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ID Cards 'taking Focus Away From E-crime'
News The government is ploughing too many resources into the ID cards scheme while failing to fight e-crime, a member of the House of Lords has claimed. E-crime is not so much. Erroll doubted whether the formation of the Serious Organised Crime Agency...
[April 25, 2006, 15:50]
Firms Keeping Quiet About E-crime
News Three-quarters of companies that suffered a high-tech criminal attack in 2003 failed to contact the police, according to figures released on Tuesday, which show that e-crime probably cost UK businesses more than a billion pounds last year.
[February 24, 2004, 16:15]
Interpol Orders Immediate Cybercrime Action
News Local governments, including Blair's administration, have established domestic laws -- such as the RIP Act -- to combat computer crime. As well as the Council of Europe and the G8 nations, the United Nations, the European Union and the Organisation...
[October 11, 2000, 15:02]
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. A Home Office spokesman says Hewitt will give guidance to a concerned...
[April 6, 2000, 9:21]
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]
Cybersquad To Combat Computer Crime
News At a press conference, Straw said: "The significant cash injection I am announcing today will boost the police service's capability to investigate crime committed through computers, including paedophilia, fraud, extortion and hacking," while the...
[November 13, 2000, 14:04]
More Cybercrime Laws Will Be Counter-productive, Says Thinktank
News In the briefing document, called E-Crime - a New Opportunity for Partnership, the group said the best way forward is not through extra, more confusing primary legislation, but through industry participation in reviewing and updating existing laws.
[April 25, 2002, 11:58]
Election Sparks Calls For Cybercrime Minister
News The calling of the election also forced the designated director general for the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), Bill Hughes, to pull out the conference. Tony Blair's decision to call a general election on 5 May has sparked a debate among...
[April 6, 2005, 13:30]
Schneier: ID Cards Will Worsen ID Theft
News Merlin, Lord Erroll, speaking at the Infosecurity conference on Tuesday, also criticised the scheme for the amount it would cost, saying the money could be better spent on security schemes that focused on e-crime and criminals, rather than a...
[April 27, 2006, 12:50]
Government Warned Of Hacking Danger
News The Government's e-Minister will next week address members of Britain's Internet computer technology and Internet industry on the rising threat of computer crime, at a information security conference in London next week.
[April 7, 2000, 16:31]
RSA Sees Looming Identity Crisis Online
News Nash added that organised crime gangs were already targeting businesses to build an e-crime network that fed on e-commerce. Nash was speaking at the RSA Conference in Barcelona. Without having the guarantee of identities, there is a big block to...
[November 5, 2004, 11:33]
Symantec: Security Reporting Chain Is Broken
News The police have been aware of difficulties in reporting anomalous log data and other evidence of e-crime since the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), which dealt with cybercrime reports, was subsumed into the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).
[October 22, 2007, 15:08]
E-bill Reverses Burden Of Proof, Says Expert
News Prompted by questions from the floor, Hewitt had to justify the inclusion of law-enforcement clauses in the e-commerce bill, which, she claimed, was a necessary response to the fact "crime has gone electronic and global".
[September 23, 1999, 15:44]
Tories Attack Gov't Over Cybercrime Delay
News Speaking at a conference on law enforcement, organised by Microsoft, Davis contrasted this to the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) devoting less than two percent of its staff and one percent of its budget to fighting e-crime.
[April 4, 2008, 8:46]
Crime 'more Serious Online Than Off'
News Speaking at the Compsec conference, Rolf Hegel, head of Europol's serious crime department, said: "With cybercrime, it's become so obvious that we've lost the battle even before we've begun to fight. In his opening address to the UK's first e-crime...
[December 9, 2002, 9:07]
Government Snooping Will Hurt E-commerce
News Peter Bottomley MP warned that privacy and human rights conflict with efforts to prevent crime, and there are risks because of the limitations of data profiling. On previous occasions, the police have rejected the idea of ID cards, Davies told a...
[September 28, 2001, 9:27]
Programmer Hacks Microsoft E-book Code
News Earlier this month the FBI arrested a Russian programmer, Dmitri Sklyarov, for allegedly breaking DMCA even though he was not on US soil at the time the alleged crime was committed. Elcomsoft removed the program upon Adobe's request, but Sklyarov...
[August 31, 2001, 17:06]
New Twist To Data-matching Fight Against Internet Fraud
News Currently, one in four computers and software packages is bought online, and one out of every eight books is bought online, Allan Trosclair, executive director of the Coalition for the Prevention of Economic Crime, said during a conference call...
[June 19, 2003, 9:38]
Microsoft Launches Legal Assault On Phishers
News It's time to make links between Internet service providers, hardware and software companies, and law enforcement," said Bernhard Otupal, a crime intelligence officer for Interpol's high-tech crime sub-directorate.
[March 20, 2006, 17:10]
EBay Cracks Down On Romanian Fraudsters
News Henley is currently in town to discuss the latest online fraud techniques with representatives from the Australian Federal Police, the Australian High Tech Crime Centre, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Communications and Media...
[June 28, 2007, 12:11]
