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Soca's cybercops convict 21 in three years
News In response to a written parliamentary question this week, UK home secretary Alan Johnson said from April 2006 until March 2009, the e-crime unit of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) was involved in 22 prosecutions and 21 convictions.
[July 16, 2009, 10:18]
Soca: Russian cyber-gang bribed police
News The local constables bribed by the company hindered international police efforts to close down the cybercrime ring it was involved with, according to Soca intelligence officer Andy Auld. It was due to start new operations under the name Taiwan...
[October 22, 2009, 13:29]
Soca puts a clamp on cybercrime
News The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) has revealed some of its crime-fighting successes over the last year. Soca's annual report, published yesterday, details a year of fighting e-crime, from leading the UK operation to shut down the online...
[May 15, 2009, 11:45]
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 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: 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]
Police smash DarkMarket cybercrime ring
News The forum, described by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) as "one of the most pernicious online criminal forums in the world", enabled participants to buy and sell personal data, and trade in equipment used in financial crimes.
[October 17, 2008, 13:26]
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]
Crime agency prepares for £500m tech revamp
News Soca is looking for suppliers for the project, to begin in 2010, to bring together around 50 systems that the agency inherited when it was formed two years ago. Soca currently uses a mix of systems it took on from the National Crime Squad, the...
[December 11, 2008, 17:04]
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: Police e-crime unit 'giant step forward'
News Speaking at a press event at the RSA Conference Europe 2008 on Tuesday, Gibson said businesses had perceived that there had been nowhere to go to report "low-level" computer crime, after the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) was amalgamated into...
[October 30, 2008, 15:55]
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]
Industry expects e-crime unit to 'knock on doors'
News Asked whether the creation of the PCeU is an acknowledgement that the government got it wrong when it absorbed the NHTCU into Soca, Janet Williams, Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner for the Specialist Crime Directorate, who is...
[October 23, 2008, 15:23]
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]
