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Cyber crime more feared than muggings or burglary

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...

Tags: internet crime, e-crime, computer crime, cyber crime

[09 Oct 2006]

Cyber Crime

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...

Tags: law and government, attacks, cyber, transmission

[20 Feb 2005]

Police chief: Cyber crime is everywhere

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.

Tags: soca, cyber crime, e-crime, campaign

[19 Mar 2008]

Cyber crime: Police not taking it seriously

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...

Tags: hacking, police, e-crime

[07 Apr 2008]

<strong>Cyber</strong>-<strong>crime</strong> law draws closer to reality

Cyber-crime law draws closer to reality

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]

FBI sets up cyber-crime unit

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]

Gangs groom kids for cyber crime

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...

Tags: recruiters, cyber criminals, kids, recruitment

[08 Dec 2006]

FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat

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...

Tags: security, malware, cyber crime

[15 Apr 2008]

Lord: 'We need better cyber crime laws'

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...

Tags: cma, cyber crime

[21 Jun 2006]

Businesses call for police cyber crime unit

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...

Tags: cyber crime, cio jury, police

[08 Oct 2007]

Why no united front on cyber crime?

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...

Tags: cyber crime, internet, botnets, crime

[27 Feb 2008]

UK government pledges support for fighting cyber-crime

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: Time to rethink cyber crime priorities

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...

Tags: arrest, wi-fi, e-crime, police

[24 Aug 2007]

UK cyber-crime spend 'inadequate', experts claim

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]

We need UN body to combat cyber crime, says MP

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.

Tags: cyber crime

[24 Oct 2005]

Global cyber-crime treaty gets Senate nod

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...

Tags: child porn, hacking, terrorism, cyber crime

[07 Aug 2006]

Government to allocate £50m to cyber-crime unit

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]

Analysis: A globetrotter's guide to <strong>cyber</strong> <strong>crime</strong>

Analysis: A globetrotter's guide to cyber crime

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...

Tags: scam, nigerian 419 scams, malware, spam

[09 May 2006]

Inter-jurisdictional Cooperation: A Case Study on Cyber Crime

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...

Tags: cyber security, association, international, prosecutors

[01 Dec 2004]

Symantec boss demands tougher laws on cyber crime

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.

Tags: symantec

[18 Apr 2006]

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