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E-crime Unit 'on Track' Despite Funding Delay
News Plans for a national UK cybercrime policing unit remain on track despite the government stalling on funding, according to the Metropolitan Police Service's e-crime chief . Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie, one of the architects of the...
[June 16, 2008, 8:39]
Police E-crime Unit Set For Gov't Go-ahead
News The UK's proposed central e-crime police unit is close to securing the necessary government funding to make it a reality, according to one of the architects of the project. Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe show in London, the Metropolitan Police...
[April 28, 2008, 8:24]
UK E-unit Web Site Goes Live
News A new website for the UK's e-Government Unit, replacing the e-envoy's homepage, is now available The Office of the e-Envoy (OeE) has been consigned to the Whitehall scrap heap, completing its transition to become the e-Government Unit on 2 June, 2004.
[June 2, 2004, 15:20]
Businesses May Be Forced To Fund E-crime Unit
News Businesses would be forced to contribute to the funding of a national police e-crime unit under the current proposal being considered by the Home Office. But the private sector has hit back, saying the core funding for a dedicated police unit to...
[March 18, 2008, 7:24]
Deutsche Telekom Unit Keeps "Winning Team" For E-mail Security As It Moves To 64-Bit
White Papers The T-Systems Austria GesmbH, part of Deutsche Telekom's T-System IT business unit, has relied on Microsoft Antigen for the e-mail security of its Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 infrastructure. So, as the technology leader moves to the 64-bit world...
[February 17, 2007, 0:00]
Police: We're Overwhelmed By E-crime
News The Metropolitan Police have warned that the UK's local police forces "can no longer cope" with e-crime, and have called for a national unit to be set up to address the problem. In a report written by detective chief inspector Charlie McMurdie of...
[January 25, 2007, 15:57]
Tories Attack Government Policy On Cybercrime
News The Conservatives have criticised the government's response to the growing threat from cybercrime, unveiling plans for a national e-crime unit and a dedicated e-crime minister if they win the next election.
[March 7, 2008, 9:04]
New E-Payments Engine For Northern Ireland
News Northern Ireland's e-Government Unit has provided a new transactional platform for authorities in the province. John Price, deputy director of the Northern Ireland e-Government Unit, said it has developed the system using Microsoft's Biz Talk 2004...
[November 3, 2004, 11:48]
Tories Attack Gov't Over Cybercrime Delay
News The Tories have launched a stinging attack on the government's failure to pay £1.3m to fund a national e-crime policing unit. The unit would provide leadership and expertise to co-ordinate investigations nationwide and collate reports from police...
[April 4, 2008, 8:46]
Police Chief's Departure Won't Halt E-crime Plans
News The development of a centralised e-crime unit is to go ahead, the Metropolitan Police has said, despite the departure of the project's main proponent. Commander Sue Wilkinson has been leading a project that aims to create a Police Central e-Crime...
[October 4, 2007, 16:03]
Blair Reaches Out To IT Staff
News Blair recorded the message, which was broadcast on 24 May, 2005, as part of a speech delivered by the head of e-government unit, Ian Watmore. An e-Government Unit spokesperson said the broadcast is not being made publicly available.
[May 25, 2005, 16:05]
Cybersquad To Combat Computer Crime
News Home secretary Jack Straw announced plans to create a £25m National High-Tech Crime Unit Monday, that will focus on combating e-commerce fraud and other types of computer crime. The special unit, which will include members of the police, customs...
[November 13, 2000, 14:04]
Amstrad E-m@iler Makes A Profit
News A steep price cut and new revenue-generating features have combined to bring Amserve, the unit of Amstrad which sells the e-m@iler Web/email device, into profit for the first time, the company said on Thursday.
[February 19, 2004, 12:40]
PortExtender™ HDSL Integrated Network Termination Unit
White Papers N.E.T.s multi-rate HDSL Integrated Network Termination Unit (HINTU) module, along with the HDSL network termination unit (HNTU), provides customers with an economical and highly reliable HDSL digital data network (DDN) service solution.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Tony Blair Warns Britain's Business
News The PM, speaking at St John's Innovation Centre in Cambridge, was announcing the think tank Performance and Innovation Unit's strategy for UK e-commerce, and warned British companies: "If you don't see the Net as an opportunity it will be a threat.
[September 13, 1999, 16:32]
High-tech Cops Hit Back Against ISP Claims
News The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has delivered a robust defence of the UK's e-crime-fighting capabilities, following critical comments made by Malcolm Hutty, regulation officer at the London Internet Exchange (LINX), last week.
[April 5, 2004, 14:45]
A Year Ago: Tony Blair Warns Britain's Business
News The PM, speaking at St John's Innovation Centre in Cambridge, was announcing the think tank Performance and Innovation Unit's strategy for UK e-commerce, and warned British companies: "If you don't see the Net as an opportunity it will be a threat.
[September 13, 2000, 7:01]
Wanted: New Government CIO
News Andrew Stott will act as the interim head of the e-Government Unit and oversee the council's plans. I will still sit on this council — working closely with other council members and the new e-Government Unit head who will replace me as chair — to...
[January 12, 2006, 14:40]
Soca Reveals Its Cybercrime-fighting Successes
News The report details scores of successful operations to stop drug trafficking, but there is little mention of the work of Soca's e-crime unit, and it does not specify how many of its 2,033 arrests were related to cybercrime.
[May 16, 2008, 10:39]
'Melissa' Virus Infections Escalate
News The proliferation of this virus is something we've never seen before," said Srivats Sampath, general manager of Network Associates' McAfee unit. Anti-virus firm MacAfee, a unit of Network Associates Inc.reported that Melissa had hit 20 large...
[March 28, 1999, 19:01]
