National Hi Tech Crime Unit
17 Stories
The art of crisis-management
Insight Your website is gone and a hacker has made off with you database. The clock is ticking and all eyes are on your next move. What should you do now?
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions
International bank HSBC deluged by viruses
News On its worst day, the bank suffered 100,000 attacks, a top executive says.
Tags: Viruses and worms
Mafia insiders infiltrating firms, U.K. cops warn
News U.K.'s crime-fighting agency says organized crime gangs are planting people inside companies to attack their systems.
Tags: Security, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Legal
Soca game for US$740M tech revamp
News The Serious Organised Crime Agency in the United Kingdom is embarking on a project to integrate about 50 IT systems, which it expects to commence in 2010.
Tags: Hacking, Spam and phishing, Authentication and encryption, Data security, Firewalls, Viruses and worms, Supplier, National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, Serious Organised Crime Agency, London
Internet fraudsters sentenced to 15 years
News A British court today sentenced six ID fraudsters to a total of 15 years in jail for using false identities to con banks out of US$589,500.
Online cannabis shop goes up in smoke
News In the latest dot-com bust, three people have been arrested in the U.K. on suspicion of selling cannabis through a Web site.
Russian hackers hailed as world's best
News Russians hackers are now teaming up to get rich through cybercrime, and they are among the best in the business, local police claims.
Tags: Hacking
U.K. police unprepared for security 'arms race'
News A former U.S. intelligence tech specialist has warned of the need for a dedicated cyber-crime task force in the United Kingdom.
Tags: Security
Thugs turn to corporate e-blackmail
News comment ZDNet Australia's Fran Foo says that a dangerous potion of corporate over-dependence on technology, weak computer systems, lack of security knowledge and policy enforcement has opened the door for organized criminals.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Business ethics
Cyber-crime reporting body for U.K.?
News IT heads suggest the creation of a central reporting body to assist organizations that are under threat, and coordinate efforts to identify and resolve e-crime incidents.
Tags: Crisis communications, Hacking
Britain cracks down on child porn
News In the biggest international operation against Internet pedophiles, police forces across England and Wales have identified 12 suspects in the UK.
High-tech vigilantes face legal threat
News Companies cannot rely on the police to protect them from computer crime, but they should be wary of carrying out counter attacks against hackers because this could raise legal problems, say experts.
Symantec: Security reporting chain is broken
News Security expert says failure to scrutinize log data is putting companies at risk; U.K. police renews calls for greater co-ordination with businesses in fighting cybercrime.
Tags: Security, Business security
ID theft ring hits 50 banks, security firm says
News The operation is gathering personal data from "thousands of machines" using keystroke-logging software, Sunbelt Software says.
Tags: Data security
Inside Symantec's security bunker
News What goes on behind the locked underground doors, as the company hunts down hacking attacks and tracks botnets?
Tags: Security, Network security, Security Management, Security implementation/standards
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