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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]
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]
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]
Think Again - Cyber Crime, think your data isnt as attractive as theirs?
White Papers By 2015 IT security systems will need to detect over 400 threats a minute. Rethink your security and your most dangerous threat that is not on your radar and discover the SMART way to protect your business.
[June 5, 2009, 15:45]
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]
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]
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]
E-minister warns UK business of hacker threat
News The Government's e-minister Patricia Hewitt stated just how important fighting the forces of cyber-crime is to the government's vision of a digitally rejuvenated Britain at the Infosec conference in Olympia Tuesday.
[April 12, 2000, 9:15]
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 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]
UK police help fight outsourcing cybercrime
Talkback The cyber crimes are different from traditional crimes and fall within the domain of “white collar crime”. Now the Metropolitan Police and the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) have joined forces to set up a working party to tackle the increasing...
[July 13, 2005, 7:35]
Government to raise awareness of cybercrime
News The government has promised to advise Britain's Internet industry on how to defend itself against the growing threat of cyber crime at a computer security conference next week. The UK government takes cybercrime very seriously and recently gave...
[April 6, 2000, 9:21]
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]
Cybercrime losses on the slide
News While many headlines spell doom and gloom when it comes to computer-related misdeeds, the average losses at businesses due to cyber crime continue to drop, according to a new survey. Respondents in the 2005 survey reported an average of $204,000...
[June 15, 2006, 11:05]
Outrage over privacy violation in cybercrime treaty
News The Committee of Experts on Cyber Crime is meeting this week in Strasbourg, France, where it is rewriting the latest version of the treaty, designed to help the Council of Europe's 41 member nations fight computer and electronic crime.
[December 14, 2000, 8:45]
Cyber Crimes and Your Children
White Papers The best way to prevent cyber crime is to educate children about the types of cyber crimes, the cost of cyber crime to the victims, and the consequences for committing such crimes. As recently as September, 2003, a teenager was arrested for...
[February 21, 2005, 23:00]
Privacy advocates make plea to Echelon committee
News It is also concerned that the Cyber Crime Convention is breaking privacy rules. We note a serious lack of commitment to data protection principles within the draft Cyber Crime Convention," the submission states.
[March 22, 2001, 7:15]
