e-crime crackdown crime
UK 'failing on cyber crime'
News Shadow home secretary David Davis said a crime is committed online in the UK "every ten seconds" - costing UK businesses £10bn a year.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit. [03 Apr 2008]
Phishing, malware and online fraud is booming
News The UK Threat Assessment of Serious Organised Crime pinpoints a surge in attempts to hijack bank accounts using email phishing and key logging malware.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit. [06 Jun 2008]
UK phishing attacks shoot up 200 per cent
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]
Will SOCA kick online fraud into touch?
Comment One of the objectives of SOCA is to launch a crackdown on financial crime, such as money laundering and online fraud. Tony Blair has launched the UK's very own FBI to fight back against organised crime. [04 Apr 2006]
Police chief: Cyber crime is everywhere
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]
National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year
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]
eBay warns of Romanian phishing threat
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]
UK businesses: No one cares about cyber attacks!
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]
Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes
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]
Security 'perfect storm' is a-brewing
News His warning echoes silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign, which calls for a dedicated police cyber crime unit in the UK. Coviello urged regulators and policy makers to work more closely to tackle the global security threats and said tackling... [09 Apr 2008]
Top 10 security stories of the year
News Police: There's no piggybacking crackdown Despite wi-fi piggybacking hitting the headlines this year, the police said the arrest of a man for piggybacking on someone else's wi-fi-enabled broadband connection was not part of a wider crackdown. [13 Dec 2007]
Leader: Unjust extradition laws must be amended
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]
Leader: Playing sheriff of the wild, wild web
Leader Even the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, which traces huge amounts of laundered money around the world, said at last year's e-Crime Forum that tracking small payments is difficult. New government plans to crack down on fraudsters show just how... [02 Feb 2006]
Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment Not only could their bargain turn out to be faulty or dangerous, they may also be funding organised crime in the process. It signals a new intent to tighten online policing, says lawyer Simon Levine. It's not just social networks that are facing... [22 Jul 2008]
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