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Tax-refund phishing scams hit an all-time high
News HMRC has also warned that some fraudsters also sell their victims' details on to other criminal gangs. Last month's spike in scam emails may not entirely be due to an increase in criminal activity, however. [16 Oct 2009]
HP TRIM Software Has Major Impact on Record Management at Ministry of Justice
White Paper The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is responsible for the courts, prisons, probation, criminal law and sentencing in England and Wales. Due to changes in legislation the MoJ decided that it needed an Electronic Document and... [22 Jun 2009]
Masters the Four "R"s of Effective Complaint Management
White Paper Office of Inspector General (OIG) needed to streamline the complaint management process, ensure timely follow-up of responses and provide information to their investigative community across the country to ensure that... [30 Apr 2009]
Girl Guides get e-Bulked up
News Girlguiding UK has become the first user of a new electronic criminal record checking service from the Criminal Records Bureau. The online service is aimed at the organisations which... [20 Apr 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Beware the new phishers
Comment But if you are a criminal then it's all in a day's work, and if you get a hit or two, what then? Oh, on a matter of security: All the original pics (and there were an awful lot) taken during this experiment and the... [01 Mar 2009]
Is that a police station in your pocket?
News Bobbies on the beat can currently access the Police National Computer - which includes criminal record, vehicle, property and driver information - and local force computer systems from their handhelds. [16 Dec 2008]
ID cards 'could replace passports'
News The secondary legislation includes a proposal to designate criminal record's certificate information as part of the National ID register for airside workers at London City and Manchester airports. As a... [21 Nov 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... [29 Apr 2008]
People are mugs over identity theft
Comment If you have ever attempted to report an internet-related crime at your local police station, you can imagine how the civilian assistant - it's unlikely you'll see a police officer - will react to your claiming from behind a reinforced... [08 Apr 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. It reinforces in the mind of the... [12 Mar 2008]
Spiralling costs derail £500m offender-tracking system
News C-Nomis was to have brought together more than 200 prison and probation service databases to allow more than 80,000 criminal justice staff to share up-to-date profiles of offenders. Public sector ICT body Socitm spoke... [09 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...
Comment ID cards-based criminal record checks 'are A-OK' As we saw with yesterday's announcments on phone records, this government wants to track and record every aspect of our lives, and hand... [04 Oct 2007]
ID cards-based criminal record checks 'are A-OK'
News Their criminal record information was then disclosed to the company requesting it. Plans for a new service using the government's controversial ID cards scheme to speed up criminal... [01 Oct 2007]
Police National Computer gets a facelift
News The PNC was established in 1974 and supports the Phoenix national criminal record database, along with other services such as crime pattern analysis and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR). The... [03 Apr 2007]
Electronic Solution Saves Northern Ireland Justice Agencies 6.5 Million Pieces of Paper
White Paper CJOs make some 10,000 criminal record checks a month. Northern Ireland Office wanted to implement electronic information sharing between its six Criminal Justice Organisations (CJOs).... [31 Mar 2007]
