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Japanese police tune biometrics for foreign suspects
News Japanese police have turned to Australian scientists to help develop facial-recognition technology capable of distinguishing between people of non-Japanese extraction. The police body said that it was having increasing difficulty dealing with...
[June 20, 2003, 8:43]
ISPs, telcos and police voice fears over data retention cost
Talkback I was very interested to see your article on compliance: ‘ISPs, telcos and police voice fears over data retention cost'. ISPs should not be wary of these proposals, but rather should be welcoming them.
[January 13, 2006, 15:17]
Computer hardware thefts investigated by police
News Police raided 20 addresses in London Wednesday night, uncovering details of a suspected computer theft ring thought responsible for multi-million pound robberies on major banks across the capital. A spokesman for Islington police station, which...
[November 30, 2000, 11:09]
UK police face increasing pressure from high-tech crime
News Police forces are facing a £350m shortfall in budgets as chief police officers are struggling to juggle funds because of new responsibilities, such as fighting cybercrime. In its National Strategic Assessment , the Association of Chief Police...
[November 23, 2004, 15:05]
Mafiaboy arrested by police again
News Mafiaboy has again been arrested by Montreal police for violating bail by playing truant from high school, according to Associated Press. The teenager alleged to have jammed some of the largest sites on the Internet earlier this year has been...
[December 7, 2000, 12:13]
IPCC probes police memory-stick loss
News The Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an inquiry into the loss of a memory stick from West Midlands Police. West Midlands Police would not comment on press reports that the stick contained information on terror suspects.
[September 17, 2008, 10:32]
It's a fair cop as Police admits 'spam attack'
News The Cambridgeshire Police Authority has held up its hands to a major email blunder which resulted in an unsolicited email being sent to around 4,000 businesses - with their email addresses contained in the CC field of the message header.
[December 6, 2002, 17:03]
US homeland security to police the Net
News It gives the government a major role in securing operating systems, hardware and the Internet, including allowing for more police surveillance of the Net; punishing malicious computer hackers with up to life in prison; establishing a national...
[November 21, 2002, 11:55]
Worm claims Sussex Police computers
Talkback Even my 102-year-old grandma has patched Windows against this virus by now - it's unbelievable that the Sussex police force failed to do so. Who's in charge of their IT - Homer Simpson?
[August 27, 2003, 15:57]
Swedish police claim major internet-piracy bust
News Swedish police on Friday reported making a major internet-piracy bust. The police, who carried out the raid on 9 February, only disclosed the news on Friday. The police raid took place just before the individuals behind The Pirate Bay website went...
[March 10, 2009, 13:46]
Police want power to seize encryption keys
Talkback Some might think that the police would have enough resources. I believe some years ago some Israel scientists proved that PGP can be broken by means of some sort of brute force attack within 8 hours using about a 1000 common PC's or so.
[August 20, 2006, 21:47]
EC gives 'police remote search' answers
Blog After chasing the European Commission for over a week about what exactly it meant by police being able to perform "remote searches" of systems, one of the Commission spokespeople finally got back to me.
[December 8, 2008, 16:37]
Bouncing little robots aid the US police and military
News Picture the scene: you're merrily walking along minding your own business when suddenly you're apprehended by a bunch of tiny bouncing police robots. Tiny robots that jump and roll around and are "shaped like toilet rolls" (for what reason we don't...
[November 11, 1999, 12:17]
Police want power to seize encryption keys
Talkback Some might think that the police would have enough resources. If they have broken it, they have not revealed this to any police agency, much less the techniques for doing this. Arthur B.wrote: Quote] I believe some years ago some Israel scientists...
[August 21, 2006, 17:14]
Creating Police Accident and Crime Scene Diagrams Using SmartDraw
White Papers Pulling double duty as Police Supervisor and Training Officer for an agency serving 38,000 residents is no easy task. In addition to overseeing day-to-day operations and police work, Rob Crespy was responsible for creating numerous diagrams for...
[April 15, 2009, 1:22]
Dutch police and FBI crack Shadow botnet
News Victims of the Shadow botnet who were contacted by the Dutch police were directed to a Kaspersky page containing instructions on how to fix their machines, as well as a website giving details on how to file a complaint with the police.
[August 14, 2008, 15:00]
High-tech police tackle Internet crime
News Deputy general of NCIS Roger Gaspar admits that the police do not fully realise the extent to which the Internet is being used by criminals -- one of the first jobs of NHTCU will be to find out. Home secretary Jack Straw today launched the UK's...
[April 18, 2001, 10:19]
CCIII Hong Kong Police: Third Generation Command and Control Communication System
White Papers The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) has a force of 28,000 uniformed officers and a supporting civilian staff of 7,500. Motorola provided a fully TETRA compliant Dimetra IP system operating in the 410-430 MHz band.master switches (zones), one for each...
[March 22, 2005, 23:00]
Soca: Russian cyber-gang bribed police
News The Russian Business Network, an ISP that sheltered online criminal activity, bought off local police and judiciary, according to the Serious Organised Crime Agency. The local constables bribed by the company hindered international police efforts...
[October 22, 2009, 13:29]
Australian police probe government cyberattack
News The Australian Federal Police has been called in to investigate a planned denial-of-service attack on Australian government web servers due to occur at 7pm tonight. The Australian Federal Police are leading the investigation into these cyberattacks...
[September 9, 2009, 12:01]
