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News Soca has also sent out 46 alerts to UK business, which included 11 alerts to UK financial institutions detailing more than 46,000 online account details that had been compromised by phishing and virus attacks, a system for UK call centres to...
[15 May 2008]
News A national centre to co-ordinate strategy for combating fraud in England and Wales should be in place by next year. The Attorney General's Office for England and Wales (AGO) wants a National Fraud Reporting Centre to collate reports of all types of...
[28 Apr 2008]
News Sandra Quinn, director of communications at Apacs, said in a statement: "Although online banking fraud losses fell last year the fraudsters clearly aren't giving up. Online banking fraud losses decreased a third from £33.5m in 2006 to £22.6m in...
[16 Apr 2008]
News Virus-related equipment failure or data loss affected 19 per cent of businesses surveyed, credit card fraud affected 11 per cent, theft of PC/laptop eight per cent, hacking seven per cent and four per cent or less were affected by unauthorised...
[09 Apr 2008]
News The most commonly reported crime was auction fraud but they also included non-delivery of purchases, credit/debit card fraud, computer intrusions, spam or unsolicited email and child pornography.silicon.com has won widespread support for its e...
[08 Apr 2008]
News Cyber crimes such as hacking, denial of service attacks and online fraud are not taken seriously enough by the police. Businesses are also complaining that local police forces do not have the resources or expertise to deal with growing cyber crime...
[07 Apr 2008]
News A spokesman for the Home Office said: "No decision has been taken on the formation of an e-crime unit, but we will be considering how we take an overall approach to issues such as electronic fraud, and will be discussing these with a number of law...
[26 Mar 2008]
News Lemon warned that the internet was fuelling a rise in global credit card fraud and that the UK and the US were the targets. Her warning came as payment clearing industry body Apacs released figures showing that £532.2m was lost to card fraud in...
[19 Mar 2008]
News Local police forces do not have the resources or expertise to deal with growing cyber crime and online fraud threats facing businesses today. One of the threats that needs a co-ordinated police response is online fraud, according to Tony Johnson...
[18 Mar 2008]
Comment Identity fraud and cybercrime are of course difficult to investigate and because of the way they regularly cross international boundaries it's hard to get a conviction. That's why silicon.com's latest campaign is important.
[13 Mar 2008]
News We need a national online fraud reporting centre and we need it now. Leading police officers, global cyber security chiefs and FTSE 100 companies are backing a new campaign by silicon.com for the creation of a dedicated UK national cyber crime...
[12 Mar 2008]
News silicon.com is today launching its e-Crime Crackdown campaign for a properly funded and dedicated national UK police unit to combat the growing threat of high-tech fraud and cyber attacks. Our e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a fully...
[12 Mar 2008]
News Last June eBay revealed details of a three-year long campaign to curb online fraud by criminals in Romania - leading to several hundred arrests. Most of Romania's law enforcement efforts are concentrated on its capital, Bucharest, but most of the...
[10 Mar 2008]
Comment Their other suggestions included increasing resources for the police to deal with internet-based crime, and allowing victims of online card fraud to report to the police - rather than to the banks which seem reluctant to act in many cases.
[27 Feb 2008]
News Consumers still lack awareness of basic online security alarms despite well publicised instances of data breaches and fraud. Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously.
[26 Feb 2008]
News Other recommendations ignored included increasing resources and skills for the police to deal with internet-based crime and the reversal of the requirement that victims of online card fraud report the crime to their banks rather than to the police.
[22 Feb 2008]
Comment For years the government has been telling us that it is so worried about the menace of identity fraud that it wants to spend £5bn on identity cards that will apparently protect us. Yet strangely it has ignored calls to tighten up on data protection...
[06 Feb 2008]
News Lie detector beats benefit fraud And this is why silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign launched this year, calling for a rethink of the UK law to force organisations to report breaches of their data security which could put their customers...
[14 Dec 2007]
News The information commissioner, Richard Thomas, said these findings are a "considerable concern", when the increasing risk of identity fraud is taken into account. Only 22 per cent of SMEs surveyed are aware the Act requires them to keep customer...
[11 Oct 2007]
News Three-quarters of UK adults have either been affected by identity fraud or know someone who has, according to a poll commissioned for the ID fraud prevention campaign. National identity fraud protection week has kicked off with a warning that 79...
[09 Oct 2007]
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