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High-Tech Crime Unit Snubs Infosec
News The British government's new force for combating computer hackers -- the National High-Tech Computer Crime Unit (NHTCU) -- has turned down the opportunity to represent itself at a roundtable held at the UK's top conference on computer security, to...
[April 25, 2001, 9:56]
High Tech Crime Chief Calls For New Internet Laws
News Bill Hughes voiced his concerns during the launch of the UK's National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) on Wednesday, which was attended by home secretary Jack Straw. The director general of the National Crime Squad (NCS) admitted today that UK...
[April 18, 2001, 14:21]
News Roundup: UK Cracks Down On Internet Crime
News Last week the UK government launched its High-Tech Crime Unit to concentrate on issues that affect everybody from banks and financial institutions, to online stores, to individuals who use their credit cards for online purchases.
[April 23, 2001, 14:33]
Home Office Says 'no' To Cybercrime Figures
News The Home Office will not be recording cybercrime figures, despite investing £25m in a National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) launched on Wednesday. It's important to collect and publish these details and statistics in order to provide more...
[April 20, 2001, 15:10]
Police Culture Crippling Cybercrime Fight
News You might speak to an officer on one high-tech crime unit with a complaint about a DoS (denial of service) attack and he really might not know where you are going with it. A senior UK high-tech crime buster has warned that his investigations are...
[January 26, 2005, 12:30]
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. Electronic crime cost UK companies an estimated £2.45bn last year, the National...
[April 5, 2005, 13:10]
High-tech Police Tackle Internet Crime
News Home secretary Jack Straw today launched the UK's first high-tech crime unit on Wednesday at London's Science Museum. The National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has been set up in reaction to the increasing use of the Internet by criminals.
[April 18, 2001, 10:19]
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]
News Roundup: Infosec 2001 Unfolds
News The timing of the event is also significant because the UK Government only last week announced the launch of a new body designed to combat computer crime, the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU). High-Tech Crime Unit snubs Infosec
[April 25, 2001, 15:15]
High-tech's Thin Blue Line
News Launched on Tuesday at the NHTCU's annual e-Crime Congress, the survey claims the minimum combined cost of high-tech crime on UK companies with more than 1000 employees is around £2.45bn. Of the 200 companies surveyed, 89 percent said they had...
[April 5, 2005, 15:50]
News Roundup: How Real Is The May Day Hack Threat?
News The UK's National High Tech Crime Unit has said it is not planning any action to protect firms from possible hacking attacks. High-Tech Crime Unit ignores May Day hacking threat Take me to ZDNet's Net Crime Special
[May 1, 2001, 9:42]
News Schmooze: Welcome To Ghost Comdex
News The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit took their token £25m funding this spring and haven't been heard from since. Crime unit requires a plan Andrew Pinder assures us that the UK is well on its way to becoming the high-tech business park of the...
[November 16, 2001, 17:11]
High-tech Vigilantes Face Legal Threat
News The UK's recently launched National Hi-Tech Crime Unit did not attend the conference and said that its members were still in training. Companies cannot rely on the police to protect them from computer crime, but they should be wary of carrying out...
[May 8, 2001, 14:41]
Police Told: Resign To Join SOCA
Blog To join SOCA, which effectively supplants the National High Tech Crime Unit, it appears that police have to resign and become civil servants working a 37.5-hour week. Word reaches us at Infosec of unrest among police about the Serious Organised...
[April 24, 2007, 15:12]
Exclusive: Government Will Not Prioritise Paedophile Cases
News Promises that Internet paedophiles would be dealt with as a "top priority" by the government's new High-Tech Crime Unit have been undermined by the National Crime Squad (NCS) which has confirmed that such cases will continue to be dealt with at a...
[February 12, 2001, 11:52]
Thursday
Blog It goes surprisingly well: we have a copper from the high-tech crime unit, a consultant from Logica and a legal eagle from a big law firm, together with someone from IntellectUK -- the industry group for high tech companies.
[June 28, 2002, 17:44]
Systems Should Be Sold Secure, Says Interpol
News Activities such as phishing and pharming would be drastically reduced if PCs were sold with security software ready and running, the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit's E-Crime Congress in London was told. Phishing and pharming wouldn't be possible if...
[March 30, 2006, 17:15]
Police To Become Masters Of Cybercrime
News Apart from specialist cybercrime teams, such as the Hi-Tech Crime Unit, the police regularly demonstrate that they are unprepared and under resourced to handle the recent explosion in computer-related crimes.
[June 3, 2004, 17:50]
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]
Security Industry Doesn't Want A Cybersecurity Tsar
News We already have the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) — it would be difficult to see (another cybersecurity agency's) remit," said a spokesperson for the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit.
[November 29, 2005, 17:25]
