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Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet There's also the City of London Police force, which battles online crime as part of its role as the national lead police force for fraud and the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) also has a dedicated... [20 Jul 2009]
Soca's cybercrime cops score 21 convictions
News But since then there has been regular criticism from businesses that online fraud and crime has not been a high priority for law enforcement. As well as fighting homegrown criminals, Soca also focuses on tackling... [15 Jul 2009]
SFO gets new CIO
News The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has hired itself a new CIO from the ranks of PricewaterhouseCoopers. We believe having the ability to interrogate the high volumes of electronic evidence... [10 Jun 2009]
CIO Job Report: March's job moves and CIOs wanted
News Applications have now closed for the position of CIO at the Serious Fraud Office. Let silicon.com keep you up to date with all the latest CIO job moves and changes with our regular CIO... [31 Mar 2009]
Security expert slams Home Office data-sharing guide
News A Home Office spokesperson said: "The code of practice is designed to provide an overarching code for public authorities disclosing information under arrangements with a specified anti-fraud organisation. [10 Oct 2008]
Can £7m dent £105bn cyber crime menace?
News The PCeU will focus heavily on online fraud, particularly on cases reported to the National Fraud Reporting Centre. From spring 2009 the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), announced yesterday by the... [01 Oct 2008]
UK crime fighters grapple with iPhone wipe threat
News The head of the Serious Fraud Office digital forensics unit Keith Foggon cautioned that the ability to remotely wipe the iPhone and other smart phones used by enterprises could be... [02 Sep 2008]
Jet packs, army tech and Victorian gadgets
Photo The digital forensics unit of the Serious Fraud Office showed silicon.com how it sniffs out incriminating evidence from crime scenes. Sci-fi staple - the jet pack - finally made its way... [02 Sep 2008]
Photos: Sniffing out fraud with digital forensics
Photo The digital forensics unit (DFU) of the Serious Fraud Office sniffs out incriminating evidence from crime scenes. The DFU uses about 60 per cent of its 300TB storage, which is spread... [13 Aug 2008]
Phishing, malware and online fraud is booming
News It also warns of bank accounts being taken over by fraudsters tricking call centre workers, a 37 per cent rise in the cost of phone, internet and mail order fraud and the threat from chip and PIN devices being modified... [06 Jun 2008]
Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes
News Soca has also sent out 46 alerts to UK business, which included 11 alerts to UK financial institutions detailing more than 46,000 online account details that had been compromised by phishing and virus attacks, a system for UK call... [15 May 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. Our e-Crime Crackdown campaign... [12 Mar 2008]
Tories: Time to wage war on cyber crime
News Describing the government policy towards e-crime as showing a "lack of clear leadership", shadow home secretary David Davis revealed Tory plans to create a police national cyber crime unit, a minister for e-crime, a... [06 Mar 2008]
Government reveals snooping figures
News Hundreds of UK public bodies are authorised to intercept individuals' communications, including the Ambulance Service and Fire Authorities, the British Transport Police, HM Revenue & Customs, Secret Intelligence Service, the Security... [30 Jan 2008]
Missing: 25 million child benefit records
News Darling said no individual will suffer any financial loss if they are innocent victims of fraud as a result of this security breach. Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office, the Financial... [20 Nov 2007]
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