e-crime
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News E-crime victims in the UK are confused as to where they should report such crimes. According to a report by the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), the UK lacks a central reporting point for... [28 Aug 2009]
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. The unit announced on Friday that it had shut down over 100 websites suspected of... [10 Aug 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet The PCeU works with the 43 police forces in England and Wales to support them in tackling online crime, including helping to set up regional cybercrime units that will provide expertise and tools for local investigations. [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]
Apple bonanza, crime breathalysers and broadband tax
News Meanwhile, the Association of Chief Police Officers revealed that its e-crime group was in discussions to deploy PC crime 'breathalysers' which can detect evidence of illegal activity on... [02 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, cyber crime... [29 Jun 2009]
Britain to get official cyber attack dogs
News The office will pool intelligence capabilities from MI5, MI6, the Ministry of Defence, the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit, and the Serious Organised Crime Agency. The Office of... [25 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo In response the Home Office has proposed it will delete the profiles of those arrested but not convicted of a serious violent or sexual crime after 12 years and delete the profiles of anyone arrested but not convicted... [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 material of interest. [03 Jun 2009]
Soca socking it to the cyber criminals
News The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) has revealed some of its crime fighting successes over the last year. Soca's annual report, published yesterday, details a year of fighting... [14 May 2009]
Copyright holders 'smiling' at sinking of Pirate Bay
News They should go out and find a new business model, one that doesn't involve profiting from stolen property.What everybody who steals music should realise is that e-looting is not a victimless crime. Both... [20 Apr 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 Police Force for... [25 Mar 2009]
Facebook slams gov't snooping plans
News Kelly spoke to ZDNet UK at the e-Crime Congress in London on Tuesday. Social-networking site Facebook has criticised government suggestions that intelligence services should monitor the web... [25 Mar 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.02.09
Round-Up It's somewhat ironic that the man who established the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, which was launched to fight e-crime, was targeted by fraudsters. As the world plunges deeper and deeper... [27 Feb 2009]
eBay: e-crime cops latest recruit
News The UK's new e-crime unit is already collecting criminal intelligence reports from eBay in an effort to help stamp out fraud and data theft targeting the auctioneer.eBay is feeding information on... [25 Feb 2009]
