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The Weekly Round-Up: 27.02.09
Round-Up It's somewhat ironic that the man who established the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, which was launched to fight e-crime, was targeted by fraudsters. As the world plunges deeper and deeper... [27 Feb 2009]
eBay: e-crime cops latest recruit
News The UK's new e-crime unit is already collecting criminal intelligence reports from eBay in an effort to help stamp out fraud and data theft targeting the auctioneer.eBay is feeding information on... [25 Feb 2009]
£800: How much SMEs will lose to cybercrime
News Cybercrime remains a relatively minor threat for small businesses - accounting for a fraction of the thousands of pounds that crime as a whole costs SMEs each year. A survey published by the Federation of Small... [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. Both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties have attacked the UK... [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 UK's new cyber crime unit has been tasked with protecting the London 2012 Games from hackers and online criminals. The Police Central E-Crime Unit (PCeU) is in talks with Atos Origin... [13 Jan 2009]
PC breathalysers, green Linux and offshore pretenders
News During December, silicon.com took a look at high-tech crime starting with a story about how UK police are one day hoping to develop a 'breathalyser'-type device for PCs. UK police: 'We need crime... [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 Both PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and security vendor Finjan are forecasting that the recession will fuel a significant rise in insider fraud and cyber crime in 2009. A PwC forensic expert claims the financial services... [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 Europe is to get a cyber crime alert system as part of an EU drive to fight online criminals. Europol, the European law enforcement body, is to get €300,000 to build the alert system to pool reports of cyber... [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]
