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Police launch £1bn-worth of e-crime investigations
News A tranche of specialist policing units, including the National Lead Police Force for Fraud, are now focusing on collating reports and co-ordinating investigations into cybercrime nationwide - among them, the National... [25 Mar 2009]
Police fraud centre ready for takeoff
News Alongside this reporting structure will be a National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, which is also in development. McMurdie added the Bureau is deciding what data fields it will collate and... [02 Oct 2008]
Inlichtingenbureau: Netherlands Information Bureau
White Paper The presenter of this webcast explains how a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) helped Inlichtingenbureau, Netherlands Information Bureau, a vital government agency not only reduce fraud and costs, but... [03 Nov 2007]
National ID Scheme an "essential defence"
News Byrne outlined several trials, including a joint Identity and Passport Service/Criminal Records Bureau pilot to demonstrate how background checks can be carried out more quickly and securely. Byrne said: "Unless we... [19 Jun 2007]
Google plans click-fraud blockade
News Those companies are working with the Interactive Advertising Bureau and others to establish guidelines for quantifying click fraud. The move is designed to stop rivals from using so called click... [01 Mar 2007]
Google, Yahoo! et al take aim at click fraud
News The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the non-profit Media Rating Council said they are teaming up with Ask.com, Google, LookSmart, Microsoft, Yahoo! After numerous class-action lawsuits and criticism from... [03 Aug 2006]
Debit card fraud spree linked to security breach
News A representative of the FBI's Charlotte bureau, which is overseeing several debit card fraud cases, including those on the West Coast, was unavailable for comment. The Leonminster Police Department has... [08 Mar 2006]
Data negligence suit thrown out of court
News After the theft, Brazos contacted approximately 550,000 of its customers to let them know of the situation and to suggest they place a security alert on their credit bureau files. The judge noted there was no evidence... [15 Feb 2006]
Wal-Mart caught in debit card enquiry?
News The case is being investigated by the FBI and Secret Service, said FBI special agent John Cauthen, who works out of the bureau's Sacramento office. Cauthen said on Friday the FBI is working on a debit-card... [14 Feb 2006]
MasterCard scandal: Worst data theft ever?
News Last week, CitiFinancial said tapes containing unencrypted information on 3.9 million customers were lost by the United Parcel Service while in transit to a credit bureau. The security breach at the company was... [20 Jun 2005]
Liberty Alliance pursues identity theft
News Last week, CitiFinancial said tapes containing unencrypted information on 3.9 million customers were lost by the United Parcel Service while in transit to a credit bureau. Organisations such as the Better Business... [14 Jun 2005]
Microsoft sues 117 phishing websites
News The company and law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, expect to gather more detailed information on the individuals during the discovery period of the cases, which will begin over the... [01 Apr 2005]
ID theft: The real danger is offline
News Losses related to an average case of internet-initiated fraud were $551, compared to $4,543 lost from fraud tracked back to paper statements, according to the 2005 Identity Fraud Survey... [27 Jan 2005]
Inter-jurisdictional Cooperation: A Case Study on Cyber Crime
White Paper General Accounting Office as estimating about 750,000 Internet fraud complaints nationally in 2002, at a loss of over $1 thousand-million. Attorney General Shurtleff quotes the U.S. Shurtleff acknowledges that even one... [02 Dec 2004]
419 scams clean out gullible US victims
News The bureau's Internet Fraud Complaint Centre (IFCC), which launched in May 2000 and is managed in part by the National White Collar Crime Centre (NW3C), said it referred 48,252 complaints out of the... [10 Apr 2003]
