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Met Criticises Local Police E-crime Response
News Currently cybercrime reporting is not taken seriously enough at a local level, according to Detective Inspector Brian Ward of the Metropolitan Police. According to Detective Inspector Charlie McMurdie of the Metropolitan Police, there is currently...
[October 13, 2006, 16:25]
Twelve Arrested For Laundering Phished Funds
News Organised crime is targeting Internet users, and specifically Russian speakers, in the UK to launder money stolen from online bank accounts where people have been duped into handing over their account details," said Detective Superintendent Mick...
[May 5, 2004, 13:55]
Cybercrime Threat Keeps Growing
News Detective Constable Bob Burls, who heads botnet crime investigations for the Metropolitan Police, said the last botnet they had cracked had been 20,000 PCs strong. The Metropolitan Police also link in with the Interpol botnet taskforce, according...
[November 21, 2006, 12:14]
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]
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]
High-tech Police Tackle Internet Crime
News NHTCU will be headed up by detective chief superintendent Len Hynds, previously of the National Crime Squad. Its remit will largely be centred around investigations of serious or organised crime using IT, such as hacking and fraud.
[April 18, 2001, 10:19]
Randex Youths Made Botnets For Gaming
News This case was a prime example of how the Internet-using public, industry and international law enforcement can work together in order to identify, to disrupt and ultimately prosecute those engaging in criminality on the Internet," said Detective...
[December 23, 2004, 11:55]
National Anti-fraud Centre Ready For Action
News Metropolitan Police Service detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie, one of the architects of the Police Central e-Crime Unit, has revealed that pilots for the National Fraud Reporting Centre are due to begin imminently.
[October 3, 2008, 8:53]
Clink For DrinkorDie Software Counterfeiters
News Internet piracy is a growing problem, with organised crime now moving into this space and defrauding the individual, business and governments of millions of pounds," said Detective Superintendent Mick Deats, deputy-head of the NHTCU.
[May 6, 2005, 17:20]
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. Nationally, serious crimes should be handled by the recently formed Serious Organised...
[January 29, 2007, 12:04]
Cybercrime Hitting The UK Hard
News Billions of pounds are being lost to the UK economy through high-tech crime," said Detective Superintendent Mick Deats, deputy head of the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit. Speaking to ZDNet UK last week, Deats warned that organised gangs are taking a...
[April 5, 2005, 13:10]
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. McMurdie told ZDNet UK that it was too early to say whether it was an individual or a group that was...
[October 11, 2006, 16:15]
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]
Experts: 'British FBI' Won't Stop E-crime
News I can recall trying to report a bank fraud about 15 years ago, and being told by the Detective Constable that it was too complicated for their local force - but as the sum that had been pinched was less than £100m, the Serious Fraud Office would...
[April 3, 2006, 15:35]
Election Sparks Calls For Cybercrime Minister
News The bill hasn't been passed yet," said detective superintendent Mick Deats, deputy head of the NHTCU. The calling of the election also forced the designated director general for the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), Bill Hughes, to pull out...
[April 6, 2005, 13:30]
NHTCU To Launch Get Safe Online Campaign
News Steering Group, which is chaired by Detective Chief Superintendent Webroot are a security company which specialise in anti-spyware software and organised the summit to promote awareness of the problem.
[October 20, 2005, 16:35]
Transatlantic Clampdown To Hit Extreme Web Sites
News For it [the Internet] to continue to grow as a mainstream medium for businesses, education and entertainment, it must design out the minority factors that inhabit cyberspace for their own perverse gratification," said detective chief...
[March 9, 2004, 13:55]
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. This highly organised group are suspected of writing new computer viruses in order to avoid...
[June 27, 2006, 16:45]
High-tech's Thin Blue Line
News According to the deputy-head of the NHTCU, detective superintendent Mick Deats, levels of online crime and hacking have increased substantially since last year's survey. The latest research figures from the UK law enforcement agency charged with...
[April 5, 2005, 15:50]
Police E-crime Unit Seeks Industry Recruits
News Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie of the Metropolitan Police Service — one of the architects of the Police Central e-Crime Unit announced on Tuesday — has proposed recruiting individuals from industry to assist the unit with investigations.
[October 2, 2008, 8:30]
