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Internet pioneer charged under RIP Act

...illegal interception of communications. Stanford, who was arrested by officers of the National High-Tech Crime Unit and charged on Thursday, is accused of illegally... Read more

13 February, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Lack of reporting hits cybercrime fight

...unless more cybercrime is reported. To try to break the cycle, the National High-Tech Crime Unit is introducing new measures such as confidentiality agreements... Read more

25 April, 2002 by Matt Loney

Firms keeping quiet about e-crime

With the phishing threat sharply up, police estimate that high-tech crime is costing the UK billions of pounds every year Read more

24 February, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

UK police chief: Shut down 'abhorrent' Web sites

The Internet is no place for people looking for 'perverse gratification', claims the police officer leading the UK's fight against e-crime Read more

24 February, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Book review: Fatal System Error

...but couldn't get the FBI to follow through. The UK's National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), however, was a different story, and Menn... Read more

24 May, 2010

Government launches new e-crime unit

...has just landed in my in-box. Having spoken to some ex National High Tech Crime Unit coppers, none of them seemed very happy to... Read more

30 September, 2008

City of London pilots cybercrime scheme

...crimes, credit card theft, phishing and hacking. The pilot comes after the National High Tech Crime Unit, set up in April 2001 in response to... Read more

6 June, 2008 by Kable

Soca reveals its cybercrime-fighting successes

...how many of its 2,033 arrests were related to cybercrime. The National High Tech Crime Unit (NHCTU) was rolled into Soca in 2006, prompting... Read more

16 May, 2008 by Nick Heath
Locating the real threats to corporate security

Locating the real threats to corporate security

With organised criminals seizing the opportunities of cybercrime, how accurate is the established belief that company insiders are the biggest threat to IT security? Read more

27 July, 2007 by Tom Espiner

Police told: Resign to join SOCA

...Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). To join SOCA, which effectively supplants the National High Tech Crime Unit, it appears that police have to resign and... Read more

24 April, 2007
Tracking e-crime

Tracking e-crime

...the agency has been widely criticised for lacking the focus of the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) which it subsumed. Last year, ex-FBI... Read more

29 January, 2007 by Leader

Met criticises local police e-crime response

...petty nature. Such cases would previously have been dealt with by the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), which was amalgamated into the Serious Organised... Read more

13 October, 2006 by Tom Espiner

Hollywood ensures cyberterror myth will Die Hard

...cases of real damage done to real people. Unfortunately, the UK's National High Tech Crime Unit no longer exists, having been subsumed into the... Read more

3 August, 2006 by Andrew Donoghue

Police will not pursue ransom hackers

...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... Read more

2 June, 2006 by Tom Espiner

Former Wonderland Club member jailed again

...entire sentence next time he is convicted. Police in Sussex and the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) arrested the second-time offender, and charged... Read more

1 November, 2004 by Dan Ilet

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