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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. Notable cybercrime successes include Operation Ajowan, in which Soca broke up a website where criminals traded stolen bank, credit and identity...
[May 16, 2008, 10:39]
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]
SOCA: We Are Tackling E-crime
News Bill Hughes, the director-general of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), said it had made progress in developing international relationships in the effort to combat cybercrime. Through the NHTCU [National Hi-Tech Crime Unit — SOCA's...
[March 28, 2007, 14:52]
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]
SOCA's XP Hack
Talkback While it may be harder to hack XP with SP2, it is still the easiest OS to break into. Average time to compromise a Windows based system is under 20 minutes, wireless or wired. Neither MAC or Linux is unhackable, but it takes longer and you can't...
[November 13, 2007, 13:05]
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. Merlin, Lord Erroll, said that SOCA's powers would be greatly increased by the organisation being...
[April 25, 2006, 16:15]
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. SOCA, which was launched on 1 April, has been formed from...
[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. The Corporate IT Forum (known as tif), which encourages IT...
[January 9, 2007, 11:48]
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). The Prime Minister claims that SOCA will help to combat gangsters, drug barons and people...
[April 3, 2006, 15:15]
Organised E-crime Targets Students For Recruitment
News We are aware of anecdotal evidence of organised criminals [who are] moving into e-crime targeting people at an academic level," a Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) spokesperson told ZDNet.co.uk on Friday.
[June 20, 2008, 17:54]
Microsoft 'frightened' By Police XP Hack
News A SOCA spokesperson explained that to make covert operations easier "all SOCA officers below a certain level are anonymous, as it is not helpful to have our identities known". SOCA requested ZDNet.co.uk give no more details than this about how the...
[November 13, 2007, 10:26]
E-crime Laws Failing, Say Top Experts
News Websense welcomed the creation of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) as fostering international cybercrime-fighting cooperation. This is where Soca will help," said Murtagh. The National Crime Squad and the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit...
[April 12, 2006, 17:15]
ID Theft Gang Thwarts Police With Encryption
News When the gang's premises were raided by the members of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), Kostap was handcuffed with his hands in front of his body. He managed to leap up and flick an electrical switch which wiped databases that could...
[December 18, 2006, 11:16]
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 solution proposed — creating a national e-crime unit — appears...
[January 25, 2007, 15:57]
UK Welcomes Careful Hackers
Leader They won't appear on SOCA's radar unless they also dabble in drug-smuggling or international terrorism, and as long as they don't operate from a Manchester cybercafe they should be safe from the local boys in blue, too.
[June 2, 2006, 15:25]
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. This was due to the fact that civil servants are banned from talking about party...
[April 6, 2005, 13:30]
Police Will Not Pursue Ransom Hackers
News Cases such as the Archiveus incident would previously have been dealt with by the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), which was amalgamated into the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) in April.
[June 2, 2006, 12:50]
Sellers Sue EBay Over Double-billing
Talkback SOCA is run by At the moment ebay are paying government departments like SOCA upwards of 100.000 (one hundred thousand english pounds) to be able to use logos like the 'get safe online' logo they have.
[August 6, 2006, 12:59]
Symantec: Security Reporting Chain Is Broken
News The police have been aware of difficulties in reporting anomalous log data and other evidence of e-crime since the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), which dealt with cybercrime reports, was subsumed into the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).
[October 22, 2007, 15:08]
Is It Any Wonder
Talkback After the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit was intergrated into SOCA the Confidentiality Charter that it had in place was abolished. In switching to SOCA from NHTCU companies first point of contact was their local police, how many local bobbys are going...
[March 28, 2007, 15:53]
