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Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ The Naked CIO: Process not bureaucracy ¦ Video: Does the UK need a police e-crime unit? This week, readers get worked up over rude mobile users...
[15 May 2008]
Comment Five years ago, hopes were high that cyber crime could be cracked. A short cyber crime story on Al Jazeera TV on Sunday made me realise that this year's Infosec show in London had passed me by, almost unnoticed.
[29 Apr 2008]
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive ¦ FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat ¦ Peter...
[17 Apr 2008]
Comment Despite the widespread availability of security software and more sophisticated means of tracking and preventing internet fraud, e-crime is still rising. Last December, analyst firm Gartner estimated losses from US phishing attacks at $3.2bn...
[15 Apr 2008]
Comment At last month's e-Crime Congress in London we heard how criminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated in targeting individuals in the lucrative game of identity theft. If you have ever attempted to report an internet-related crime at your local...
[08 Apr 2008]
Comment With most e-crime targeting UK business coming from servers in foreign countries, how does the UK police feel it is able to do this? Businesses may be forced to pay for e-crime police Clamping down on international e-crime needs an international...
[20 Mar 2008]
Comment Is e-crime given the right level of resources? How can a fraudster feel threatened if there is no one you can report his crime to? What it is calling for is a dedicated cyber-crime police unit to lead investigation in this area.
[13 Mar 2008]
Comment Estonian MP Silver Meikar, a member of the country's defence committee, will be describing this attack at the e-Crime Congress. The threat of international and domestic terrorism sucks funds away from the fight against e-crime.
[27 Feb 2008]
Leader Equally, when a crime is committed companies also need to be able to report it to police who will act on the information - although that is a separate issue. And so it's a welcome move that MPs in the All Party Group on Identity Fraud have...
[08 Oct 2007]
Comment Opponents of such a law say it might impede police investigations - but the Californian law allows for notifications to be delayed if crime agencies think disclosure might hamper their attempts to catch the bad guys.
[04 Sep 2007]
Leader Just this month a House of Lords committee urged the government to do more to tackle e-crime - or risk losing public confidence in the security of the internet. And last month, user group The Corporate IT Forum talked of the need for a single...
[24 Aug 2007]
Comment I'm guessing that this afternoon, which sees us sending a staffer to the e-Crime Congress in London, will see a lot more such talk. There have been some interesting stories knocking about on the subject of security, just recently.
[27 Mar 2007]
Comment E-crime has become too great a menace to ignore, says Simon Moores. It's been five years since the first e-Crime Congress and this month leading figures from government, business, finance and law-enforcement will assemble in London once again, to...
[07 Mar 2007]
Leader In it Blair argues ID cards will help secure the UK's borders and tackle fraud, crime and terrorism. It's related to the e-petitions hosted on the PM's Downing Street website, which hit the headlines over the past week when more than 1.5 million...
[20 Feb 2007]
Comment At the forthcoming e-Crime Congress in March, this is a subject which will be examined by Cambridge University professor Ross Anderson and information commissioner Richard Thomas, who has already warned the UK may be "sleepwalking into a...
[18 Jan 2007]
Leader BI is also seen as a way to help organisations fight fraud, e-crime and data theft. Are you suffering from information overload? You're not alone. Top UK IT chiefs say businesses are in danger of drowning in the data they all store - from email to...
[29 Nov 2006]
Leader In this post-Enron era the prosecution and punishment of perpetrators of white collar crime and corporate fraud is something still high on the agenda for the US authorities. E is for Extradition High-profile sentences include 25 years for former...
[22 Nov 2006]
Comment As a citizen, I have many ways of interacting with the public sector: as a user of libraries or recycling services, as a parent, as a patient, as a victim of crime, and so on. More about e-government Communication with customers is so basic - why...
[17 Nov 2006]
Round-Up If we do not use technology in order to combat it, then we will not be fighting crime effectively. So we can be pretty confident he speaks from an informed viewpoint where all this crime-busting tech is concerned.
[10 Nov 2006]
Comment Next year's e-Crime Congress in London will focus on identity theft and the BBC reported this week that phishing has caused a rise in the amount of money lost to online banking fraud in the first half of this year.
[08 Nov 2006]
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