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Police <strong>e</strong>-<strong>crime</strong> funding set for green light?

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

[12 Mar 2008]

Businesses may be forced to pay for <strong>e</strong>-<strong>crime</strong> police

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

[17 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

[26 Mar 2008]

Police backs calls for e-crime unit

News Some of the biggest names in law enforcement, business and the IT industry have thrown their weight behind our e-Crime Crackdown campaign.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit.

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

[12 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

[12 Mar 2008]

UK 'failing on cyber crime'

News Shadow home secretary David Davis said a crime is committed online in the UK "every ten seconds" - costing UK businesses £10bn a year.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit.

Tags: pceu, cyber crime, e-crime crackdown

[03 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...

Tags: e-crime, cyber crime

[09 Apr 2008]

Top 10 security stories of the year

News Police: There's no piggybacking crackdown Despite wi-fi piggybacking hitting the headlines this year, the police said the arrest of a man for piggybacking on someone else's wi-fi-enabled broadband connection was not part of a wider crackdown.

Tags: security, storm worm, hmrc, data breach

[13 Dec 2007]

Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes

News The National High Tech Crime Unit (NHCTU) was rolled into Soca in 2006, prompting claims from business and politicians that cyber crime policing was being diluted.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime...

Tags: nhtcu, soca, cyber crime

[15 May 2008]

Leader: Unjust extradition laws must be amended

Leader UK executives are now increasingly finding themselves caught up in the US crackdown on accounting scandals and corporate fraud, as highlighted by the recent cases of the NatWest Three and Jeremy Crook, the former European boss of US software...

Tags: extradition

[22 Nov 2006]

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