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E-crime unit 'on track' despite funding delay
News Plans for a national UK cybercrime policing unit remain on track despite the government stalling on funding, according to the Metropolitan Police Service's e-crime chief . Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie, one of the architects of the...
[June 16, 2008, 8:39]
Fears over funding for police e-crime unit
News From spring 2009, the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), announced on Tuesday by the Home Office, will co-ordinate law enforcement efforts against all online offences and lead national investigations into the most serious e-crime.
[October 2, 2008, 7:58]
Police e-crime unit seeks industry recruits
News Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie of the Metropolitan Police Service — one of the architects of the Police Central e-Crime Unit announced on Tuesday — has proposed recruiting individuals from industry to assist the unit with investigations.
[October 2, 2008, 8:30]
E-crime unit seeks insight from IT industry
News The Metropolitan Police's nascent e-crime unit is stepping up its efforts to communicate with UK businesses, inviting 150 corporate security professionals to a consultation later this month. The Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) event will take...
[February 10, 2009, 11:04]
Government to launch cyber crime unit
News The Home Office has given the go ahead for the setting up of a cyber crime unit and thrown £337,000 at the project. Operation Trawler found that crime on the Net -- paedophilia, fraud and hate sites -- was an increasing problem.
[January 18, 2000, 10:40]
Police e-crime unit set for gov't go-ahead
News The UK's proposed central e-crime police unit is close to securing the necessary government funding to make it a reality, according to one of the architects of the project. Traditional crime has moved online and law enforcement needs to get there...
[April 28, 2008, 8:24]
Government launches new e-crime unit
Blog A new £7M police unit dedicated to tackling cyber crime and clamping down on internet fraud was announced by e-crime Minister Vernon Coaker today. I was at a meeting last week with Microsoft's security advisor and ex-FBI agent Ed Gibson (speaking...
[September 30, 2008, 14:45]
High-Tech Crime Unit snubs Infosec
News The British government's new force for combating computer hackers -- the National High-Tech Computer Crime Unit (NHTCU) -- has turned down the opportunity to represent itself at a roundtable held at the UK's top conference on computer security, to...
[April 25, 2001, 9:56]
Businesses may be forced to fund e-crime unit
News Businesses would be forced to contribute to the funding of a national police e-crime unit under the current proposal being considered by the Home Office. But the private sector has hit back, saying the core funding for a dedicated police unit to...
[March 18, 2008, 7:24]
Police e-crime unit calls for industry aid
News The UK's new e-crime unit wants industry to help out in the battle against online fraud. Police are now in talks with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and other industry bodies about using online investigators at banks and retailers to...
[December 11, 2008, 7:15]
MPs demand more funding for e-crime unit
News MPs have called for more money to fund a new e-crime unit and end the image the UK is a "soft touch" on cybercrime. In a parliamentary debate on internet fraud on Wednesday, MPs said the government needs to "look again" at the £7m funding for the...
[November 6, 2008, 6:30]
Microsoft: Police e-crime unit 'giant step forward'
News The Police Central e-Crime Unit has been hailed as a "giant step forward" by Microsoft's UK security adviser, Ed Gibson. Speaking at a press event at the RSA Conference Europe 2008 on Tuesday, Gibson said businesses had perceived that there had...
[October 30, 2008, 15:55]
Industry expects e-crime unit to 'knock on doors'
News Asked whether the creation of the PCeU is an acknowledgement that the government got it wrong when it absorbed the NHTCU into Soca, Janet Williams, Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner for the Specialist Crime Directorate, who is...
[October 23, 2008, 15:23]
Hi-Tech Crime Unit probes viruses for terrorism links
Talkback I quote: Sobig.F carried a type of "Trojan'' program, so named because it embeds itself on an infected machine and gives the virus writer the capability of controlling the computer from a remote location.
[October 14, 2003, 14:59]
Police chief's departure won't halt e-crime plans
News The development of a centralised e-crime unit is to go ahead, the Metropolitan Police has said, despite the departure of the project's main proponent. Commander Sue Wilkinson has been leading a project that aims to create a Police Central e-Crime...
[October 4, 2007, 16:03]
Hi-tech police to join new UK force
News The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) will be a key plank of the UK government's plans to tackle 21st-century organised crime with a new FBI-style crime-fighting agency. Bill Hughes, director general of the National Crime Squad, said in a...
[February 10, 2004, 10:45]
Official: Cybercrime is growing
News The UK's online police force, the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), has confirmed that the level of crime on the Internet is growing. Later this year, the unit will launch "Project Endurance", a UK-wide IT security-awareness campaign, and next...
[April 1, 2005, 14:30]
Confidential reports to aid cybercrime crackdown
News The head of Britain's National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) is calling for a confidential channel for UK businesses to report cybercrime attacks. Speaking at a global law enforcement conference in Edinburgh on Wednesday, detective chief...
[June 22, 2001, 13:02]
News Burst: Cybersquad to combat computer crime
News The home secretary Jack Straw will announce plans to create a £20m National High-Tech Crime Unit Monday morning according to reports Sunday. The special unit, which will include members of the police, customs and excise, the National Crime Squad...
[November 13, 2000, 9:59]
Tories attack gov't over cybercrime delay
News The Tories have launched a stinging attack on the government's failure to pay £1.3m to fund a national e-crime policing unit. The unit would provide leadership and expertise to co-ordinate investigations nationwide and collate reports from police...
[April 4, 2008, 8:46]
