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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]
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]
Australian High-Tech Crime Centre in child-porn sweep
News The operation was coordinated by the Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC) and involved the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and all State and Territory police agencies. Conducting business from behind a computer screen doesn't make the crime...
[October 1, 2004, 13:00]
UK police face increasing pressure from high-tech crime
News In its National Strategic Assessment , the Association of Chief Police Officers said that new responsibilities, such as high-tech crime, required a budget increase of 5.7 percent to keep the same number of officers in front-line policing.
[November 23, 2004, 15:05]
High-tech cops probe premium-rate Internet fraud
Talkback This is a vicious crime on innocent people who cannot afford to pay. We are english living in Greece. Our eldest son downloaded free music and from then on each time we logged on to the net it was charged to a premium rate sex line.
[December 22, 2004, 22:39]
High-tech thieves put spyware in the spotlight
News The UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit is working with Israeli authorities and are said to be investigating other suspects. In the wake of the attempt to steal hundreds of millions of pounds from Sumitomo Mitsui Bank (SMB), security experts have...
[March 21, 2005, 9:35]
International push to fight high-tech scams
News The e-Crime Congress 2004 heard this week that many cybercriminals are targeting the UK from sites located in Eastern Europe. Representatives of more than 60 law enforcement agencies and regulators from around the world gathered in London on Friday...
[February 27, 2004, 16:35]
Staying Out Late? Equip yourself with these High Tech Gadgets (Part 2)
News If you're gonna commit the crime, make sure you don't do the time. Either way, with Motorola's two-way radio, the TalkAbout 280 SLK, you can keep in touch with your partner in crime or keep track of kids, mums, dads, and friends while on the prowl...
[October 25, 1999, 9:55]
Sober worm impersonates high-tech cops
News The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has warned computer users not to fall victim to the latest Sober worm attack, which is now spreading via an email that pretends to come from the cybercrime-fighting police unit.
[November 29, 2005, 12:40]
Banks hit by high-tech extortion
News A spokesman for the Commercial Crime Department at the ICC, which is preparing to launch its "cyber-crime unit" to investigate computer-related financial crime, admitted that the organisation is all too aware of cases of extortion.
[September 22, 1999, 16:38]
High-tech cops hit back against ISP claims
News The growth in the use of technology is increasing the workload for high-tech police officers, as every crime can now have an Internet or computer-related component," said a source close to the e-crime strategy review.
[April 5, 2004, 14:45]
High-tech cops probe premium-rate Internet fraud
News ICSTIS has been forced to call in the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) after being hit with a surge in complaints. We can't work out what the problem is, so have recently started talking to the Hi-Tech Crime Unit so they can do a criminal...
[June 23, 2004, 15:25]
News Burst: Banks hit by high-tech extortion
News A spokesman for the Commercial Crime Department at the ICC made the admission but refused to give details. Banks and other financial institutions have been targeted by high-tech extortionists, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) confirmed...
[September 20, 1999, 10:21]
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]
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]
Police culture crippling cybercrime fight
News A senior UK high-tech crime buster has warned that his investigations are being severely hampered by a lack of money and has said funding could still be pared down further to the point that police units such as his become untenable.
[January 26, 2005, 12:30]
Cybercrime hitting the UK hard
News Out of 200 companies surveyed, 178 experienced some form of high-tech crime last year. 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...
[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]
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]
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]
