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News Consumers are more worried about falling victim to cyber crime than mugging, car theft or burglary, a survey has revealed. Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden warned the public will lose out on the enormous economic and social benefits the...
[09 Oct 2006]
whitepaper In fact, many business victims of cyber crime fail to report attacks for fear of exposing their security vulnerabilities and damaging their credibility with clients. There are a number of ways in which cyber intruders can invade systems and cause...
[20 Feb 2005]
News The unit would provide leadership and expertise to co-ordinate investigations nationwide and collate reports from forces across the country, as well as offering a central point of contact for reporting cyber crime.
[19 Mar 2008]
News Just six per cent said cyber crime should be a lower priority for police and 11 per cent of silicon.com readers said the police have the balance "about right".silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police...
[07 Apr 2008]
News The Council of Europe has approved a draft cyber-crime treaty aimed at bringing together international policy on those committing illegal and terrorist activity online. The legislation must now be signed at a meeting of the Council's 43 member...
[21 Sep 2000]
News The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will today announce its plans to create a specialised cyber-crime unit. The unit - to be known as the Internet Fraud Council (IFC) - will track, investigate and intervene in cyber-crimes ranging from...
[10 May 1999]
News Cyber crime groups are using "KGB-style" recruitment tactics to snare whiz-kid computer students, a report from security technology company McAfee has revealed. Internet-savvy teens as young as 14 are attracted to cyber crime for its "celebrity...
[08 Dec 2006]
Comment The growth of international cyber crime and terrorism over the past five years has spurred the FBI to establish dedicated cyber squads at each of its 56 field offices across the US and support 70 cyber task forces nationwide, backed up by global...
[15 Apr 2008]
News The peer said he hopes the legislation will enable the police and judiciary to better tackle cyber crime, and provide the government with guidance in understanding it. Sweeping changes to UK computer crime laws have been proposed by a Conservative...
[21 Jun 2006]
News There is now no central body to collect and monitor national cyber crime statistics and the Metropolitan Police Service admitted earlier this year that local police computer crime units are being overwhelmed by the growing scale of this type of...
[08 Oct 2007]
Comment The threat of terrorism is soaking up funds badly needed to combat cyber crime. After all, if the FBI only has a team of 100 officers to deal with all cyber crime offences and Interpol has perhaps only three for Europe, the Middle East and Africa...
[27 Feb 2008]
News Last year NCIS conducted a strategic assessment of the dangers of cyber-crime in the UK, and concluded that government had to work with industry to ensure that the Internet did not become a "seductive environment for criminals".
[17 Jan 2000]
Leader We're often warned of the menace of cyber crime to UK business - and hear plenty of ideas for what needs to be done to fight back. And of course, silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign has been trying to make businesses and government take data...
[24 Aug 2007]
News The UK government's £337,000 pledge to set up a 'cyber-crime unit' has been dismissed as "inadequate" by industry experts. Home Secretary Jack Straw said the money will be given to the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) to fight the...
[18 Jan 2000]
News Palmer claimed that pressure needs to be put on countries allowing cyber crime to be perpetrated within their borders. You need to make it in the country's interest not to allow cyber crime - tell them we'll cut off their internet access if they do.
[24 Oct 2005]
News The ratification marks "an important milestone in the fight against international cyber crime," said Paul Kurtz, executive director of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, which counts Juniper Networks, McAfee, RSA Security and Symantec among its...
[07 Aug 2006]
News Currently NCIS says half the money from government will be spent on a central administration investigating crime on the internet, with the other half to be spent on training police forces to deal better with cyber-crime.
[10 Jul 2000]
Comment Cyber crime is clearly an international problem. 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...
[09 May 2006]
whitepaper His goal in working with the international group is to establish contacts with prosecutors worldwide on cyber crime. Attorney General Shurtleff quotes the U.S. General Accounting Office as estimating about 750,000 Internet fraud complaints...
[01 Dec 2004]
News Symantec CEO John Thompson has said it is "unconscionable" that cyber crime is going unpunished to the degree that it is around the world and demanded that governments get to grips with the escalating threats.
[18 Apr 2006]
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