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Cyber Crime
White Papers In fact, many business victims of cyber crime fail to report attacks for fear of exposing their security vulnerabilities and damaging their credibility with clients. There are a number of ways in which cyber intruders can invade systems and cause...
[February 21, 2005, 2:00]
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]
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]
New Directions In Cyber-crime
White Papers Cyber-crime is on the increase. There are two main methods that can be used to manage the growth of cyber-crime. This white paper talks about cyber-crimes and what steps can be taken to safe-guard from these cyber-crimes.
[November 30, 2003, 22:55]
WITSA Statement On The Council Of Europe Draft Convention On Cyber-Crime
White Papers The majority of what are termed “cyber-crimes” is really violations of long-standing criminal law, perpetrated through the use of computers or information networks. The problems of crime using computers will rarely require the creation of new...
[February 6, 2004, 6:21]
G8 Nations Team Up To Fight Cyber-crime
News The G8 wants to see all member countries adopt similar laws on cyber-crime and to persuade other countries to adopt co-operative anti-cyber-crime laws. Certainly this [cyber-crime] is a world issue and it is very severe," he says.
[May 18, 2000, 11:03]
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]
Inter-jurisdictional Cooperation: A Case Study On Cyber Crime
White Papers His goal in working with the international group is to establish contacts with prosecutors worldwide on cyber crime. Attorney General Shurtleff quotes the U.S. General Accounting Office as estimating about 750,000 Internet fraud complaints...
[December 1, 2004, 23:00]
Trends In International Cyber Crime And Public-Private Countermeasures
White Papers A survey of recent international cyber crime has highlighted a number of trends, ranging from the widespread availability and sale of tools that automate cyber crime to the rise of organized criminal networks that use phishing, spyware, and other...
[April 14, 2006, 1:01]
Combating Cyber Crime: A Proactive Approach
White Papers The growing danger from cyber crimes-harmful acts committed from or against a computer or network-is beginning to claim attention in national capitals. Yet, in most countries, existing laws may be unenforceable against such acts.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Cyber Crime: The Next Challenge - An Overview Of The Challenges Faced By Law Enforcement While Investigating Computer Crimes In The Year 2000 And Beyond
White Papers One of the major threats to any system, whether it is a law enforcement agency or federal agency is the "Hacker". These individuals or groups can break into just about any system. They have unlimited resources, time, and in most cases motivation.
[February 25, 2005, 2:00]
Hackers: This Week's Cyber-crime Round-up
News Evidence of organised criminal computer hacking is finally beginning to hit the front pages. This week there have been no less than three major hack attacks of considerable significance to both the public and government.
[January 12, 2000, 16:04]
Government Reports Sharp Cyber-crime Rise
News Internet credit-card fraud is a flourishing industry, contrary to the assurances of e-commerce merchants, according to official crime figures released by the British government Tuesday. She comments: "Sometimes if a crime is related to the Internet...
[January 20, 2000, 10:20]
Organized Crime And Cyber-Crime: Implications For Business
White Papers The capabilities and opportunities provided by the Internet have transformed many legitimate business activities, augmenting the speed, ease, and range with which transactions can be conducted while also lowering many of the costs.
[December 2, 2004, 2:00]
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. For the most recent Cyber Crime stories, go to our latest Roundup Operation Trawler found that crime on the Net -- paedophilia...
[January 18, 2000, 10:40]
E-crime Tax?
Talkback It's arguable that cyber-crime is just like any other crime and that we already pay tax to cover that. Big businesses usually have an internal budget set aside to deal with cyber security issues, how would this proposal fit into that?
[March 18, 2008, 17:49]
Denial-of-Service: How Big Is This Threat?
News Addressing a Senate sub-committee of cyber crime last week, Freeh said the attacks against Yahoo! In short, even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber-intrusions, the problem is growing even faster," he told the committee.
[April 5, 2000, 13:20]
Toward An International Convention On Cyber Security
White Papers The case for international cooperation in dealing with cyber crime is overwhelming. The debate currently under way is over the form and scope such cooperation should take, and the extent to which the United States and other technologically advanced...
[November 6, 2004, 2:00]
Criminals Send Malware Levels Soaring
Talkback The present trend of using malware for committing organised crimes is a paradigm shift of the tradition crime to cyber crime and is on the penultimate stage of being originating and labeled as cyber terrorism.
[July 5, 2005, 5:41]
E-Crime: The Vladimir Levin Episode
White Papers The sentencing of Vladimir Levin on 24 February 1998 brought to a conclusion the most high profile case of cyber crime to date. This article briefly reports the episode of this high profile cyber crime.
[February 28, 2008, 6:15]
