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SOCA website taken down in DDoS attack

...Wednesday, and the site was taken offline at around 22.30, a SOCA spokesman told ZDNet UK on Thursday. The site remained offline at the... Read more

3 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

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

...acting as online shops for stolen bank card data. Image credit: Sophos SOCA said on Thursday that the domains were removed in a "day of... Read more

27 April, 2012 by David Meyer

SOCA: Police can monitor file download histories

...download histories, according to the Serious Organised Crime Agency. On Wednesday evening, SOCA hailed the success of an operation against music blog RnBXclusive, which provided... Read more

16 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Police threaten RnBXclusive music downloaders with jail

...on Tuesday morning in Leicestershire and the person has been bailed, a SOCA spokesman told ZDNet UK on Wednesday. The site itself has also been... Read more

15 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Soca to 'melt' into new National Crime Agency

...involve organised crime are then investigated by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca). Soca "is going to be melted into this larger agency", a Home... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Jack Clark

Nominet makes formal call for Soca takedown views

...look at." The policy change, suggested by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), would allow Nominet takedown powers if police or Nominet suspected that a... Read more

10 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Soca's legacy systems hampering crime operations

...be replaced to ensure continuity of business," Bill Hughes, director general of Soca, said on Wednesday at the Modernising Justice Through IT 2010 conference.If... Read more

10 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Plea date set for suspected Anonymous hackers

...distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and other organisations. The Anonymous and Lulzsec... Read more

30 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Anonymous claims Apple hack

...including a site takedown against the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca). Broadly, the campaigns by Anonymous have focused on pro-Wikileaks demonstrations, have... Read more

4 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Teenager charged over Anonymous DDoS attacks

...have participated in a DDoS attack on the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) on Monday. The charges also allege he took part in taking down... Read more

22 June, 2011 by David Meyer

Police launch £75m national database

The Police National Database, which includes the names of up to 15 million criminals, victims and other people of interest to the police, is now live, with every force in England and Wales hooked up Read more

22 June, 2011 by David Meyer

UK cybersecurity spending plans revealed

...way that leads to convictions," he said. The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) will put some of its allocation towards its analysis base, its deterrent... Read more

20 April, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Cybercrime policing to get £63m boost

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

16 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Get Safe Online warns of scareware scams

...people, Sharon Lemon, deputy cybercrime director for the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), said in the statement. "In recent cases, we have seen gangs employing... Read more

15 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Europe blocks UK bid to gain visa data

...to court to force the EU to allow agencies such as MI5, SOCA and the UK Border Agency to use the Visa Information System (VIS... Read more

8 November, 2010 by Kable

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