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Comment With a high number of internet connections and a rich history of web- and computer-literate criminals, the US is understandably the major focus for much of the discussion into the current global problem of cyber crime. [09 May 2006]
Online fraud still on the rise
News It's a lot safer than robbing banks and the police cracking down on other, offline areas of crime is driving criminals into fraud. There is infrastructure in place such as the networks of compromised servers and PCs... [02 Mar 2005]
Nigeria enlists Microsoft to fight 419 scammers
News Microsoft is to work with the Nigerian government to help track down and prosecute criminals involved in 419 email scams and other internet-based fraud originating from the African country. Microsoft... [14 Oct 2005]
419 crackdown must get to the source, say UK police
News NCIS claims the fraud is responsible for the theft of £150m a year from the UK and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said at a presidential committee on email scams this week that he plans to increase measures to crackdown on 419... [27 Nov 2003]
Police seize drugs and stolen goods using licence plate readers
News We believe that by extending ANPR technology, backed up by dedicated police intercept teams, to all 280 local police command units in the country, we can effectively deny criminals the use of the roads. [29 May 2003]
Brazil 'home to 80 per cent of world's hackers'
News The conference also hopes to encourage research into how to stop the criminals. Federal police in Brazil have declared that eight out of 10 hackers are living in the South American country. Financial... [15 Sep 2004]
Leader: Online crime - new tools, old tricks
Leader No one - but criminals would have it otherwise. Virus writers looking for fame and glory are in much smaller numbers these days as criminals have moved onto their patch and are designing malware for profit. [26 May 2005]
UK police force spends £2m on database
News The authority plans to integrate the system with the National Criminal Database - used by every regional force in the country to get access to information about known crimes and convicted criminals. West... [05 Nov 1998]
Cops to scan own fingers
News He added: "In terms of taxpayers' money, do we want to put in the processing power that could cope with 60 million people in this country on the same sort of searches for criminals. My vision is... [21 Oct 2005]
The silicon.com Weekly Round-Up
Comment Are they the real criminals? Indeed, they claim they weren't even in the same country that the withdrawals were made from. Quite simply, the illegal drug industry has invaded the homes of families across... [28 Feb 2003]
Leader: The beginning of the end for 419 scams?
Leader Usually such messages are either caught by our spam filters or we simply delete them but it would seem there are still enough gullible - or greedy - people out there to make these so-called 419 scams profitable for... [14 Oct 2005]
Banks face prosecution over Indian call centre leak
News The problem is not unique to any single nation - it is one that affects us all - and each of us has a responsibility to take on the criminals. But Indian IT trade association Nasscom said these incidents are rare and can... [23 Jun 2005]
In brief: Top wi-fi, zombie attack, paradise lost, malware costs
News The FBI is to contact more than one million PC users who have been infected by Trojans and had their computers hijacked by criminals for the sending of spam and viruses. Secondary losses are increasing, as... [15 Jun 2007]
419 scams: The Iraqi war angle
News As such many of the scams now give the appearance of originating in South Africa, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and further afield - though past investigations typically unveil a web of criminals from various countries... [01 Apr 2003]
Offshoring: Met and CBC unite against cyber crime
News He claimed that criminals often use London as a hub for launching schemes in the rest of the country or Europe.silicon.com's Andy McCue contributed to this report The organisation's vice president, Sunil... [13 Jul 2005]
