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Police forces lack e-crime expertise and resources

Police forces lack e-crime expertise and resources

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...

Tags: cio jury, e-crime, cio, crime

[18 Mar 2008]

e-Crime Crackdown: Timeline

News UK citizens and businesses have weathered unrelenting attacks from online phishers and hackers in recent years, while witnessing a gradual erosion of the ability of police forces to deal with everyday e-crime.

Tags: cyber crime, nhtcu, e-crime, crime

[12 Mar 2008]

Police e-crime funding set for green light?

Police e-crime funding set for green light?

News Police, businesses and politicians have been calling for a dedicated cyber crime unit since the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) was absorbed into the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) in 2006.silicon.com has also this week launched...

Tags: cyber crime, nhtcu, e-crime, campaign

[12 Mar 2008]

Police backs calls for e-crime unit

News It is absurd that the government removed the NHTCU [National High Tech Crime Unit] without putting anything in place to fill the gap. He said: "We desperately need 'son of NHTCU'. The demise of the NHTCU means that UK Plcs today have nowhere to go...

Tags: cyber crime, nhtcu, e-crime, crime

[12 Mar 2008]

e-Crime Crackdown - silicon.com launches national campaign

News Police, businesses and politicians say Britain is ill equipped to deal with the growing threat and have been demanding a dedicated e-crime police unit since the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) was absorbed into the Serious Organised Crime...

Tags: cyber crime, e-crime, nhtcu, threat

[12 Mar 2008]

Police unprepared for security 'arms race'

News The UK used to have a dedicated police e-crime fighting body - called the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) - but this was rolled into the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) in April 2006. The decision to merge the NHTCU with Soca was not a...

Tags: rsa, crime, soca, agency

[14 Feb 2008]

UK needs cyber-crime reporting body

News Roberts added the UK needs the return of the NHTCU, or a similar organisation that understands e-crime, has an international remit and has the authority to do something about electronic crimes. SOCA said the NHTCU has become the core of the e-crime...

Tags: dos, denial of service, police, police forces

[19 Jul 2007]

Russian hacker trio jailed for cyber attacks

News Maksakov, Petrov and Stepanov were arrested in 2004, through a joint operation between the UK National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) and the Russian authorities. The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), which has now replaced the NHTCU, confirmed...

Tags: hackers

[05 Oct 2006]

'Ransomware' hackers to go unpunished?

News Cases such as the Archiveus incident would previously have been dealt with by the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), which was amalgamated into the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) in April.

Tags: ransomware, ransom, hackers, trojan

[05 Jun 2006]

Leader: UK FBI risks abandoning e-crime victims

Leader But one of the lesser-noted implications of the launch of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) is the fate of the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), which along with a number of other specialist groups has been rolled into the agency.

Tags: nhtcu

[04 Apr 2006]

Will SOCA kick online fraud into touch?

Comment The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) is to bring 4,000 specialist agents together and the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) - the UK's computer police - has become part of the new body. Not so, insists a spokeswoman for SOCA, who told...

Tags: anti-fraud, fraud

[04 Apr 2006]

Take cyber crime seriously, government told

News Gibson said the decision to roll the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) into a new larger agency, The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), in April 2006 would actually make it harder for businesses to work out to whom they should report an...

Tags: cyber security, security, cyber crime, microsoft

[02 Feb 2006]

The mafia targets bank insiders

The mafia targets bank insiders

News More than two-thirds (68 per cent) of information stolen from companies with more than a thousand employees was taken by an insider, according to a study commissioned by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU).

Tags: mafia

[29 Nov 2005]

Exclusive: The cost of joining Get Safe Online

News A Word document sent in error to silicon.com has revealed that the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has specifically been consulting only with security and online fraud experts willing to pay between £50,000 and £150,000 in order to raise...

[27 Oct 2005]

We need UN body to combat cyber crime, says MP

News If a crime involves a complex international web of criminal activity, it can be difficult to gather sufficient evidence for a conviction, according to Howard Lamb, crime reduction co-ordinator for the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU).

Tags: cyber crime

[24 Oct 2005]

Two UK virus writers banged up

News The two were identified by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) as members of the hacking group "THr34t Krew". Detective superintendent Mick Deats, deputy head of the NHTCU, said in a statement: "Over the past year, the National Hi-Tech Crime...

Tags: virus writer, virus, virus writers, hackers

[07 Oct 2005]

Security education: Too little too late

Comment Meanwhile, the cost of computer-related crime in 2004 grew to £2.4bn, according to the National Hi-tech Crime unit (NHTCU) survey, which reveals only the tip of a much larger iceberg because there's no true figure on what it costs consumers (such...

Tags: security education, government

[22 Aug 2005]

Cyber cops investigate Manchester police DoS attack

News Computer crime experts at the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) have been called in to help investigate an attempted denial of service attack on Greater Manchester Police. But after struggling to get any concrete leads, the force told silicon.com...

Tags: nhtcu, manchester, dos, cyber cops

[12 Jul 2005]

£6.5m net phishing fraud lands two men in the clink

£6.5m net phishing fraud lands two men in the clink

News According to the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), the pair stole at least £750,000 over a 10-month period as they forwarded money on to unnamed groups in Russia. Mick Deat, deputy head of the NHTCU, said in a statement: "We are particularly...

Tags: phishing, internet fraud

[27 Jun 2005]

Opinion: Is cybercrime unstoppable?

Opinion: Is cybercrime unstoppable?

Comment Last week's survey figures released by the UK National Hi-tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) revealed that net crime cost businesses £2.45bn in the last 12 months. Online crime is growing at breakneck speed while law enforcement, try as they might, have a...

Tags: law enforcement, organised crime, cybercrime

[11 Apr 2005]

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