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RSS NHTCUSMEs targeted in computer crime push
News The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) is targeting SMEs in a campaign to raise awareness of computer crime. The NHTCU has produced a booklet for small firms advising them of how to protect themselves... [09 Feb 2005]
Companies urged to make security top of board's agenda
News The National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has called for increased board level awareness of security issues and more industry co-operation. Speaking to silicon.com, Tony Neate, tactical industry liaison for the... [30 Jan 2002]
Insecure networks exploited by paedophiles
News The head of the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has warned that UK companies with poor IT security could unknowingly be hosting child pornography on their servers. The online activities of paedophiles are not... [10 Dec 2002]
Hi-tech cops to underpin UK's elite 'FBI' police force
News The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) will be a key plank of the UK government's plans to tackle 21st-century organised crime with a new FBI-style crime-fighting agency. The elite police force will merge the National... [09 Feb 2004]
E-crime hitting British business for billions
News E-crime is dogging British business, according to a survey from the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU). The figures released by NOP on behalf of the NHTCU show the cost to British business of e-crime is... [24 Feb 2004]
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... [27 Oct 2005]
Cybercriminals taking £2.5bn from UK businesses
News Electronic crime cost UK companies an estimated £2.45bn last year, the National Hi-tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) announced on Tuesday. The NHTCU highlighted that external hackers were not the only threat to... [05 Apr 2005]
Cybercops smash online extortion gang
News Britain's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) announced on Wednesday that it had helped to smash a Russian gang involved in online extortion and money-laundering. The bookie said all the UK firms had refused to pay the... [21 Jul 2004]
Police arrest two UK virus writers
News Two UK men - a 19-year-old electrician and an unemployed 21-year-old - are being interviewed today by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU). The NHTCU claims this group is behind a piece of malware... [06 Feb 2003]
Police warning over new key-logging 'Trojan' spam emails
News The UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) said the spam emails contain details of a fictitious order for web hosting or computer goods and display the cost that will supposedly be charged to their credit card. [13 Aug 2004]
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... [04 Apr 2006]
Phone-charge Net fraud on the rise in UK
News ICSTIS has been forced to call in the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) after being hit with a surge in complaints. This has led the regulator to turn to the NHTCU. A spokesperson for the... [24 Jun 2004]
Cyber-criminals face high-tech 'home guard'
News At an industry meeting of the year-old National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) a new scheme was inaugurated to create a list of IT experts willing to contribute their time to aid cyber-crime investigations. [01 Mar 2002]
Net closes on betting 'hackmail' gang
News The UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) revealed in January that it was investigating the threats against UK businesses, which are thought to be the work of organised criminal gangs rather than amateur hackers. [08 Mar 2004]
£220m spyware bank robbers thwarted
News But the NHTCU was onto the plot as early as last October after it was discovered the bank's system had been compromised. At the time of writing the NHTCU was unavailable for comment. The UK's National... [17 Mar 2005]
