criminal cyber crime
Phishing, malware and online fraud is booming
News The UK Threat Assessment of Serious Organised Crime pinpoints a surge in attempts to hijack bank accounts using email phishing and key logging malware.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit. [06 Jun 2008]
Are we losing the security war?
Comment Today, I look at my slide deck from Milan and see that we have entire internet relay chat networks controlled by the criminal underground economy, that cyber crime could be almost as big as the value of the global illegal drug trade - no one... [29 Apr 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment 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 cyber squad. [15 Apr 2008]
Prosecutor's Office Puts Server System on Trial and Cuts Support Costs by at Least 30%
White Paper The Rockingham County Attorney's office prosecutes criminal cases in the county, including cyber infractions, yet the domain controller they were using for day-to-day business was, if not a crime, at least erratic and unpredictable. [24 Mar 2008]
PM to pump cash into security and espionage tech
News Gordon Brown presented the government's National Security Strategy to the House of Commons yesterday, outlining plans designed to improve the UK's response to terrorist and criminal threats, among others. [20 Mar 2008]
Police chief: Cyber crime is everywhere
News The head of e-crime for the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), Sharon Lemon, has warned e-crime is so widespread it now plays a role in nearly every criminal investigation. The unit would provide leadership and expertise to co-ordinate... [19 Mar 2008]
UK Plc calls for national police e-crime force
News A spokeswoman for the FSB said: "The current policing arrangements for dealing with cyber crime are lamentable in that there is no centralised mechanism for dealing specifically with e-crime and there is a huge lack of clarity around which police... [14 Mar 2008]
Police backs calls for e-crime unit
News There has been a substantial rise in the amount of online crime being reported and these are more sophisticated attacks carried out by more organised criminal networks. Leading police officers, global cyber security chiefs and FTSE 100 companies... [12 Mar 2008]
Photos: Viruses and Trojans come to life
Photo The information gathered can then be used for criminal purposes. Security software firm MessageLabs, has turned a number of cyber threats into works of art using the malicious computer code which forms them. [06 Mar 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment The threat of terrorism is soaking up funds badly needed to combat cyber crime. And without the co-operation of Russia and China any anti-cyber crime proposal remains of academic interest only. After all, if the FBI only has a team of 100 officers... [27 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... young and old, clueless managers, life without Facebook
Comment We recently averted acceptance of fraudulent Visa and MasterCard payments by a person pretending to be a travel agent in Glasgow using stolen card details: we reported the crime to Glasgow Police offering to give the perpetrator's identity and... [23 Aug 2007]
Europe wages war on cyber crime
News Europe is stepping up the fight against cyber crime, outlining plans to create more meaningful legislation and promote greater, cross-border co-operation. It said cyber crime comes in three forms: established crimes such as fraud, publication of... [24 May 2007]
Crime pays - and pays very well in cyberspace
Comment In any case, if you happen to be a clever, organised computer criminal indulging in identity theft, the chances of 'doing bird' are low enough to make cyber crime an attractive career option. At the same time, the daily impact from online crime... [07 Mar 2007]
Security 2007: Data theft still the one to watch
News The growth of 'Trojan supermarkets' is also predicted by MessageLabs - in the form of online stores offering everything the modern cyber criminal should ever require at just a few hundred dollars. However, Gartner's Heiser remains unconvinced: "If... [04 Jan 2007]
Gangs groom kids for cyber crime
News Dave Thomas, section chief of the FBI's cyber division, said if people read in the media about other people making a lot of money from cyber crime - and if they have the criminal intent - they may take the same path. [08 Dec 2006]
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