e-crime crackdown funding

Police e-crime unit set for green light

News We're looking at days rather than months.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit. The UK's proposed central e-crime police unit is close to securing the necessary government funding to make it a...

Tags: funding, government, police, e-crime

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[25 Apr 2008]

Businesses may be forced to pay for e-crime police

News But the private sector has hit back saying the core funding for a dedicated police unit to combat e-crime must come from the government.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK e-crime police unit.

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

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[17 Mar 2008]

Police e-crime funding set for green light?

News Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie, who has just stepped down as head of the Metropolitan Police Service's e-crime unit, is waiting for Home Office approval for the £1.3m start-up costs for the Policing Central E-Crime Unit proposed by the...

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

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[12 Mar 2008]

Gov't pledges to take e-crime seriously

News The government has pledged to meet with law enforcers to forge new policies on tackling cyber crime.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit. McMurdie recently added her voice to those supporting...

Tags: e-crime, e-crime crackdown, cyber crime, crime

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[26 Mar 2008]

e-Crime Crackdown - silicon.com launches national campaign

News silicon.com is today launching its e-Crime Crackdown campaign for a properly funded and dedicated national UK police unit to combat the growing threat of high-tech fraud and cyber attacks. Britain is in the grip of the growing cyber crime menace...

Tags: cyber crime, e-crime, nhtcu, threat

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[12 Mar 2008]

UK Plc calls for national police e-crime force

News The UK's major industry and business groups have backed silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign, which is calling for the creation of a new national police e-crime unit to combat the growing threat of cyber crime.

Tags: e-crime, police, cyber crime, crime

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[14 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...

Tags: security, cyber crime, fraud

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[28 Apr 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...

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[09 Apr 2008]