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Education, not legislation will reduce e-crimes
News The paper, published by e-commerce lobby group EURIM, and think tank The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), argues that although some legislation is required to fight Internet-based crimes, alone, it will make no difference unless backed...
[December 11, 2003, 16:40]
Denial-of-Service: How big is this threat?
News Buy.com, eBay, Amazon.com, Microsoft's MSN.com, ZDNet and, finally, E*Trade, which are still under investigation, demonstrated the ease with which e-crimes could be committed. Icebergs" aside, although many are quick to downplay the significance of...
[April 5, 2000, 13:20]
Businesses lack confidence in police e-crime handling
News Over half of companies (56.7 percent) felt e-crimes would not be investigated properly if reported to police; while 30 percent believed there was no-one they could report cybercrime to, despite the announcement in October of the formation of the...
[November 3, 2008, 16:27]
More cybercrime laws will be counter-productive, says thinktank
News Among its recommendations, Eurim said that the Home Office should coordinate constructive dialogue between all stakeholders and that the Law Commission must urgently review existing UK legislation to establish what changes are needed to ensure...
[April 25, 2002, 11:58]
Police: We're overwhelmed by e-crime
News The report described cybercrime as "the most rapidly expanding form of criminality, encompassing both new criminal offences in relation to computers (viruses and hacking etc) and 'old' crimes (fraud, harassment etc), committed using digital or...
[January 25, 2007, 15:57]
Police chief's departure won't halt e-crime plans
News However, SOCA does not co-ordinate e-crime reports unless they are deemed to be serious crimes. This means that there is currently no co-ordinated police response for smaller crimes. The development of a centralised e-crime unit is to go ahead, the...
[October 4, 2007, 16:03]
Skills not money needed to fight cybercrime
News This means that a large number of criminals also connect to the Internet, which has led to the transfer of traditional crimes to the online world. The problem, said EURIM, is that although cybercrimes are becoming more common, members of the police...
[May 18, 2004, 16:45]
Government defends new cyber-snooping powers
News According to Clarke, the need for these measures is a matter of "urgency", with terrorists, paedophiles, drug traffickers and money launderers all using the Internet to perpetrate crimes. Pointing to the NCIS (National Criminal Intelligence Service...
[November 19, 1999, 16:22]
Securing a brave new e-world
News It has become necessary to treat computer crimes more seriously. The legislation would modify the Computer Crimes and Abuse Act in four major ways: The law professor and her students have created a model penal code for crimes on the Internet.
[April 5, 2000, 9:05]
ISPs want more e-crime protection
News The NHTCU is set to be merged with other police units to form the Serious Organised Crime Agency, which will tackle crimes such as people-smuggling and drug-trafficking. Part of its remit will be to crack down on the increasingly high-tech methods...
[March 31, 2004, 18:10]
Lords presses government for data-breach law
News Ultimately, it's the police who should investigate these crimes," said Lord Broers. A lot appear to not be investigated at the moment, which is only encouraging these crimes. At present the Banking Code gives guidelines that banks should refund...
[July 8, 2008, 11:59]
E-crime victims uncertain where to turn
News Victims of e-crime are not sure where they should report such crimes, a police strategy body has warned. The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) said in its inaugural e-crime report, published on Wednesday, that there was currently "no...
[August 27, 2009, 16:27]
E-crime unit seeks insight from IT industry
News It is charged with co-ordinating law enforcement of all online offences, and it will lead national investigations into the most serious e-crimes when it commences operations this spring. The Metropolitan Police's nascent e-crime unit is stepping up...
[February 10, 2009, 11:04]
E-crime police see UK firms pledging techies' time
News The PCeU will co-ordinate law enforcement of all online offences and lead national investigations into the most serious e-crimes, and is expected to be up and running in about four months. The financial slowdown in the retail, banking and telecoms...
[January 20, 2009, 8:04]
High-tech cops hit back against ISP claims
Talkback But e-crimes (credit card fraud etc) are already dealt with by NHTCU, NCIS ( National Criminal inteligence) SFO. If there was a hi-tech offices at each station it would be represented in "The Bill" often aclaimed as an acurate mirror of the Police.
[April 6, 2004, 15:08]
Organised e-crime targets students for recruitment
News As organised criminals move from more traditional crimes, such as armed robbery, towards e-crime, there is evidence that they are targeting university students, graduates and the tech savvy for recruitment, according to security experts and the...
[June 20, 2008, 17:54]
Get a closer look at how phishers operate
White Papers Learn about the increase of online fraud, identity theft, and other financial crimes associated with phishing and spam, including the legal ramifications. This sample chapter, taken from Phishing Exposed, focuses on the increasing threats to e...
[May 17, 2006, 1:00]
US Report: Hate e-mailer sentenced to a year
News In the e-mail, sent on September 20, 1996, from the school's computer facility, Machado accused Asians of being responsible for all crimes on campus, and further threatened that he would "make it my life carreer [sic] to find and kill everyone of...
[May 5, 1998, 10:13]
Microsoft: Police e-crime unit 'giant step forward'
News There is now a reporting mechanism for those crimes. The Police Central e-Crime Unit has been hailed as a "giant step forward" by Microsoft's UK security adviser, Ed Gibson. A big slice of [e-crime] is routine.
[October 30, 2008, 15:55]
Tracking e-crime
Leader Nationally, serious crimes should be handled by the recently formed Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). The Met alone has four different departments partly or fully focused on e-crime. Last year, ex-FBI agent and Microsoft's chief security...
[January 29, 2007, 12:04]
