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News The head of e-crime for the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), Sharon Lemon, has warned e-crime is so widespread it now plays a role in nearly every criminal investigation. Soca has also announced it plans to work more closely with online...
[19 Mar 2008]
News All 12 CIOs and IT directors on this week's CIO Jury are backing silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign for a dedicated national police e-crime unit, following the government's decision to hand over the now defunct National High-Tech Crime Unit...
[18 Mar 2008]
News Catherine Bowen, head of crime policy at the BRC, said: "The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) have not maintained those links with industry on business-related e-crime, we seem to have fallen off the bottom of the scale since the National...
[14 Mar 2008]
News Police, businesses and politicians have been calling for a dedicated cyber crime unit since the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) was absorbed into the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) in 2006.silicon.com has also this week launched...
[12 Mar 2008]
News Police, businesses and politicians say Britain is ill equipped to deal with the growing threat and have been demanding a dedicated e-crime police unit since the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) was absorbed into the Serious Organised Crime...
[12 Mar 2008]
News The UK used to have a dedicated police e-crime fighting body - called the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) - but this was rolled into the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) in April 2006. The decision to merge the NHTCU with Soca was not a...
[14 Feb 2008]
News Organisations must currently report any attacks on their network or data to local police computer crime units and there is concern at the lack of co-ordination since the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit was essentially disbanded in 2006 and rolled into...
[08 Oct 2007]
News But last year the NHCTU was rolled into the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). SOCA said the NHTCU has become the core of the e-crime unit of SOCA, with an expanded remit and greater resources.
[19 Jul 2007]
News The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), which has now replaced the NHTCU, confirmed the three had been jailed and fined 100,000 roubles (£2,000) each. However, Soca declined to say whether the convictions would help reduce cyber crime in the UK...
[05 Oct 2006]
News The Home Office is proposing law enforcement such as the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) be allowed to break through the red tape of the Data Protection Act to access a number of databases - with the hope this would help capture more criminals.
[18 Jul 2006]
Comment One of my contacts at the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) in the UK put me in touch. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get behind some of today's most interesting tech and business stories.
[08 Jun 2006]
News Cases such as the Archiveus incident would previously have been dealt with by the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), which was amalgamated into the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) in April.
[05 Jun 2006]
News This comes in the same week the UK's new FBI-style crime-fighting agency Soca warned that criminal gangs planting computer-savvy insiders at an organisation is one of the biggest security threats faced by companies today.
[28 Apr 2006]
News Speaking today at the Infosecurity conference in London, Tony Neate, e-crime liaison for the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), said insider 'plants' are causing significant damage to companies. Soca was formed earlier this month, combining...
[25 Apr 2006]
Leader But one of the lesser-noted implications of the launch of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) is the fate of the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), which along with a number of other specialist groups has been rolled into the agency.
[04 Apr 2006]
Comment The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) is to bring 4,000 specialist agents together and the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) - the UK's computer police - has become part of the new body. One of the objectives of SOCA is to launch a crackdown...
[04 Apr 2006]
News Drug trafficking, organised immigration crime, money laundering and identity fraud will be the main targets of the new Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), dubbed the UK's FBI. SOCA has been formed by combining the National Crime Squad, the...
[03 Apr 2006]
Comment The government's new crime-fighting organisation, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), is going to be a key weapon in ensuring a safe online environment. As a strong believer in accredited self-regulation, I can see value in Ofcom and Soca...
[13 Mar 2006]
News Gibson said the decision to roll the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) into a new larger agency, The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), in April 2006 would actually make it harder for businesses to work out to whom they should report an...
[02 Feb 2006]
News The National Crime Squad, the National Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and various companies are involved in the project, which will be affiliated to the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).
[15 Jun 2005]
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