crime
RSS crimeBanks veto online security database
News The two organisations produced the Scotland Yard Computer Crime Guidelines, and planned to establish a database of past hacking attempts to help banks improve security. An attempt by New Scotland Yard and the Centre for... [01 Nov 1998]
UK headmaster in trouble over data protection
News Portsdown Primary School, which has 500 pupils, is an inner city school in a high crime area. The headmaster of a UK primary school in Portsmouth who planned to broadcast video images of the school playground over the... [16 Oct 1998]
Special team to tackle Internet fraud
News An international team of crime busters has been set up to combat Internet fraud. The International Chamber of Commerce's Commercial Crime Bureau is responsible for forming the Cybercrime Unit. Eric... [28 Sep 1998]
UK police and ISPs debate legal access to email
News Police and Internet service providers (ISP) in the UK have started working together to combat crime on the Internet. Private seminars held behind closed doors later this month aim to identify which electronic evidence... [18 Sep 1998]
Police to use virtual reality to steer kids away from crime
News The programme, called VR Crime Conquest, has been distributed on CD ROM to all 350 schools in the Greater Manchester area. It is part of a coordinated effort to make citizens aware of the implications of the... [09 Sep 1998]
Beware the millennium cowboy
Comment Organised crime is moving from construction to high finance, according to the FBI, with banks and insurance companies being the primary targets. The millennium bug is not that disastrous a problem. When it first reared... [03 Sep 1998]
IBM helps Scottish police share knowledge
News The system will be used to organise all firearms, crime, resource and personnel data. Strathclyde Police has chosen IBM's DB2 Universal Database for its corporate information management across eight individual police... [17 Aug 1998]
Y2K bug wards off thieves
News The finding comes from research conducted by insurers Commercial Union and the Thames Valley Police, a force which has been running a campaign - Operation Mousetrap - aimed at deterring professional criminals specialising in computer... [05 Aug 1998]
CityLink to supply London Underground network
News He said: "This will enable us to improve the use of CCTV to help improve on the latest crime figures while also being able to offer mobile phone users the capabilities of using their phones underground. [04 Aug 1998]
In brief: US government bids to stamp out Net fraud
News Having introduced 35 federal law enforcement actions to stop fraud and deception on the Internet, the FTC described online crime as old-fashioned scams dressed up in high-tech garb. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC)... [28 Jul 1998]
Gates extortionist goes to jail
News Sentenced on Friday, Pletcher, of Illinois, USA was also told by US District Judge, Barbara Jacobs Rothstein, to pay $400 (£250) into a crime victims assistance fund and spend three years of his six-year term on... [13 Jul 1998]
In brief: BT helps to cut crime on SouthWest Trains
News Video cameras on all of SouthWest Train's stations will be linked by BT's ISDN2 lines to three control centres, in a bid to cut down on platforms crime. BT is to supply closed circuit television services to SouthWest... [10 Jul 1998]
UK police put handhelds on trial
News Around 3,000 members of Surrey's police force will use mobile computer units to access information to help them solve crime and advise the public. The traditional police officer's notebook is being upgraded to a handheld... [09 Jul 1998]
In brief: ID cards gain European support
News The survey of 1,000 Europeans showed that 54 per cent of people welcomed the idea as opposed to 44 per cent two years ago, while 77 per cent of respondents claimed ID cards would help control crime, in particular... [30 Jun 1998]
