computer crime
RSS computer crimePhishers set their sights on corporate accounts
News The FBI is seeing several new victim complaints and cases every week, according to an Internet Crime Complaint Center report. The scammer will typically target the people who handle financial transactions in a company,... [04 Nov 2009]
100 dodgy football ticket sellers shut down by cybercops
News The government's newly-created Police Central e-crime Unit has announced a new assault on dodgy online ticket sellers. It has also been involved in a major investigation to target a group of suspects using a... [10 Aug 2009]
Photos: Windows 7 - How it will look on your desktop, part 2
Photo The new version of Windows Media Player that ships with Windows 7 is such a drastic improvement, it's almost a crime to associate it with its predecessors. To turn off your computer, Microsoft has made... [10 Aug 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet From the end of this year, that sort of thing will be handled by the National Fraud Reporting Centre (NFRC), which will provide a central phone line and web portal for members of the public and businesses to report all fraud, including... [20 Jul 2009]
Soca's cybercrime cops score 21 convictions
News In response to a written parliamentary question this week, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said from April 2006 until March 2009 the e-crime unit of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) was involved in... [15 Jul 2009]
Data moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
News The days of tracking down software counterfeiters in other countries who are selling pirated CDs are numbered as companies increasingly distribute software and store data online via hosted computing services, Matthew Parrella, an... [13 Jul 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment It flows around it, you have to protect and guard it very carefully but you also have to share it, because sharing it also helps to protect the public, such as information on people coming in and out of the country and giving police... [10 Jul 2009]
Phishing, Pharming, and Vishing, Oh My! a Guide to the "INGs" and How to Remain Protected
White Paper This new flaw is just another threat organizations face in the uphill battle against computer crime. According to experts, it's only a matter of time before computer criminals take... [01 Jul 2009]
From Fun to Profit: The Evolution of Malware
White Paper Digital threats have evolved from a bizarre hobby for computer geeks into a huge source of profit for organized cyber-crime. From a technical point of view, malware has diversified to enable pursuit of a... [20 Jun 2009]
Police mobiles cautioned for bad behaviour
News Judson said officers have access to about six police systems from the devices, including the Police National Computer and systems dealing with crime reporting and live incident updates. Police officers... [12 Jun 2009]
Austin Police Department Relies on AMD Technology and Corporate Support to Solve High Tech Crimes
White Paper The High Tech Crime Unit of the Austin, Texas Police Department (APD) resides in a nondescript office building several miles north of downtown. It needed is providing assistance in crime investigations... [12 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo The system will bring together data from five operational areas of policing, custody, crime, intelligence, child abuse and domestic abuse into a central system. In response the Home Office has proposed it will delete... [10 Jun 2009]
Police in talks over PC crime 'breathalysers' rollout
News Officers in the Association of Chief Police Officers' (Acpo) e-crime group are looking into commercial devices that can search text, pictures and computer code on a hard disk for material of interest. [03 Jun 2009]
End Point Security Strategy
White Paper In the 2006 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, 72% of the respondents have experienced computer security incidents. Networks once only existed in large enterprise and government... [17 May 2009]
Police launch £1bn-worth of e-crime investigations
News The City of London Police (Colp) force has launched £1bn-worth of computer crime investigations over the last year, it was revealed this week. During its first year in operation as the National Lead... [25 Mar 2009]
