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High-tech's thin blue line
News Of the 200 companies surveyed, 89 percent said they had experienced some form of high-tech crime such as unauthorised access to internal systems or even theft of data. Launched on Tuesday at the NHTCU's annual e-Crime Congress, the survey claims...
[April 5, 2005, 15:50]
High-tech fever hits the UK
News techMARK -- the UK high tech exchange set up to rival America's Nasdaq -- is riding high as Internet fever finds a firm foothold in the UK. Most recently Bank of England governor Eddie George gave a thumbs-up signal to high-tech shares on Monday...
[December 14, 1999, 10:07]
High Tech for Hard Times - Part one
Blog So can your high tech hardware save a small business in these bleak times ? But looking at the the way tech stuff is now so portable and the need for office space or other sundry products (fax stationary postage etc) is reduced it would make good...
[October 2, 2008, 17:13]
High-tech's role in the peace process
News During the Oslo period, you talked about a future where high-tech ventures between Palestinians and Israelis would be common. The high-tech sector is mostly affected by a global crisis in this domain.
[August 4, 2003, 16:10]
High-Tech Crimes Revealed
Member Review What do high-tech criminals get up to, and how do the forces of law and order catch them? Steven Branigan investigates in this fascinating -- if US-biased -- book.
[November 17, 2004, 7:25]
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]
High-tech paedophiles: No surprise to FBI
News As it turns out, a corner office at a high-profile high-tech company isn't such an unlikely place to find an online paedophile -- not according to records being yielded from a three-year-old Federal Bureau of Investigation crackdown on Internet...
[September 21, 1999, 10:05]
US Report: High Tech aliens see vote go to Senate
News The bill, which has received strong support from high-tech companies, would extend the quota of H1B visas granted to highly-skilled foreign workers. High-tech companies back the bill because they say it will help them fill jobs they can't get find...
[September 25, 1998, 6:54]
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 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 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 cops hit back against ISP claims
Talkback 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. Despiste the number of Squads and high levels of computing for each squad there is Very little sharing of...
[April 6, 2004, 15:08]
High-Tech Crimes Revealed review
Reviews Overall, High-Tech Crimes Revealed: Cyberwar Stories from the Digital Front is a useful and interesting -- if distinctly US-orientated -- book. Branigan is a former manager for Bell Labs Computing and Network Research, and has a background in both...
[November 17, 2004, 7:35]
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: High-tech shares take spotlight in techMARK
News The market is an attempt to lure high-tech startups from Britain and the rest of Europe to list their shares in the UK rather than in the US, with its Nasdaq, or Germany's Neuer Markt (see European Tech Bourses ).
[November 4, 1999, 10:32]
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. The extent of the problem faced by companies and the police is illustrated by the fact that the Love Letter virus...
[May 8, 2001, 14:41]
High-tech firms gingerly approach IPOs
News One of them is Salesforce.com, which is frequently mentioned with Google as one of the companies likely to rekindle the high-tech IPO scene. It could also raise the profile of the companies offering an alternative to the traditional software...
[October 6, 2003, 14:45]
Good news for British high-tech startups
Blog Good financial news is becoming a rarity these days so it's excellent to hear that British high-tech VCs didn't flinch during the year. Up to the end of Q3 they'd put £765 million into UK and Irish high-tech start-ups which, if Q4 was going to be...
[November 21, 2008, 15:32]
News Burst: Brown's high-tech scheme
News Chancellor Gordon Brown is planning a slate of moves to strengthen UK investment in high-tech companies, according to his pre-Budget report Tuesday. Cash-strapped high-tech startups often choose to supplement low wages with shares, which can become...
[November 10, 1999, 10:16]
News Burst: EU accolade for Welsh high-tech plan
News The initiative could form the blueprint for high-tech regional development projects across the UK. Some 50 separate projects involving 1000 organisations, pioneered under the Welsh Development Agency's (WDA) regional technology plan, have been...
[October 21, 1998, 16:07]
