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Eighty people caught in Net paedophile ring
News The Home-Office-commissioned National High-Tech Crime Unit was launched last Wednesday, highlighting a government commitment to crack down on computer-based crime. Last month, 48 search warrants were executed by Greater Manchester's Obscene...
[April 23, 2001, 16:35]
News Roundup: Infosec 2001 unfolds
News UK employers crack down on Net use Tue, 24 April UK bosses are the first to crack down on Net use at work, but can they be blamed when the official guidelines are still eight months away? Mon, 23 Apr Hackers crack challenge within 24 hours, and...
[April 25, 2001, 15:15]
Exclusive: Government will not prioritise paedophile cases
News The cybersquad was launched by home secretary Jack Straw in November to crack down on Internet crime. Promises that Internet paedophiles would be dealt with as a "top priority" by the government's new High-Tech Crime Unit have been undermined by...
[February 12, 2001, 11:52]
High tech crime chief calls for new Internet laws
News Last month the largest proactive investigation ever undertaken in the UK to crack down on Internet child pornography was executed by Manchester's Obscene Publications Unit. Bill Hughes voiced his concerns during the launch of the UK's National High...
[April 18, 2001, 14:21]
Police disorganisation blamed for rise in Net crime
News A Metropolitan police chief has blamed lack of organisation in the police force for Britain's failure to crack down on Internet child pornography. Thirteen suspected paedophiles were arrested Wednesday, as part of Britain's biggest ever police...
[January 18, 2001, 15:11]
iPhone's remote wiping may help crooks cover tracks
News There are ways around it but it is something we can't crack; we need a pass to get around that. The 21-strong unit, which hunts out incriminating evidence from crime scenes, uses a number of hi-tech tools to get the sensitive data needed by the...
[September 3, 2008, 8:33]
Encryption foils Internet child porn prosecutions
News In the 14 countries that were invited to participate in Operation Cathedral -- the international police investigation into the Wonderland Club -- many prosecutions failed because police computer experts were unable to crack the encryption codes...
[August 3, 2001, 14:10]
Twelve arrested for laundering phished funds
News Computers, passports, cheque books, bank cards, money and crack cocaine were seized. The National Hi-tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has arrested six men and six women, with help from the National Crime Squad, the FBI and the US Secret Service.
[May 5, 2004, 13:55]
Police: Not enough evidence for paedophile crackdown
News Police and cyberliberty advocates expressed a continuing need for tangible evidence of Internet child abuse on Tuesday before a more proactive approach will be taken in Britain to crack down on Net paedophiles.
[March 22, 2001, 11:25]
DVD Jon seeks compensation
News Johansen, who was allegedly a part of a group known as the Masters of Reverse Engineering, or MoRE, simply helped in writing the program that used the existing CSS crack to de-scramble the discs. Yes, it was MoRE who did DeCSS, but the actual crack...
[January 28, 2004, 10:20]
Paedophile swoop nets 13-year-old
News Suspected paedophiles as young as 13 years old have been arrested on Tuesday by the largest proactive investigation ever undertaken in the UK to crack down on Internet child pornography. Jones explains that in his experience, the task of proving...
[March 28, 2001, 8:20]
Broadband will impede cybercops
News Britain's cybercops are concerned that "always-on" Internet connections will jeopardise their access to vital ISP traffic data needed to crack down on online crime. Speaking at a European Commission forum on cybercrime last Wednesday, detective...
[March 13, 2001, 15:35]
Cyberterror threats dismissed
News A controversial UK security vendor is calling for the creation of a World Security Organisation (WSO) to crack down on 'cyberterror' as well as real world threats by air, land, sea and space. DK Matai's speech entitled Cyberland Security: Organised...
[February 10, 2005, 8:45]
Cybercrime laws aren't working, says minister
News There's a need for a real international effort to crack cybercrime," said Murphy. Murphy's comments came just days after the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) warned that it was struggling to cope with the international nature of e-crime...
[October 28, 2005, 13:00]
Big Brother in the black box
News Governments world wide are attempting to increase surveillance powers in an effort to crack down on Internet-related crimes. The reason we support the RIP Bill," says a representative from Scotland Yard's Computer Crime Unit, "is that it gives us...
[July 13, 2000, 9:56]
Hi-tech police to join new UK force
News The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) will tackle crimes such as people-smuggling and drug-trafficking - and part of its remit will be to crack down on the increasingly hi-tech methods gangs use to carry out these crimes and launder the proceeds.
[February 10, 2004, 10:45]
Dutch cyber snoops remotely access net crime
News Those liberal Dutch police, no doubt inspired by ZDNet's recent Surveillance coverage, announced this week a dedicated cyber-crime that will have the power to crack into a suspect's computer remotely with a "cyber search warrant" from a Dutch court.
[October 7, 1999, 11:36]
Government launches new e-crime unit
Blog The new Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) will provide specialist officer training and co-ordinate cross-force initiatives to crack down on on-line offences. A new £7M police unit dedicated to tackling cyber crime and clamping down on internet...
[September 30, 2008, 14:45]
Fears over funding for police e-crime unit
News The unit will also train officers in local forces in dealing with hi-tech crimes and co-ordinate "initiatives to crack down on online offences". From spring 2009, the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), announced on Tuesday by the Home Office, will...
[October 2, 2008, 7:58]
DVD cracker indicted for DeCSS program
News Jon Johansen, who helped create software that makes it possible to crack DVD security, faces up to two years in jail on charges originally designed to protect phone and bank records. On Wednesday, Norway's economic crime unit accused Johansen of...
[January 11, 2002, 13:39]
