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Thousands fall victim to data theft
News The Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday that a computer seized in the US had been found to contain personal information from around 2,300 PCs based in Britain. According to the Metropolitan Police Computer Crime Unit, the data was stolen via a...
[October 10, 2006, 17:30]
Police maintain uneasy truce with cybervigilantes
News The Metropolitan Police have turned to some unlikely allies in the fight against internet crime — cyberactivists who are taking action against online fraudsters. The police are working with certain cybervigilante groups, using them as a source of...
[January 17, 2007, 14:37]
Police chief slams Yahoo! chatroom silence
News The Metropolitan Police has joined the growing list of critics urging Yahoo! Chief superintendent Martin Jauch of the Metropolitan Police's Clubs and Vice Unit slammed Yahoo! Yahoo's PR tactic -- to stonewall all objections and concerns raised by...
[November 16, 2000, 16:07]
Police demand HMRC foots bill for disc search
News The Metropolitan Police has said it will seek full costs from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) for what is being reported as the most expensive lost-property inquiry in the UK. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: "We will be seeking full...
[January 15, 2008, 7:46]
Police to give cybercrime-fighting courses
News The Metropolitan Police Force is launching a series of e-crime prevention and response seminars for businesses. This way they might lose half the people they're looking to get, but the initiative is something I applaud.Richard Starnes, UK president...
[January 19, 2005, 12:20]
UK police help fight outsourcing cybercrime
News The Metropolitan Police and the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) have joined forces to set up a working party to tackle the increasing threat of global cybercrime especially in offshoring companies.
[July 12, 2005, 18:45]
Multi-million pound IT heist foiled
News Members of the Metropolitan Police's Flying Squad, working alongside firearms units from the Metropolitan Police and Gloucestershire Police, arrested seven men on Christmas Eve as they attempted to steal high-value Cisco Systems equipment from a...
[July 3, 2006, 16:05]
Police arrest suspected virus writers
News The Metropolitan Police, acting in conjunction with Finnish law-enforcement authorities, arrested three suspected virus writers on Tuesday. A 63-year-old man in Suffolk, a 28-year-old man in Scotland, and a 19-year-old man in Finland were arrested...
[June 27, 2006, 16:45]
FBI accused over Code Red virus confusion
News The Metropolitan Police has criticised the FBI for issuing confused messages about the Code Red worm, which led home PC owners to believe that their computers could be infected by a self-propagating worm that only attacks Internet servers.
[August 1, 2001, 11:43]
Laptops containing police payroll data stolen
News Three laptops containing Metropolitan Police payroll details have been stolen from LogicaCMG, the UK IT services firm. Approximately half of the Metropolitan Police's employees are thought to have been affected.
[November 22, 2006, 10:59]
Capgemini wins Met Police tech deal
News The Metropolitan Police has signed a seven-year £350m contract with Capgemini UK to provide ICT services, the Met said on Thursday. Working as a single team with the Met, we will deliver value, effective governance and innovation from transition to...
[December 8, 2005, 15:30]
Police disorganisation blamed for rise in Net crime
News A Metropolitan police chief has blamed lack of organisation in the police force for Britain's failure to crack down on Internet child pornography. Thirteen suspected paedophiles were arrested Wednesday, as part of Britain's biggest ever police...
[January 18, 2001, 15:11]
Met criticises local police e-crime response
News The Metropolitan Police is currently setting up a business plan and looking at funding for the central e-crime unit, so a definite timescale for its operation could not be given, according to a spokeswoman.
[October 13, 2006, 16:25]
Burglars plunder Verizon's London data centre
News Criminals posing as policemen conned their way into a data centre near London's King's Cross station, tying up staff and stealing computing equipment, the Metropolitan Police said on Friday. The men tied up five members of staff at the data centre...
[December 10, 2007, 12:12]
IT pros called to become boys in blue
News The request has apparently been welcomed by commissioner of the Metropolitan police Sir John Stevens. Currently, the Metropolitan Police Computer Crime Unit in London has 11 officers. IT professionals could soon be asked to volunteer their services...
[December 1, 2004, 16:45]
Government to forge new cybercrime policies
News The announcement comes in the wake of an e-crime discussion meeting between Home Office minister Vernon Coaker, Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) representatives and the Metropolitan Police's head of e-crime, Charlie McMurdie.
[March 27, 2008, 7:35]
HMRC offers £20,000 for return of lost discs
News The search for the missing CDs has been led by a core team of 47 detectives and computer experts from the Metropolitan Police's Specialist and Economic Crime Command. Now that the main search has finished without finding the CDs, the Metropolitan...
[December 5, 2007, 14:08]
Bail for Brit accused of NASA hack
News According to Metropolitan Police, the extradition warrant says he gained illegal access and made unauthorised modifications to 53 computers belonging to the US government, including computers from the Department of Defense, Nasa (National...
[June 10, 2005, 9:40]
Fourteen arrested after Internet child porn investigation
News The operation, which was code-named "Barcela", followed a seven-month investigation involving the Obscene Publications and Internet Unit -- part of the Metropolitan Police's Clubs and Vice Unit. The Metropolitan Police said that Barcela...
[October 30, 2001, 15:22]
Hacker dodges prison term
News He was sentenced on Tuesday at Southwark Crown Court by Judge Geoffrey Rivlin, according to a Metropolitan Police spokesman. Judge Rivlin said it was "a very serious case, which was on the custody threshold", according to the Metropolitan police.
[November 8, 2006, 15:18]
