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Cybercrime police aim to save UK £500m over four years

...AndrewHA on Flickr The government has allocated about £30m to fund the Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) until March 2015, to aid in its... Read more

29 March, 2011 by Nick Heath

Cyber cops to save UK £500m over next four years

Funding boost allows national unit to double manpower... The Police Central e-Crime Unit will be able to double its manpower thanks... Read more

28 March, 2011 by Nick Heath

Olympic Games' police to 'panic' over cybersecurity

...experience required to successfully manage the cybersecurity risks of the Olympics. The Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) was made responsible for policing the cybersecurity... Read more

14 February, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

PCeU to be rolled into National Crime Agency

...The Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit will be rolled into the National Crime Agency... Read more

15 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Essex teenager arrested for hacking and DDoS

...A 19-year-old man has been arrested by the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit following an investigation into network intrusions and distributed... Read more

21 June, 2011 by David Meyer

Cybercrime policing to get £63m boost

...Cybercrime experts from the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) will be allocated the monies as part... Read more

16 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Hackers hold bank to ransom over stolen data

...UK Metropolitan Police told ZDNet UK that to the knowledge of the Police Central e-Crime Unit, no UK banks had ever been held to... Read more

4 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Teenagers arrested over anti-terrorist hotline jam

...twice, with one charge relating to an "unconnected" investigation, the Met's Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) said in a statement. Both remain in... Read more

13 April, 2012

Gang members sentenced over Apple and Amazon fraud

...originally arrested in 2009 following a joint operation between the Met's Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) and the New York Police Department. "Inquiries... Read more

30 March, 2012

Man arrested over hacking of abortion provider site

...and obtaining limited information about the site's visitors. The Met's Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) raided an address in Wednesbury in the... Read more

9 March, 2012

LulzSec leader 'Sabu' was FBI informant

A prominent member of the LulzSec hacking group was an FBI informant, ZDNet UK understands. 'Sabu', whose real name... Read more

6 March, 2012

Man jailed for Facebook hack despite 'ethical' claims

...internal Facebook information. "This was a dynamic response that saw PCeU [Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit] officers, working alongside the FBI and North Yorkshire... Read more

20 February, 2012

GCHQ to take hub role in UK cybersecurity

The UK government has unveiled a new cybersecurity strategy, which calls on GCHQ to run a hub where businesses can put aside their hesitations to share information on threats between themselves and the public sector Read more

25 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

William Hague: 'Online crime is growing exponentially'

...the establishment of a new ministerial group on cybersecurity, funding for the Police Central e-Crime Unit and creating a Defence Cyber Operations Group - which... Read more

1 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

Police unit claims £140m success in e-crime crackdown

...by targeting online criminals, according to newly released figures. The Met's Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), is an 85-strong team whose remit... Read more

5 October, 2011 by Steve Ranger

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