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SOCA website taken down in DDoS attack

The Serious Organised Crime Agency instructed its hosting provider to take its website offline after a distributed denial of service attack started to affect other clients Read more

3 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Seventeen-year-old arrested over TeamPoison attacks

...and major international businesses and organisations, ZDNet UK understands. The boy, who police suspect used the hacker nickname 'MLT' and was a spokesman for TeamPoison... Read more

10 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Ransomware locks up PCs in fake anti-piracy campaign

...unless they hand over the right amount of money. Criminals posing as police are demanding money to unlock PCs. Image credit: Abuse.ch Spotted by... Read more

8 May, 2012 by Lance Whitney

Kim Dotcom could reclaim assets after paperwork error

...above), after admitting they made a procedural error. Image credit: New Zealand Police Police arrested Dotcom at the mansion he lived in outside Auckland on... Read more

19 March, 2012 by Greg Sandoval

RIM helps police inquiries into London riots

...BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has promised to help police looking into the use of social media to co-ordinate riots in... Read more

8 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

SOCA: Police can monitor file download histories

...Police officers have been tracking when downloaders of copyright-infringing files have deleted... Read more

16 February, 2012 by David Meyer

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

...involved the US Department of Justice (DoJ). As part of this, British police arrested two men for allegedly buying large amounts of data from the... Read more

27 April, 2012 by David Meyer
UK Sentinel study reveals GPS jammer use

UK Sentinel study reveals GPS jammer use

...Government-funded trials involving the police have revealed more than a hundred incidents of GPS jammer use in... Read more

22 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Police and BT target cable thieves

...The Metropolitan Police has launched a unit to tackle copper cable theft following a spate... Read more

19 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Report: Met Police uses fake network to intercept calls

...The Metropolitan Police force is using covert surveillance technology that can shut off mobile phones... Read more

1 November, 2011 by Marguerite Reardon

Police say Twitter and BBM gave riot 'intelligence

...and Twitter were responsible for facilitating last week's UK riots, senior police figures have revealed they did not request that the services be switched... Read more

17 August, 2011 by Jo Best

Met police requests to TfL for passenger data hit 22,000

...The Metropolitan Police has requested Oyster card data and other personal data from Transport for... Read more

10 February, 2012 by Sade Laja

Police set to launch three £30m e-crime hubs

...The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) has announced that three new police hubs to tackle web... Read more

9 February, 2012 by Sade Laja

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

...The Metropolitan Police's digital crime unit has saved the economy more than £140m in... Read more

5 October, 2011 by Steve Ranger

Busted: Police unit saves UK £140m in crackdown on digital crime

The Met Police continues to target online criminals... The Metropolitan Police's digital crime unit... Read more

3 October, 2011 by Steve Ranger

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SoapyTablet

'Cut Price' Data Roaming? The price has been cut, but it is certainly not 'cut price' in the sense of the phrase, and nowhere near local EU data...

1 hour ago by SoapyTablet on Cut-price data roaming gets all-clear for July
apexwm

BrownieBoy: "Such crashes are normally down to the OS and/or a rogue application, which could be fixed by re-imaging. Everybody knows how Windows...

2 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Thomas Gellhaus

I've just started using it too, and like you I feel that Fedora is a fine GNOME 3 showcase distribution. I am torn, though, because I checked out...

2 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Fedora 17 - The "Beefy Miracle" Arrives
pjc158

Why is it that Newzealand has the guts to stand up to the USA and ask to see the evidence and we don't!

2 hours ago by pjc158 on Judge orders US to share MegaUpload evidence
Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

4 hours ago by Dean Talboys via Facebook on Assange loses extradition battle in Supreme Court
SoapyTablet

Wouldn't surprise me if Samsung actually really had problems producing the white model (as Apple did - it would make more sense) and this non-story...

5 hours ago by SoapyTablet on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

8 hours ago by Lonnie on Screenshots: Photoshop CS6 Beta
BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

15 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

16 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

17 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

19 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

21 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

21 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

21 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

23 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

1 day ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

1 day ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

1 day ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

1 day ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC