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Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs

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...

Tags: rim, blackberry, nhs, mobile

[15 May 2008]

Are we losing the security war?

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.

Tags: security, e-crime, cyber crime

[29 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'

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...

Tags: file-sharers, home office, women

[17 Apr 2008]

Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?

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...

Tags: online banking, fraud, e-crime

[15 Apr 2008]

People are mugs over identity theft

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...

Tags: social networks, fraud, identity theft, security

[08 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...

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...

Tags: vista, skills, nhs, e-crime

[20 Mar 2008]

Editor's Blog: An everyday tale of e-crime

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.

Tags: crime, police, identity fraud, hacking

[13 Mar 2008]

Why no united front on cyber crime?

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.

Tags: cyber crime, internet, botnets, crime

[27 Feb 2008]

Leader: How to put out the fires of ID fraud

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...

Tags: identity theft, privacy, full disclosure, data

[08 Oct 2007]

Steve Ranger's Notebook: Don't let sleeping data dogs lie

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.

Tags: data theft, data breach, full disclosure, identity theft

[04 Sep 2007]

Leader: Time to rethink cyber crime priorities

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...

Tags: arrest, wi-fi, e-crime, police

[24 Aug 2007]

Editor's Blog: Banking on a hard time over security

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.

Tags: norwich union, halifax, nationwide, e-crime

[27 Mar 2007]

Crime pays - and pays very well in cyberspace

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...

Tags: cyber crime

[07 Mar 2007]

Leader: Are e-petitions good for democracy?

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...

Tags: e-petitions, tony blair

[20 Feb 2007]

Opinion: Why I fear joined-up government

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...

Tags: data privacy, government database

[18 Jan 2007]

Leader: The cure for info overload?

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...

Tags: business intelligence

[29 Nov 2006]

Leader: Unjust extradition laws must be amended

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...

Tags: extradition

[22 Nov 2006]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Why is customer service so hard?

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...

Tags: customer service, crm

[17 Nov 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 10.11.06

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.

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[10 Nov 2006]

Can you trust what you read online?

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.

Tags: tim berners-lee, internet security, phishing, blogs

[08 Nov 2006]

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