crime
RSS crimeeLENS: 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]
Phishing, Pharming, and Vishing, Oh My! a Guide to the "INGs" and How to Remain Protected
White Paper This new flaw is just another threat organizations face in the uphill battle against computer crime. More recently, a New York Times article highlighted the flaw and the resulting leaks in the "Cobbled-together patch. [01 Jul 2009]
Taking Security to the Next Level
White Paper Microsoft Corp.s most recent Security Intelligence Report (SIR), a comprehensive analysis of the threat landscape has pointed to new trends in cyber crime. The purpose of the six-monthly report is to keep customers... [30 Jun 2009]
BitDefender Lab Publishes First E-Threats Landscape Report
White Paper BitDefender's security experts analyzed and examined the menaces of the first half of 2008, focusing on software vulnerabilities and exploits, different types of malware, as well as countermeasures, cyber crime... [30 Jun 2009]
Britain to get official cyber attack dogs
News The office will pool intelligence capabilities from MI5, MI6, the Ministry of Defence, the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit, and the Serious Organised Crime Agency. The Office of Cyber Security... [25 Jun 2009]
Net of the Living Dead: Bots, Botnets and Zombies
White Paper Organized crime long ago discovered the Internet's profit potential, and has succeeded not only in recruiting the necessary expertise to exploit that potential, but in capturing and subverting a significant quantity of... [20 Jun 2009]
From Fun to Profit: The Evolution of Malware
White Paper Digital threats have evolved from a bizarre hobby for computer geeks into a huge source of profit for organized cyber-crime. From a technical point of view, malware has diversified to enable pursuit of a wide variety of... [20 Jun 2009]
Web snooping plans unworkable, say critics
News Communications data plays a vital role in tackling serious crimes such as child sex abuse, kidnap, murder and drug related crime, as well as in public protection," the Home Office said in a statement. [18 Jun 2009]
