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NHTCU to launch Get Safe Online campaign
News The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) is launching a campaign next week to encourage more consumers and small businesses to transact online by providing clear guidance on how to interact with the Web safely and securely.
[October 20, 2005, 16:35]
Stealing our NHTCU is a felony
Leader The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) no longer exists. Not that the NHTCU has received the attention or funding it deserved. At the launch of a recent CBI report into online security, Microsoft's outspoken chief security officer Ed Gibson voiced...
[April 3, 2006, 15:15]
Twelve arrested for laundering phished funds
News The National Hi-tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has arrested six men and six women, with help from the National Crime Squad, the FBI and the US Secret Service. In a statement, the NHTCU said the suspects were recruited by individuals close to Russian...
[May 5, 2004, 13:55]
UK cybercops catch suspected Russian blackmailers
News Britain's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) announced on Wednesday that it had helped to smash a Russian gang involved in online extortion and money-laundering. The bookie said all the UK firms had refused to pay the ransom and had been working...
[July 21, 2004, 14:55]
Three UK arrests in global piracy crackdown
News Officers from Britain's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) made three arrests on Thursday as part of an international crackdown on Internet software piracy. We were struck by the sheer quantity of material across all media, from business software...
[April 23, 2004, 12:45]
Cybercrime hitting the UK hard
News Electronic crime cost UK companies an estimated £2.45bn last year, the National Hi-tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) announced on Tuesday. The NHTCU highlighted that external hackers were not the only threat to companies - crimes committed by employees also...
[April 5, 2005, 13:10]
Police: New laws won't tackle cybercrime
Talkback Dan Ilett quotes Mick Deats of NHTCU (National HiTech Crime Unit) as saying: So Mick's claim really should be limited to saying that NHTCU have never yet lost a case in court ! We've never lost a case yet.
[April 4, 2005, 11:52]
Hi-tech police to join new UK force
News The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) will be a key plank of the UK government's plans to tackle 21st-century organised crime with a new FBI-style crime-fighting agency. The elite police force will merge the National Crime Squad (which the NHTCU...
[February 10, 2004, 10:45]
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]
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]
Experts: 'British FBI' won't stop e-crime
Talkback While trying to get some info from the NHTCU website I discovered something that backs the idea that some crimes will be utterly ignored. In the effort to make the name of the new agency stick in the mind faster faster the NHTCU website has been...
[April 5, 2006, 15:43]
Insecure networks targeted by paedophiles
News The head of the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has warned that UK companies with poor IT security could unknowingly be hosting child pornography on their servers. The online activities of paedophiles are not the only focus of the NHTCU...
[December 10, 2002, 15:22]
Get Safe Online membership costs revealed
News A Word document sent in error to silicon.com, ZDNet UK's sister site, has revealed that the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has specifically been consulting only with security and online fraud experts willing to pay between £50,000 and...
[October 28, 2005, 14:25]
UK arrests in virus investigation
News Two UK men -- a 19-year-old electrician and an unemployed 21-year-old -- are being interviewed today by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU). The NHTCU claims this group is behind a worm which has infected approximately 18,000 computers worldwide.
[February 6, 2003, 15:32]
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. NHTCU will be headed up by detective chief superintendent Len Hynds, previously of the National Crime Squad.
[April 18, 2001, 10:19]
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]
Police arrest UK suspect in anti-ID theft operation
News The National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), which was part of a joint operation with the US Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies, made the arrest on Wednesday. The group] compromised bank accounts from hacking, phishing and other means...
[October 29, 2004, 15:14]
High-tech's thin blue line
News Last year, the main focus of the unit was on individual cases of paedophilia, but increasingly the NHTCU is finding that the people who conduct other types of cybercrime have also latched onto selling child pornography as lucrative money-making...
[April 5, 2005, 15:50]
'Trojan' emails conceal theft tools
News The UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) said the spam emails contain details of a fictitious order for Web hosting or computer goods and display the cost that will supposedly be charged to their credit card.
[August 13, 2004, 15:15]
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. This has led the regulator to turn to the NHTCU. A spokesperson for the NHTCU confirmed that it is in the "early stages of the...
[June 23, 2004, 15:25]
