Police force hit with iPod DoS attack
News Malicious spammers have hit Cambridgeshire police with a denial of service attack by threatening recipients of emails to charge their credit cards unless they call a 'customer service' number that is actually the main switchboard number for the...
[December 5, 2003, 14:45]
Man charged with iPod email hoax
News Cambridgeshire Police have confirmed they have made an arrest in connection with the denial of service attack that hit the force last week. The denial of service attack saw the Cambridgeshire police switchboard flooded with calls last week, after a...
[December 9, 2003, 16:00]
It's a fair cop as Police admits 'spam attack'
News The Cambridgeshire Police Authority has held up its hands to a major email blunder which resulted in an unsolicited email being sent to around 4,000 businesses - with their email addresses contained in the CC field of the message header.
[December 6, 2002, 17:03]
Criminal caught on (Web) camera
News Detective Sergeant Alan Page, head of Cambridgeshire Police Burglary Squad, told the media: "The webcam made our job really easy. Ben Park, 19, of Cambridgeshire was sentenced to 11 months in prison for burgling the home of Duncan Grisby, a...
[February 17, 2005, 15:10]
UK spammer jailed over £1.6m scam
News The number belonged to Cambridgeshire Police, who had recently arrested Francis-Macrae, and the attack jammed the force's network. Peter Francis-Macrae of Cambridgeshire was found guilty of fraudulent trading, concealing criminal property...
[November 17, 2005, 9:25]
Man accused of £1.5m Web scams
News The number belonged to Cambridgeshire Police, who had recently arrested Francis-Macrae, and the attack jammed the force's network. Francis-Macrae is charged with making threats to kill against two women and a man, threatening to destroy or damage...
[October 12, 2005, 10:40]
Manchester Police come under cyberattack
News Cambridgeshire Police were subject to a similar DoS attack almost two years ago when thousands of spam emails told recipients their credit cards were about to be charged for an iPod they had just bought unless they phoned a customer service number.
[May 3, 2005, 15:40]
Manchester police call for backup after cyberattack
News Cambridgeshire Police were subject to a similar attack almost two years ago when thousands of spam emails told recipients their credit cards were about to be charged for an iPod they had just bought unless they phoned a customer service number.
[July 12, 2005, 17:25]
Home Office promises national intelligence system
News The pledge came from Home Secretary David Blunkett in response to the publication on 22 June by Sir Michael Bichard of his findings into the way the investigation of Soham murderer Ian Huntley was carried out by Cambridgeshire and Humberside police.
[June 23, 2004, 11:50]
Government funds handheld police computers
News The 27 forces sharing the funds are the Metropolitan Police Service, all eight forces in Scotland, the British Transport Police and the constabularies of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Humberside, Kent...
[May 27, 2008, 13:27]
