m Police Central E-crime Unit (PCeU),... [19 Jan 2009]
London Olympics cyber cops hit the ground running
News The Police Central E-Crime Unit (PCeU) is in talks with Atos Origin and other IT suppliers to the London 2012 Games to secure the Games' IT backbone, which will support 1,000 servers and 10,000 PCs as... [13 Jan 2009]
PC breathalysers, green Linux and offshore pretenders
News Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie, architect of the UK's Police Central E-crime Unit outlined the idea in an interview with silicon.com, saying: "Do we need to seize five computers in a suspect's... [18 Dec 2008]
Is that a police station in your pocket?
News I would say that we are about two or three years away from that - all we need to do is to agree where our priorities are and discover those killer applications," he told silicon.com.silicon.com's e-Crime... [16 Dec 2008]
UK police: 'We need crime breathalysers for PCs'
News Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie, architect of the UK's Police Central E-crime Unit (PCeU), said frontline police ideally need a digital forensic tool as easy to use as the breathalyser, to help... [11 Dec 2008]
Jobless techies turning to crime
News A PwC forensic expert claims the financial services sector is already investigating a rising number of staff frauds, while Finjan cites evidence of a trend in 2008 for unemployed IT staff in Eastern Europe and Asia using crimeware... [11 Dec 2008]
Help us find the fraudsters, police ask business
News The UK's new e-crime unit wants industry to help out in the battle against online fraud. Police are now in talks with the CBI and other industry bodies about using online investigators at banks and... [10 Dec 2008]
Europe to get cyber crime alert system
News The strategy, a blueprint for fighting cyber crime in the EU over the next five years, also introduces measures to encourage business and the police to work closer together in sharing information on investigations and... [28 Nov 2008]
Inbox: Brits baying for blood over ID
Comment So get ready for more "it's to stop crime/terrorism/stealing from you/harm to the kiddies" fear making announcements from the Home Secretary designed to stop you trusting anyone but the government. For example, if a bank... [24 Nov 2008]
£25m for Queen's fight against e-crime
News Queen's University Belfast has landed £25m to set up a new centre to combat online crime. The 'innovation and knowledge centre', which will go by the name of Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), will be... [21 Nov 2008]
UK consumers worth £14k each to cyber criminals
News The value of the average UK person's salary and credit card details to online fraudsters was revealed in the 2008 report by the secure computing initiative Get Safe Online (GSO), whose members include HSBC, Microsoft and the Serious... [17 Nov 2008]
MPs demand more cash for e-crime battle
News MPs have called for more money to fund a new e-crime unit and end the image the UK is a "soft touch" on cybercrime. In a parliamentary debate on internet fraud today, MPs said the government needs to... [05 Nov 2008]
