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Microsoft 'frightened' By Police XP Hack
News Microsoft has described the ease with which two officers from the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency managed to hack into Windows XP as both "enlightening and frightening". The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) officers, who are e-crime...
[November 13, 2007, 10:26]
SOCA: We Are Tackling E-crime
News The Serious Organised Crime Agency has hit back at claims that it does not have the necessary remit or resources to tackle e-crime. Bill Hughes, the director-general of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), said it had made progress in...
[March 28, 2007, 14:52]
Experts: 'British FBI' Won't Stop E-crime
News The formation of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) will do little to combat the rising threat of cybercrime and could actually make the problem worse, experts have warned. Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton told ZDNet...
[April 3, 2006, 15:35]
Big Business Fears E-crime Communication Breakdown
News An industry body that represents large corporations has criticised Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) for its lack of openness in working with UK companies to tackle e-crime. SOCA also said that crime could be defined as both serious...
[January 9, 2007, 11:48]
Hi-tech Police To Join New UK Force
News The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) will tackle crimes such as people-smuggling and drug-trafficking - and part of its remit will be to crack down on the increasingly hi-tech methods gangs use to carry out these crimes and launder the proceeds.
[February 10, 2004, 10:45]
Lord: 'British FBI' Will Be Private Home Office Police
News The powers and scope of the newly formed Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) are far too broad, a leading parliamentary figure said on Tuesday. The government has said that SOCA should play a vital role in combating the most serious organised...
[April 25, 2006, 16:15]
Super-Asbos Planned For Cybercriminals
News The proposed Serious Crime Prevention Order is intended to combat organised crime where the police do not have enough evidence to bring a criminal prosecution. The proposals are contained within a Home Office green paper called New Powers Against...
[July 18, 2006, 14:00]
Crime 'more Serious Online Than Off'
News The level of organised crime targeting the Internet as a vehicle for its illicit activity is increasing sharply, according to the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit. In his opening address to the UK's first e-crime congress on Monday, DCS Hynds...
[December 9, 2002, 9:07]
RIP: Government Claims No Mass Surveillance
News The powers within RIP are directed at three specific areas: threat to national security, threat to economic well being and serious and organised crime. It means those gathered for a common purpose to commit a serious crime and we are talking...
[July 10, 2000, 16:04]
Cybercrime Laws Aren't Working, Says Minister
News Serious organised crime is not local, it is global. Murphy's comments came just days after the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) warned that it was struggling to cope with the international nature of e-crime, especially in identifying who...
[October 28, 2005, 13:00]
Police Chief's Departure Won't Halt E-crime Plans
News The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) used to co-ordinate e-crime reports until it was subsumed into the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). SOCA was formed in May 2006 as an amalgamation of the NHTCU, National Crime Squad (NCS), National...
[October 4, 2007, 16:03]
UK Welcomes Careful Hackers
Leader Greater Manchester Police won't investigate the offence as it's technically an "international crime", and the Serious and Organised Crime Agency is very unlikely to act without proof that it was the work of organised criminals.
[June 2, 2006, 15:25]
MPs Attack IT 'mess' At Asset Recovery Agency
News It is to be disbanded, from April 2008 at the earliest, with its powers and ongoing cases transferring to the Serious Organised Crime Agency. The Serious Organised Crime Agency will have to learn from these mistakes.
[October 15, 2007, 16:19]
Online Safety Push Will Target SMEs
News The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) said businesses should be aware that Eastern European and Russian organised crime groups are trying to steal customer data and intellectual property. Russians claim to be the best hackers, but we are the...
[October 9, 2006, 16:50]
Stealing Our NHTCU Is A Felony
Leader The UK organisation that specialised in hunting down and preventing cybercrime has been subsumed into the newly created Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). While we welcome the implication that the government now believes IT-related crime to be...
[April 3, 2006, 15:15]
Soca Reveals Its Cybercrime-fighting Successes
News The 2007 to 2008 report details work by Soca (the Serious Organised Crime Agency) over the past year. E-crime is not explicitly identified as one of Soca's priority areas — drug trafficking, organised immigration crime and fraud — as set by the...
[May 16, 2008, 10:39]
Police Told: Resign To Join SOCA
Blog Word reaches us at Infosec of unrest among police about the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). To join SOCA, which effectively supplants the National High Tech Crime Unit, it appears that police have to resign and become civil servants working...
[April 24, 2007, 15:12]
Election Sparks Calls For Cybercrime Minister
News The calling of the election also forced the designated director general for the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), Bill Hughes, to pull out the conference. Tony Blair's decision to call a general election on 5 May has sparked a debate among...
[April 6, 2005, 13:30]
Police: We're Overwhelmed By E-crime
News Serious, or Level 3, crimes are supposedly handled by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), although it emerged this week that the agency may be struggling to fulfil its remit. The Metropolitan Police have warned that the UK's local police...
[January 25, 2007, 15:57]
SOCA: Beware The IT Mafia
News Speaking on Tuesday at the Infosecurity 2006 conference in London, Tony Neate, e-crime liaison for the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), said insider "plants" are causing significant damage to companies.
[April 25, 2006, 15:30]
