e-crime
RSS e-crimeUK 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]
Cops enlist HAL in fight against crime
News Artificial intelligence is being prepared to serve on the front line of UK policing. Looking at how AI techniques can boost digital forensics, the government-funded Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) will examine the... [05 Nov 2008]
UK Plc feels abandoned to cyber crime onslaught
News The majority of UK businesses, 65 per cent, have seen an increase in cyber crime attacks, with a quarter having suffered a DDoS attack or had their corporate systems infected by malware, the Corporate IT Forum (Tif)... [03 Nov 2008]
Cyber crime heads to the cloud
News Fraud-as-a-service is opening up computer crime to people with no technical expertise warned Uri Rivner, head of new technology at security company RSA. Cloud computing crimeware means networks of zombie machines can be... [31 Oct 2008]
UK struck by cyber crime wave
News The UK is suffering a cyber crime wave that has seen online financial fraud jump 20 per cent, according to a new report. Reports of cyber crime in the UK rose nine per cent over 2007, according to the UK... [30 Oct 2008]
Banks beef up security for online banking
News Speaking at the RSA Conference 2008 in London, Mark Stanhope, senior manager for e-crime at Lloyds TSB, said the bank now worked under the assumption "that the vast majority of home machines are... [29 Oct 2008]
€100m Pink Panther robbers snared by fingerprints
News The database can be accessed by every one of its 187 member countries, down to the level of the officer on the street, and has prints from 750 crime scenes. Prints taken following an arrest in Monaco this month matched... [22 Oct 2008]
Cyber crime ring stung by police raid
News The forum, described by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) as "one of the most pernicious online criminal forums in the world", enabled participants to buy and sell personal data, and trade in equipment used in... [17 Oct 2008]
World Bank hit by cyber intrusion epidemic?
News The World Bank Group was first notified of the intrusions by the FBI in September 2007, when the bureau was investigating another cyber crime case involving transactions out of Johannesburg, South Africa. [13 Oct 2008]
Lords to debate security progress of "wild west" web
News The initial inquiry found that public confidence in the internet was in danger of being undermined by online fraud and other e-crime, and called the web a "wild west" where people had to fend for... [06 Oct 2008]
Police fraud centre ready for takeoff
News Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie of the Metropolitan Police Service, one of the architects of the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), has revealed pilots for the National Fraud Reporting Centre... [02 Oct 2008]
Do you have what it takes to be an e-caped crusader?
News Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie of the Metropolitan Police Service - one of the architects of the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) announced today - has proposed recruiting individuals from... [01 Oct 2008]
Can £7m dent £105bn cyber crime menace?
News British business has questioned how a newly created £7m police unit will help tackle a global cyber crime industry estimated to be worth £105bn. From spring 2009 the Police Central... [01 Oct 2008]
One million ID cards every year from 2009
News We all want to see our borders more secure and human trafficking, benefit fraud and immigration crime tackled. Smith was speaking at an event in London today where she revealed the design of the card for the first time. [25 Sep 2008]
