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News The National High Tech Crime Unit (NHCTU) was rolled into Soca in 2006, prompting claims from business and politicians that cyber crime policing was being diluted.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime...
[15 May 2008]
News A spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said: "A proof-of-concept model is being developed and will be tested from the summer, for six months, with aim to identify what information is not being compared currently and join up information that...
[28 Apr 2008]
News Apacs said consumers must be vigilant after the number of reported incidents shot up by more than 10,000 during the first quarter of 2008.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit.
[16 Apr 2008]
News More than three quarters (74 per cent) of the nearly 4,000 organisations that responded to The Invisible Crime: A Business Crime Survey survey by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), called for a dedicated police e-crime unit.silicon.com's e...
[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 Just six per cent said cyber crime should be a lower priority for police and 11 per cent of silicon.com readers said the police have the balance "about right".silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police...
[07 Apr 2008]
News The government has pledged to meet with law enforcers to forge new policies on tackling cyber crime.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit. McMurdie recently added her voice to those supporting...
[26 Mar 2008]
News She said: "The thing that is disturbing us the most is the exchange of stolen credit card data and the scale on which it is being traded on the internet and its availability to be bought.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a...
[19 Mar 2008]
News All 12 CIOs and IT directors on this week's CIO Jury are backing silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign for a dedicated national police e-crime unit, following the government's decision to hand over the now defunct National High-Tech Crime Unit...
[18 Mar 2008]
News Some of the biggest names in law enforcement, business and the IT industry have thrown their weight behind our e-Crime Crackdown campaign.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit.
[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 Most of Romania's law enforcement efforts are concentrated on its capital, Bucharest, but most of the cases identified during the crackdown were coming from smaller towns, where the eBay team sometimes found backlogs of 200 eBay-related fraud...
[10 Mar 2008]
News The taxman is spending £60m on a secure communications system to help in its crackdown on fraudsters and smugglers. HMRC's law enforcement arm investigates and detects crimes involving tax fraud, smuggling and related issues, providing the...
[13 Feb 2008]
Comment The crackdown on financial crime has opened up opportunities for vendors to produce applications that automatically keep banks compliant with changing regulations. It is unlikely SaaS delivery models will appeal to large global banks that can gain...
[01 Nov 2007]
News The NHS' fraud-busting unit has embarked on one of its biggest ever IT projects as part of its continued crackdown on the millions of pounds lost through fraud in the health service each year. The NHS Counter Fraud Service (CFS) will use software...
[24 Jan 2007]
Leader UK executives are now increasingly finding themselves caught up in the US crackdown on accounting scandals and corporate fraud, as highlighted by the recent cases of the NatWest Three and Jeremy Crook, the former European boss of US software...
[22 Nov 2006]
News The government claims the measures will isolate those people involved in drug trafficking, organised immigration crime, credit card and identity fraud and money laundering. I do not want data protection to be wrongly blamed for preventing sensible...
[18 Jul 2006]
News The move is an attempt to cut down on fraud, such as the notorious rogue diallers that have tricked many dial-up users out of hundreds of pounds. Graham said: "The new Code of Practice puts the emphasis on the network provider to perform proper due...
[11 Jul 2006]
News Two of the world's largest antivirus software vendors are launching legal action against a group of software pirates selling illegal versions of well-known security software on eBay, as part of a major crackdown on software fraud on the auction site.
[17 May 2006]
Comment One of the objectives of SOCA is to launch a crackdown on financial crime, such as money laundering and online fraud. According to SOCA's literature, around 40 per cent of its resources will be focussed on stopping drug trafficking; 25 per cent on...
[04 Apr 2006]
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