e-crime cyber security
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet There are a number of other bodies that are charged with tackling cybercrime of different sorts: for example, the government's mooted Office of Cyber Security (OCS), which will protect Britain's IT... [20 Jul 2009]
BitDefender Lab Publishes First E-Threats Landscape Report
White Paper BitDefender's security experts analyzed and examined the menaces of the first half of 2008, focusing on software vulnerabilities and exploits, different types of malware, as well as countermeasures,... [29 Jun 2009]
Britain to get official cyber attack dogs
News The UK government has announced that it is to form a cyber security agency, one of whose functions will be to develop a cyber attack capability. The Office of Cyber... [25 Jun 2009]
London Olympics cyber cops hit the ground running
News The UK's new cyber crime unit has been tasked with protecting the London 2012 Games from hackers and online criminals. The Police Central E-Crime Unit (PCeU) is in talks... [13 Jan 2009]
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 recent report by... [11 Dec 2008]
Help us find the fraudsters, police ask business
News A report by security vendor McAfee also found that there is a risk that cyber crime may further slow the speed of UK economic recovery and McMurdie echoed concerns that a failure to... [10 Dec 2008]
UK consumers worth £14k each to cyber criminals
News It echoes a recent report by the Corporate IT Forum that found 65 per cent of UK businesses had seen a rise in cyber attacks such as distributed denial of service assaults or malware infections. The value of the average... [17 Nov 2008]
Cops enlist HAL in fight against crime
News Looking at how AI techniques can boost digital forensics, the government-funded Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) will examine the potential use of AI in web counter-terrorism surveillance,... [05 Nov 2008]
UK Plc feels abandoned to cyber crime onslaught
News The majority of UK businesses, 65 per cent, have seen an increase in cyber crime attacks, with a quarter having suffered a DDoS attack or had their corporate systems infected by malware, the Corporate IT... [03 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. Security from A to Z Cloud... [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... [30 Oct 2008]
Cyber crime ring stung by police raid
News The forum, described by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) as "one of the most pernicious online criminal forums in the world", enabled participants to buy and sell personal data, and trade in equipment used in... [17 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]
'Broken: E-crime policing in the UK'
News Early priorities are likely to be securing a central contact for reporting all cyber crime, a charter of security responsibilities for industry - from ISPs to software vendors, the... [15 Sep 2008]
Email and web snoop plans slammed - again
News UK security chief at Microsoft and former top cyber security agent for the FBI in the UK Ed Gibson raised similar concerns about the scale of the proposals. According to consultation... [04 Sep 2008]
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