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SOCA: Police can monitor file download histories

...copyright-infringing files have deleted their download histories, according to the Serious Organised Crime Agency. On Wednesday evening, SOCA hailed the success of an operation... Read more

16 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Police threaten RnBXclusive music downloaders with jail

...The UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency has arrested a proprietor of RnBXclusive, a website that allegedly... Read more

15 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Detica: 80 percent of internet crime is 'co-ordinated'

...only around five percent of online crime is being committed by traditional organised crime groups involved in mafia-like operations, report author Mike McGuire told... Read more

29 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Mobile fingerprint readers put into police hands

...on Tuesday that 25 police forces in the UK, including the Serious Organised Crime Agency, are being issued with MobileID handsets. The fingerprint-checking devices... Read more

19 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Organised crime plots 85 percent of data breaches

Organised criminals were credited with 85 percent of all stolen data last year, according to a study of data breaches Read more

28 July, 2010 by Elinor Mills

SOCA website taken down in DDoS attack

...The Serious Organised Crime Agency has taken its website offline due to a distributed denial... Read more

3 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

'LulzSec' threatens to post UK census data online

Shortly after launching an attack on the website of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, a message purporting to come from the hacker group LulzSec... Read more

21 June, 2011

Soca admits DDoS attack, claims secure info safe

The Serious Organised Crime Agency, or Soca, has admitted coming under a distributed denial-of... Read more

21 June, 2011

LulzSec claims Soca site takedown

...LulzSec claims to have attacked the website of the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency, also known as Soca. In a message posted to Twitter... Read more

20 June, 2011

Cybercrime policing to get £63m boost

...government has said. Photo credit: Metropolitan Police Cybercrime experts from the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU... Read more

16 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Nominet makes formal call for Soca takedown views

...for fast takedowns of websites and domains, following proposals by the Serious Organised Crime Agency. The call, which asks interested parties to examine whether Nominet... Read more

10 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Soca's legacy systems hampering crime operations

...The legacy computer systems used by Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency cannot cope with their intended workload, meaning they are in... Read more

10 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

SOCA raids 'e-commerce-style' card data sites

...The Serious Organised Crime Agency and the FBI have had 36 websites taken down because... Read more

27 April, 2012 by David Meyer

Alleged LulzSec hackers' plea date moved

...attacks on the websites of a number of organisations, including the Serious Organised Crime Agency, the CIA, News International, and Sony. Cleary is individually accused... Read more

11 May, 2012

CloudFlare: How we got caught in LulzSec-CIA crossfire

...the site to publicise its hacks against Sony, the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency and others, and to get Bitcoin donations. When they took... Read more

1 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

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