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Crime surge sparks calls for internet Interpol
News Interpol, which helps national police forces to work together, has a financial and hi-tech crime sub-directorate that investigates cybercrime, including botnet activity. According to detective chief inspector Charlie McMurdie of the Metropolitan...
[December 12, 2006, 16:15]
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Dark Motives demo
Downloads Every fingerprint, bite mark, or human toe can bring your closer to the truth in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Dark Motives. Along with the entire cast of CSI, you'll use a new crime lab to track down the culprits in five crimes.
[September 16, 2004, 2:22]
Crime in Focus
White Papers Crime mapping has become part of an official UK Government 'pledge'. This should provide the public, press and politicians with important insights into the crime profile of their neighbourhood. Crime mapping will also be an important channel...
[August 25, 2009, 1:22]
Crime agency prepares for £500m tech revamp
News The Serious Organised Crime Agency is preparing to embark on a £500m project to integrate its IT systems. Soca currently uses a mix of systems it took on from the National Crime Squad, the National Criminal Intelligence Service and part of the...
[December 11, 2008, 17:04]
Crime statistics Web 2.0
Blog As promised by pre-election Boris Johnson, the trials of interactive crime maps are currently up and running aiming for official release in September. Once clicked each area displays a pop-up that gives 3 tabs of data, the first shows the current...
[August 15, 2008, 15:36]
Crime Spree
Downloads In Crime Spree drive the getaway car, collect cash, and outrun the cops in this car chase adventure. As a driver for the mob, race through the city as fast as you can looking for loot while dropping oil slicks to wipe out the approaching police.
[June 3, 2009, 10:40]
A Deterrent for (potential) Crime
Talkback This is all beginning to sound a bit like the idea of PreCrime - following a lead that may eventually turn into a crime. You are currently under suspicion of being a threat to others or of conducting unlawful activity (or other) and are being...
[March 27, 2009, 4:35]
Crime 'more serious online than off'
News The level of organised crime targeting the Internet as a vehicle for its illicit activity is increasing sharply, according to the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit. In his opening address to the UK's first e-crime congress on Monday, DCS Hynds...
[December 9, 2002, 9:07]
Crime, but no punishment for Microsoft
Talkback "Crime, but no punishment for Microsoft "? This is the biggest piece of drivel I have seen here for quite a while. Who writes this garbage for ZDNET anyway? When exactly did a fine of over $600 Million (the highest in EU history) become "no...
[June 17, 2005, 18:49]
Organised crime 'will attack ID cards database'
News Organised crime will try and crack the identity cards database - the National Identity Register (NIR) - the Liberal Democrats have warned. Last year it was revealed that the identities of 13,000 civil servants had been stolen and used by criminals...
[May 18, 2006, 9:05]
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]
Businesses lack confidence in police e-crime handling
News Businesses are not confident that the police have the necessary resources or technical knowledge to deal with e-crime effectively, a survey has found. The survey, Is Organised Electronic Crime On The Rise?
[November 3, 2008, 16:27]
Cyber Crime Report: dedicated units needed
News The report calls for sweeping changes in British legislation and a dedicated Cyber Crime Unit to cope. Full story to follow
[June 22, 1999, 12:48]
Project Trawler: Cyber crime in the UK
News Project Trawler -- the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) three-year study into cyber crime in the UK -- has found that paedophiles and criminals using the Net for secure communication are the two biggest problems facing law enforcement...
[June 22, 1999, 17:05]
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]
Hackers: HotSynced for crime
News Assuming she had a larcenous bent, Ventura could have simply copied down credit card numbers with pencil and paper, sparing the Palm any further taint of criminality, and sparing herself the national exposure and artificially amped-up sentencing...
[December 2, 1999, 10:43]
Police get go ahead for cyber crime squad
News The long-awaited cyber crime unit moves a step closer Tuesday as the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the Home Office approve the plan. The high tech crime unit, as it is expected to be called, will draw on expertise from other...
[October 26, 1999, 15:12]
Net hits back at UK crime
News A crime-fighting Web site that employs email to tip-off the police was launched Friday by Crimestoppers Trust. Director of the Crimestoppers Trust Digby Carter, believes the Internet will increasingly play a part in the fight against crime.
[October 4, 1999, 11:02]
Industry expects e-crime unit to 'knock on doors'
News The rise of e-crime is no longer news. But could UK law-enforcement agencies have done more to prevent internet and IT-related crime reaching a value of £6bn per year, the latest figure reported by the Department for Business, Enterprise...
[October 23, 2008, 15:23]
Exclusive: Case sets precedent for Internet crime
News Under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, every computer involved in a crime needs to have a certificate to prove it was working properly when the crime was committed. Jauch believes Hardy's ruling has huge implications for fighting Internet crime.
[September 6, 1999, 13:36]
