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RSS pceuTrojan bank fraud gang sentenced
News The convictions of the gang members are the first to come out of an investigation by the Met's Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), the £7m unit set up last year to tackle cybercrime. PCeU officers first... [17 Nov 2009]
100 dodgy football ticket sellers shut down by cybercops
News According to the PCeU the initiative, known as Operation Phyllite, saw the unit work with bodies including the Premier League, FA and Fifa, as well as ISPs, registrars and Trading Standards, to shut down the illegal... [10 Aug 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet So, PCeU. The PCeU has done some of that too. Not a sniff of it - PCeU stands for the Police Central e-crime Unit. PCeU is a police unit that co-ordinates the law... [20 Jul 2009]
Soca's cybercrime cops score 21 convictions
News Soca is joined in the fight against internet crime by the Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU), which supports the National Fraud Reporting Centre and helps to develop the overall response to cybercrime by UK police. [15 Jul 2009]
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 Fraud Reporting... [25 Mar 2009]
eBay: e-crime cops latest recruit
News The UK's new e-crime unit is already collecting criminal intelligence reports from eBay in an effort to help stamp out fraud and data theft targeting the auctioneer.eBay is feeding information on fraudulent activity on its site to the... [25 Feb 2009]
Police turn to IT industry to help fight cybercrime
News The Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) event will take place in Reading on 24 February, and is to be held under the auspices of the Corporate IT Forum. In December, the PCeU said it was in talks with the... [11 Feb 2009]
Credit crunch sees UK firms send techies to cops
News The financial slowdown in the retail, banking and telecoms sectors is expected to see more businesses offer their IT staff rather than money to support the £7m Police Central E-crime Unit (PCeU), according to joint... [19 Jan 2009]
London Olympics cyber cops hit the ground running
News The Police Central E-Crime Unit (PCeU) is in talks with Atos Origin and other IT suppliers to the London 2012 Games to secure the Games' IT backbone, which will support 1,000 servers and 10,000 PCs as well as wireless... [13 Jan 2009]
UK police: 'We need crime breathalysers for PCs'
News Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie, architect of the UK's Police Central E-crime Unit (PCeU), said frontline police ideally need a digital forensic tool as easy to use as the breathalyser, to help them deal with... [11 Dec 2008]
Help us find the fraudsters, police ask business
News Police are now in talks with the CBI and other industry bodies about using online investigators at banks and retailers to help spot the origin of large attacks on their customers and pass the details to the Police Central E-crime Unit... [10 Dec 2008]
MPs demand more cash for e-crime battle
News In a parliamentary debate on internet fraud today, MPs said the government needs to "look again" at the £7m funding for the Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU). Criticism over the PCeU's funding is... [05 Nov 2008]
UK Plc feels abandoned to cyber crime onslaught
News Tif says the survey of 54 of the UK's major corporate IT users casts doubt on whether the newly announced Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), will have the resources to be effective in light of its £7m funding over the... [03 Nov 2008]
UK struck by cyber crime wave
News Speaking at the RSA Conference 2008 in London, Microsoft chief security advisor Ed Gibson, who helped advise government on the newly formed Police Central E-crime Unit (PCEU), described the unit as a "giant step forward... [30 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 are due to kick... [02 Oct 2008]
