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Mobile M2M connections on the up

News Europe is well on the way to introducing the eCall automatic emergency call system and several Latin American countries are considering mandatory tracking devices on all new cars to combat epidemic vehicle crime.

Tags: ecall, telematics, m2m

[06 May 2008]

PCI Compliance: Low Risk, High Reward

whitepaper In today's economy, the biggest threat to a retailer's reputation is customer identity theft by hackers and ever more sophisticated organized crime attacks. Reputation is the most prized asset for any business.

Tags: security standards

[06 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]

National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year

News A spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said: "A proof-of-concept model is being developed and will be tested from the summer, for six months, with aim to identify what information is not being compared currently and join up information that...

Tags: security, cyber crime, fraud

[28 Apr 2008]

House of Lords backs data loss law change

News Losing personal data took a step closer to becoming a criminal offence after the House of Lords backed a change in the law. Peers supported an amendment to the criminal justice and immigration bill which would make it a criminal offence to...

Tags: data breach, full disclosure, data loss

[28 Apr 2008]

Police e-crime unit set for green light

News The UK's proposed central e-crime police unit is close to securing the necessary government funding to make it a reality, according to one of the architects of the project. We're looking at days rather than months.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown...

Tags: funding, government, police, e-crime

[25 Apr 2008]

FSA warns banks to wise up on security

News Speaking at the FSA annual conference on financial crime, FSA director, financial crime and intelligence division Philip Robinson said: "It is worrying that despite increased public awareness of the impact that identity theft can have on customers...

Tags: fsa, disclosure, bank

[25 Apr 2008]

Mobiles to come under attack from 'bad guys'

News Schmidt also reaffirmed his backing of a central UK e-crime police unit which silicon.com has been campaigning for. Speaking to silicon.com at Infosec 2008 in London, former advisor to the White House on cyber security, Howard Schmidt, said...

Tags: criminals, schmidt, security, sdk

[24 Apr 2008]

Cool tech gets down with the kids

News In this respect, Jones said cyber crime can be a barometer of social dissatisfaction - pointing to illegal music downloads as an example of younger generations' mass dissatisfaction with restrictive digital distribution models.

Tags: ipod, apple, virtual worlds

[23 Apr 2008]

Police Facebook presence strikes privacy chord

News Greater Manchester Police established an application called GMP Updates on Facebook, providing users with crime news, appeals and missing-persons stories. Assistant chief constable, Rob Taylor, said in a statement: "Greater Manchester Police is...

Tags: facebook, privacy, police, submit

[22 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]

UK phishing attacks shoot up 200 per cent

News Apacs said consumers must be vigilant after the number of reported incidents shot up by more than 10,000 during the first quarter of 2008.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit.

Tags: cyber crime, e-crime, phishing

[16 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: Signs of terminal decline at T5?

Comment And check out our interview with the FBI cyber crime chief. It's a small claim to fame, I know, but I was one of the passengers who flew from the newly opened Heathrow Terminal 5 last week - and my luggage even came with me.

Tags: project, t5, ba

[16 Apr 2008]

FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat

Comment The division tackles computer intrusion and cyber crime. Four to five years ago there were several offices that may have had one or two agents tied to a white collar crime squad working cyber crime, now every field office has at least one dedicated...

Tags: security, malware, cyber crime

[15 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. Because most internet crime cases involve misuse of bank accounts and bank or credit cards...

Tags: online banking, fraud, e-crime

[15 Apr 2008]

Thieves foiled by 'phone home' computers

News Alan McInnes, general manager with the Association of Chief Police Officers crime prevention initiatives, told silicon.com the technology will help stamp out computer theft. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: software, police, tracking

[14 Apr 2008]

ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill

News Violent crime has doubled, immigration has tripled and police now spend more time on paper work than patrol. The UK's ID card scheme has helped fuel a 2,000 per cent hike in the cost of Home Office consultants - taking the bill up to £147m last year.

Tags: home office, biometrics, id cards

[11 Apr 2008]

The state of security in carrier service delivery: 2006 survey results

whitepaper Security simply has not been built into IP or wireless communications protocols, and as these new services gain increased adoption, they will become an increasingly attractive target for the cyber-crime organizations currently targeting the data...

Tags: voip - ip telephony, carrier, crime, delivery

[11 Apr 2008]

Hitachi Storage Solutions at Work: South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and the South Carolina Crime Center

whitepaper The South Carolina Computer Crime Center is a cooperative effort between the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), the United States Secret Service, and the FBI. The Crime Center needed to find a way to simplify the management of data...

Tags: storage management, crime, hitachi, carolina

[10 Apr 2008]

Fighting Crime in Germany with Intel Itanium 2 Processor Technology

whitepaper PATBNI needed a standardized and inter-connected customizable information system, with a centralized database. The system would have to offer extremely high performance, delivering the very fastest throughput and response-time.

Tags: x86-standard servers, intel, deployment, connected

[10 Apr 2008]

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