e-crime
RSS e-crimeArrested: Suspected Zeus Trojan distributors
News The Metropolitan Police's Central e-Crime Unit arrested two people earlier this month for the suspected criminal distribution of the Zeus Trojan. A spokesman for the Met Police told silicon.com sister... [20 Nov 2009]
Trojan bank fraud gang sentenced
News The convictions of the gang members are the first to come out of an investigation by the Met's Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), the £7m unit set up last year to tackle cybercrime. He failed to appear... [17 Nov 2009]
E-crime victims confused on where to go for help
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 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]
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... [30 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 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 material of interest. [03 Jun 2009]
Soca socking it to the cyber criminals
News Soca's annual report, published yesterday, details a year of fighting e-crime, from leading the UK operation to shut down the online forum DarkMarket and hunting the gang who tried to electronically... [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 During its first year in operation as the National Lead Police Force for Fraud it has hired 50 new investigators and taken on 70 new cases of suspected fraud involving computers, the e-Crime Congress... [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]
