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RSS police in newsMoD breach: Data goes missing from "secure location"
News The MoD police are investigating with EDS. IT contractor EDS has lost a hard drive containing Ministry of Defence data. According to press reports, the drive contained sensitive information on approximately 100,000... [10 Oct 2008]
UK tech Skills Academy needs YOU
News Employers that have already collaborated with e-skills UK for the IT academy include Accenture, the BBC, BT, Carphone Warehouse, C&W, HP, IBM, the Metropolitan Police, Sainsbury's and Vodafone. The government has given... [08 Oct 2008]
Lords to debate security progress of "wild west" web
News Some of our recommendations, such as the establishment of a specialist e-crime police unit, are now being acted on by government," he said. But others, such as software developers' liability for damage caused by security... [06 Oct 2008]
Why CIOs aren't on the Chrome straight
News Andrew Watson, British Transport Police CIO, said: "We are not testing Chrome - partly because the internet is such a potential security risk, we would take our steer off of CESG [the government agency which approves... [03 Oct 2008]
Police fraud centre ready for takeoff
News Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie of the Metropolitan Police Service, one of the architects of the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), has revealed pilots for the National Fraud Reporting Centre... [02 Oct 2008]
Do you have what it takes to be an e-caped crusader?
News Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie of the Metropolitan Police Service - one of the architects of the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) announced today - has proposed recruiting individuals from... [01 Oct 2008]
Can £7m dent £105bn cyber crime menace?
News British business has questioned how a newly created £7m police unit will help tackle a global cyber crime industry estimated to be worth £105bn. From spring 2009 the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU),... [01 Oct 2008]
CIOs not taking a shine to Chrome
News Andrew Watson, CIO at the British Transport Police said: "We are not testing Chrome. Andrew Watson, CIO, British Transport Police Exclusive Special Report: CIO Agenda 2008 Find out what's hot on the top... [29 Sep 2008]
Data breach victims get the mushroom treatment
News Of those organisations that have experienced a data breach, 60 per cent did not tell their clients and half did not alert the police or authorities. Companies that suffer data breaches are unwilling to tell their clients... [25 Sep 2008]
Notts police turns to tech for better crime handling
News Nottinghamshire Police is trialling new incident management tech that it hopes will improve its response times as well as information sharing across its various agencies. The system is also being used by West Mercia... [19 Sep 2008]
'Broken: E-crime policing in the UK'
News Currently, low-level internet fraud, hacking and spamming attacks must be reported to local police forces. Absolutely nothing.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime... [15 Sep 2008]
iPhone hacker claims device captures all
News The screenshots are presumably deleted after the application is closed but they can be recovered with forensics techniques, just like data deleted from any storage device can be reconstructed for police purposes, he said... [12 Sep 2008]
North Wales Police outsources email
News North Wales Police has turned to US outsourcer Unisys to maintain and run its email system. Email accounts of 1,600 police officers and 900 support staff will be migrated from Exchange 2003 to Exchange... [10 Sep 2008]
Data loss consultants sacked by Home Office
News The firm was contracted to run the JTrack system, a database used by the Home Office and the police to keep track of offenders.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the... [10 Sep 2008]
MP risks arrest for Segway use
News The MP for Montgomeryshire was willing to be hauled away by police in his protest against the ban on the two-wheeled transporters on UK roads saying: "It's either Segways or Strangeways. About 500,000 Segways have been... [09 Sep 2008]
