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€100m Pink Panther robbers snared by fingerprints
News Fingerprint technology is helping Interpol crack a notorious gang of jewel thieves dubbed the Pink Panthers - thought to have snared €100m from daring heists worldwide. Two individuals suspected of being members of the... [22 Oct 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment After all, if the FBI only has a team of 100 officers to deal with all cyber crime offences and Interpol has perhaps only three for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the level of priority and the scale of the challenge... [27 Feb 2008]
Analysis: How to catch a cyber criminal? Do it yourself
Comment Initiated by Microsoft in 2004, it now has the support of Interpol and acts as a means of building awareness and providing training for law enforcement. Though law enforcement has come a long way in fighting e-crime, its... [24 Apr 2006]
Why does phishing work?
News Speaking at the E-Crime Congress in London last week, Bernhard Otupal, a crime intelligence officer for high-tech crime at Interpol, said consumers are not only still falling for this kind scam in large numbers but... [03 Apr 2006]
Yahoo!: 'We need new cybercrime laws'
News An representative from Interpol, a police organisation that facilitates data sharing between forces to catch criminals, agreed that over-legislation would not solve international cybercrime problems but called for a... [03 Apr 2006]
Interpol demands secure PCs
News Bernhard Otupal, a crime intelligence officer for financial and high-tech crime at Interpol, said: "I would like to see boxes with operating systems sold with complete pre-installed security systems. Computers should... [31 Mar 2006]
Interpol: Politicians failing to tackle phishing
News Police forces around the world are being starved of financial and human resources to fight a growing number of crimes on the internet, Interpol has said. Speaking on Monday at an anti-phishing conference in Brussels,... [21 Mar 2006]
Microsoft virus 'bounty hunter' warns of never-ending battle
News Former police officer Paul Thomas, head of Microsoft's European internet safety and IP investigations team, heads up a unit made up of ex-Interpol and ex-US secret service agents, prosecutors and IT forensics experts... [01 Mar 2006]
Banks face prosecution over Indian call centre leak
News Detective Inspector Oliver Shaw of the economic crime unit at City of London Police said in a statement: "Unfortunately we have no jurisdiction to prosecute in the UK so we have passed it through Interpol to the Indian... [23 Jun 2005]
Leader: Cyber-terror... who do you believe?
Leader Today we have heard of a plan to launch a World Security Organisation which will be "bigger than Interpol" and "more effective than the World Health Organisation". We await news as to how. But all will apparently become... [09 Feb 2005]
Cyber-terror plan panned as "barmy"
News Among the proposals he will present are the creation of "a global collaborative venture more powerful than Interpol" as well as plans to "reduce poverty levels in deprived areas from where radicals and organised crime... [09 Feb 2005]
UK police set up anti-paedophile website
News The UK's National Crime Squad has led the initiative with Interpol and its counterparts in Australia, Canada and the US. Police from the UK, Canada, Australia and the US have launched a "one-stop shop" website for... [27 Jan 2005]
Police set web trap to net paedophiles
News The operation was originally developed by West Midlands Police and has been expanded as part of a 'Virtual Global Task Force' headed up by the UK's National Crime Squad along with the FBI, Interpol and police forces in... [18 Dec 2003]
EC approves European cybercrime squad
News The EC has given the go-ahead to setting up a pan-European cybercrime think tank, designed to help police forces across the continent co-ordinate their efforts. The Brussels-based agency will go by the name of the European Network and... [24 Nov 2003]
Virus crackdown: Microsoft sends out the bounty hunters
News The reward, confirmed by sources in both the security industry and in law enforcement, will be announced in a joint press conference with the FBI, the US Secret Service and Interpol that's scheduled for 10:00(EST) today. [05 Nov 2003]
