e-crime computer crime
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... [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)... [15 Jul 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... [03 Jun 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]
eBay: e-crime cops latest recruit
News The centres will be made up of computer crime specialists from local forces and so far the staff set to work for them have been selected in about five regions, according to McMurdie. The UK's new... [25 Feb 2009]
Is that a police station in your pocket?
News I would say that we are about two or three years away from that - all we need to do is to agree where our priorities are and discover those killer applications," he told silicon.com.silicon.com's e-Crime... [16 Dec 2008]
UK police: 'We need crime breathalysers for PCs'
News Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie, architect of the UK's Police Central E-crime Unit (PCeU), said frontline police ideally need a digital forensic tool as easy to use as the breathalyser, to help... [11 Dec 2008]
Jobless techies turning to crime
News Both PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and security vendor Finjan are forecasting that the recession will fuel a significant rise in insider fraud and cyber crime in 2009. A PwC forensic expert claims the financial services... [11 Dec 2008]
Inbox: Brits baying for blood over ID
Comment So get ready for more "it's to stop crime/terrorism/stealing from you/harm to the kiddies" fear making announcements from the Home Secretary designed to stop you trusting anyone but the government. For example, if a bank... [24 Nov 2008]
Cops enlist HAL in fight against crime
News It will also look into how "autonomous agents" or intelligent programs could preserve images of hard drives and pluck out useful information flowing over networks and the use of "serious computer games in information... [05 Nov 2008]
Cyber crime heads to the cloud
News Fraud-as-a-service is opening up computer crime to people with no technical expertise warned Uri Rivner, head of new technology at security company RSA. These networks could be tailored to infect other... [31 Oct 2008]
UK struck by cyber crime wave
News The UK is suffering a cyber crime wave that has seen online financial fraud jump 20 per cent, according to a new report. Reports of cyber crime in the UK rose nine per cent over 2007, according to the UK... [30 Oct 2008]
World Bank hit by cyber intrusion epidemic?
News The World Bank Group was first notified of the intrusions by the FBI in September 2007, when the bureau was investigating another cyber crime case involving transactions out of Johannesburg, South Africa. [13 Oct 2008]
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