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Logica wins long-term £200m contract
News Logica shrugged off its New Year hangover on Wednesday morning and announced that it had signed a £200m contract to manage the IT services of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) of England and Wales. The Crown Prosecution Service is the Government...
[January 2, 2002, 12:30]
Nasa hacker to wait longer for prosecution decision
Blog The Crown Prosecution Service has said that self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon will have to wait to find out whether he will be prosecuted in the UK. Four weeks ago the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that Starmer should make a decision...
[February 16, 2009, 12:46]
Nasa hacker closer to extradition after CPS refusal
News The Crown Prosecution Service has decided it will not prosecute self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon in the UK, edging him closer to extradition to the US. McKinnon's diagnosis with Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autistic spectrum, had...
[February 26, 2009, 16:36]
Deadline set for Nasa-hacker prosecution decision
News The Crown Prosecution Service will give a decision in the next four weeks as to whether it will prosecute Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon. However, a prosecution in the UK by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) would mean the self-confessed hacker would...
[January 15, 2009, 15:39]
Campaigner fights on for BT-Phorm prosecution
News Alexander Hanff [pictured], a technologist who campaigns against Phorm's targeted advertising product, wrote on his No Deep Packet Inspection blog on Tuesday that he would be submitting evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) about the...
[October 15, 2008, 15:01]
Police right to hand over seized hardware, says judge
News A judge found that Northumbria police were right to hand the equipment to The Federation Against Copyright Theft, a private industry coalition, even after the Crown Prosecution Service had declined to pursue a public prosecution, legal site Out...
[November 17, 2009, 16:26]
Law may be updated to cover DoS attacks
News Our advice from the Crown Prosecution Service is that denial of service attacks are already covered by the Computer Misuse Act. The Home Office is also currently working with the Crown Prosecution Service, the police and industry representatives...
[December 11, 2002, 16:52]
Expert: CPS hack tool guidance 'confused'
News Guidelines published this week by the Crown Prosecution Service on how to interpret amendments to the Computer Misuse Act have been branded "confused" by a renowned security expert. For almost all [CMA] offences the prosecution has to prove intent...
[January 3, 2008, 16:51]
CPS refuses Nasa-hacker UK prosecution
Blog The Crown Prosecution Service has decided not to prosecute self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon in the UK. A UK prosecution would effectively have saved him from that. Despite growing support for McKinnon from parliamentarians and legal experts...
[February 26, 2009, 12:53]
Teenager may face appeal over email attacks
News The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is considering appealing a judge's decision that a teenager who was accused of bombarding a former employer with millions of emails had no case to answer. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons...
[January 5, 2006, 12:00]
Nasa hacker: I'll plead guilty in the UK
News The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) told ZDNet UK on Monday that it had received Todner's letter. We can confirm we received the correspondence, and are considering that correspondence," said a CPS spokesperson, who added that no timescale could be...
[January 12, 2009, 16:56]
Interesting points
Talkback "Gary McKinnon adnitted computer misuse but has always denied the alleged damage and very recent disclosure in court by the Crown Prosecution Service shows that the U.S have no evidence whatsoever of the alleged damage.
[August 7, 2009, 14:58]
Gary McKinnon has Always Denied the Alleged Damage
Talkback Gary McKinnon adnitted computer misuse but has always denied the alleged damage and very recent disclosure in court by the Crown Prosecution Service shows that the U.S have no evidence whatsoever of the alleged damage.
[August 7, 2009, 8:52]
MPs: Firms should take fight to cybercriminals
News This would allow private companies to tackle cases that the police and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) do not presently consider as priority matters," said APIG. Companies and individuals already have the right to bring private prosecutions, but...
[June 30, 2004, 15:15]
Email bomber to be electronically tagged
News This ruling was later challenged by the Crown Prosecution Service, and in May 2006 the case was sent back to the Magistrates Court. The prosecution dropped their demand that Lennon should pay costs amounting to £29,000, which arose from his attack...
[August 23, 2006, 12:40]
'Revenge' hack downed US port systems
News A UK hacker brought down the computer system of a major US port in a botched and potentially "catastrophic" denial of service revenge attack on another chatroom user, Southwark Crown Court heard on Tuesday.
[October 7, 2003, 16:10]
Accused hacker denies link to 'elite' group
News Giving evidence yesterday at Southwark Crown Court, Caffrey said he had seen evidence of Dry Ice and Friction's hacking ability in scripts for Zombies and Trojan Horses in a chatroom on a .tv domain that the two hackers had set up using stolen...
[October 14, 2003, 16:05]
Criminal Justice IT programme seeks suppliers
News The Criminal Justice Exchange will allow information sharing between the police, Crown Prosecution Service, Department for Constitutional Affairs, magistrates' courts, Youth Justice Boards and the National Offenders Management Service (NOMS).
[July 12, 2004, 15:15]
Clink for DrinkorDie software counterfeiters
News Given the lack of resources in the general criminal justice system and for cybercrime in particular, we now need to ask whether the CPS [Crown Prosection Service], its appointed counsel and NHTCU are making the proper value-for-money prosecution...
[May 6, 2005, 17:20]
Trojan defence acquits British teenager
News The UK teenager accused of launching a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) on the Port of Houston's IT systems was found not guilty at Southwark Crown Court on Friday of unauthorised modification of computer material.
[October 17, 2003, 12:58]
