Fresh Calls For Data-breach Law
News Companies would learn to take preventative action," said detective inspector Charlie McMurdie of the Met's Specialist Crime Unit. Howard Shaw, detective sergeant with the Met's Specialist Crime Unit, said: "It's a question of how to dovetail the...
[September 14, 2007, 10:08]
Police: We're Overwhelmed By E-crime
News In a report written by detective chief inspector Charlie McMurdie of the Met's specialist crime directorate, published on Thursday, the Met said that a national e-crime unit is needed to tackle cybercrime.
[January 25, 2007, 15:57]
Tracking E-crime
Leader Cybercrime is "the most rapidly expanding form of criminality", according to detective chief inspector Charlie McMurdie of the Met's specialist crime directorate. The Met alone has four different departments partly or fully focused on e-crime.
[January 29, 2007, 12:04]
Virtual Girlfriend 'inspired Internet Attack'
News Caffrey also disputed evidence given earlier this week by expert witnesses, including Detective Constable Paul Stunt and Professor Neil Barrett. A UK teenager on trial for allegedly launching an Internet attack on a US port on Friday admitted he...
[October 10, 2003, 17:55]
On The Beat With IPlod
Leader Detective Inspector Regan was not happy. Stealing wireless networks — what's that worth, detective sergeant? It says 'Please ignore Directive 45/A/3/Met. It will be superseded by Directive 45/A/5/Met, to follow.
[September 27, 2007, 15:21]
Met Criticises Local Police E-crime Response
News According to Detective Inspector Charlie McMurdie of the Metropolitan Police, there is currently "a lack of knowledge and understanding of e-crime by front-line officers" that needs to be addressed. Currently cybercrime reporting is not taken...
[October 13, 2006, 16:25]
Police Told: Resign To Join SOCA
Blog This issue might help explain the drubbing that SOCA received in a report written in January by detective chief inspector Charlie McMurdie of the Met's specialist crime directorate. Word reaches us at Infosec of unrest among police about the...
[April 24, 2007, 15:12]
Policing The Unacceptable - Bringing Paedophiles To Justice
News Detective Inspector David Marshall who also works in the Met's Paedophilia Unit believes the fight against paedophiles could be helped if powers were granted to arrest people downloading illegal images of children.
[March 22, 1999, 12:25]
Haxdoor Trojan Claims Thousands Of UK Victims
News It's a diverse range of data that's been stolen," said detective chief inspector Charlie McMurdie, the officer in charge of the investigation. The Met would not comment on what was now happening to the data being transmitted currently, and whether...
[October 11, 2006, 16:15]
FBI Nets Scottish Web Paedophile
News We would have to establish sufficient grounds to merit an investigation into this area -- we have not yet received any complaints about the man," said detective inspector Thorburn at Aberdeen's Community Protection and Investigations Unit.
[March 12, 2001, 11:19]
Thousands Fall Victim To Data Theft
News The information has been harvested from the computers by a type of malicious code known as a Backdoor," said a detective from the Computer Crime Unit in a statement. We're appealing for anyone who's had an email from the Met officers who work in...
[October 10, 2006, 17:30]
14 Year Sentence For Net Paedophile
News Leonard, a former detective constable for Wollaston, Stourbridge, admitted producing child pornography and having in excess of 4,000 indecent images of children saved on the hard drive of his home computer.
[February 26, 2001, 17:12]
The Schmoozer: Last Straw For The Evil Hacker Underground
News Straw was unveiling the government's new anti-cybercrime unit, attractively named NHTCU (National High-Tech Crime Unit), which takes spammers and the like so seriously it will be headed by a detective formerly responsible for investigating...
[April 20, 2001, 15:45]
Court Dismisses Charges Against HP's Dunn
News The three other remaining defendants — former HP attorney Kevin Hunsaker; private detective Ronald DeLia; and Matthew DePante of data-brokering company Action Research Group — pleaded no contest to a count of fraudulent wire communications at...
[March 15, 2007, 10:34]
Police Arrest Suspected Virus Writers
News These men appear to be connected via an online company," said detective constable Bob Burls of the Metropolitan Police Computer Crime Unit in a statement. A number of computers have been seized at residential addresses in England, Scotland and...
[June 27, 2006, 16:45]
Internet Date Girl Still Missing
News Detective Inspector Keith Bowman of South Wales police is particularly worried that the pair had met over the Internet. Police are continuing their search for a 16-year-old schoolgirl who is believed to have disappeared with a man that she met...
[May 4, 2001, 16:08]
Sex-game Death Streamed In Net Chatroom
News Computer expert, detective constable Kevin Jones, told the inquest that Rogerson had died in a video "Net meeting". On Thursday, a 45-year-old man admitted to raping a 14-year-old girl that he met in an Internet chatroom.
[March 2, 2001, 10:32]
Police E-crime Unit Set For Gov't Go-ahead
News Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe show in London, the Metropolitan Police Service's detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie said: "I'm fairly convinced we'll get the required sum of £5.3m some way or the other.
[April 28, 2008, 8:24]
