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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 The National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has been set up in reaction to the increasing use of the Internet by criminals. Home secretary Jack Straw today launched the UK's first high-tech crime unit on Wednesday at London's Science Museum.
[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 Fri, 20 April The Home Office will not be recording cybercrime figures, despite investing £25m in a National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) Last week the UK government launched its High-Tech Crime Unit to concentrate on issues that affect everybody...
[April 23, 2001, 14:33]
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]
Firms keeping quiet about e-crime
News The research, conducted by the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), found that just 24 percent of companies targeted by cybercriminals decided to contact the authorities. Three-quarters of companies that suffered a high-tech criminal attack in...
[February 24, 2004, 16:15]
Government launches new e-crime unit
Blog Having spoken to some ex National High Tech Crime Unit coppers, none of them seemed very happy to see the NHTCU collapsed into the Serious and Organised Crime Unit (SOCA) - so maybe this new unit will go some way to make up for that.
[September 30, 2008, 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]
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]
Web bookmakers tool up against blackmail hack attacks
News Britain's National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) revealed last month that it is investigating a series of attacks and threats of attacks on companies in the United Kingdom. A source at the NHTCU pointed out on Monday that while bookmakers might be...
[February 23, 2004, 14:35]
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]
Foiled £220m heist highlights spyware threat
News The UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit has foiled the world's largest potential bank robbery. Thieves were plotting a high-tech coup, with the aid of spyware, to steal £220m from the London offices of Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui.
[March 17, 2005, 9:25]
Stealing our NHTCU is a felony
Leader The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) no longer exists. He believes that SOCA would make it even harder for businesses to know who to report technology crimes to, and will exacerbate what he perceives as a "real lack of meaningful statistics...
[April 3, 2006, 15:15]
Police play down Grand National hack threat
News Claims that organised criminals will launch a flood of electronic attacks on the Internet sites of British bookmakers this weekend are wide of the mark, the UK National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) said on Wednesday.
[March 31, 2004, 15:05]
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]
News Burst: Cybersquad to combat computer crime
News The home secretary Jack Straw will announce plans to create a £20m National High-Tech Crime Unit Monday morning according to reports Sunday. The special unit, which will include members of the police, customs and excise, the National Crime Squad...
[November 13, 2000, 9:59]
Confidential reports to aid cybercrime crackdown
News The head of Britain's National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) is calling for a confidential channel for UK businesses to report cybercrime attacks. No statistics currently exist, and we can't do this overnight," said a spokesperson at the National...
[June 22, 2001, 13:02]
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]
