crime

Thousands Of London Police Get Wearable Video Cameras

The body-worn video cameras are to be rolled out to 22,000 officers across London's 32 boroughs

8 years ago

Twitter Data Will Be Used To Tackle LA Hate Crime

An $800,000 grant has been awarded to the University to create a social network powered hate speech detecting system

8 years ago

Government Cracks Down On Illegal Phones In Prisons

Government gets powers to blacklist phones it thinks are being used by criminals behind bars

8 years ago

ONS Figures Show UK Cybercrime Doubled In Past Year

Office for National Statistic report shows that one in ten people are victims of fraud or cybercrime

8 years ago

Facebook Live: Important New Witness To Crimes

NEWS ANALYSIS: You can run but you cannot hide from a ubiquitous social network like Facebook - especially now that…

8 years ago

Apple Cranks iOS Encryption In Face Of FBI Flak

All iOS applications will be required to use Secure HTTP by the end of this year, with a few exceptions

8 years ago

FBI Says Suspect iPhone Password Reset Was Deliberate

Investigators would have needed to crack the shooting suspect's iPhone even if its iCloud password hadn't been reset, the FBI…

9 years ago

These ‘Hack-Proof’ RFID Chips Could Stop Your Cash Being Stolen

MIT researchers have created RFID chips, which they believe will vastly improve security of credit cards, key cards and warehouse…

9 years ago

Tinder And Grindr Increasingly Linked To Reports of Rape And Violent Crime

Alleged crimes connected to dating apps have increased by 700 percent since 2013

9 years ago

Apple: Investigatory Powers Bill Would ‘Weaken Security’

The controversial surveillance bill would put users' communications at risk from hackers, Apple has argued in a submission to Parliament

9 years ago

The Robot ‘Jailed’ For Buying Ecstasy Online Is Back

Random Darknet Shopper robot was kept in police custody for three months, but now it's randomly buying goods on Dark…

9 years ago

Government To Bolster Prison Mobile Blocking Tech

A £1.3bn investment in prisons is to go in part toward blocking mobile devices used to import drugs and organise…

9 years ago

EU Plans Cryptocurrency Clampdown Following Paris Attacks

Bitcoin could come under scrutiny following concerns about terrorism funding

9 years ago

Amazon, eBay ‘Liable’ If Ignore VAT Fraud

Campaigners say the government must take action against online VAT fraud worth billions of pounds a year

9 years ago

Microsoft Azure Fires Shots At AWS With Taser Customer Win

TASER will integrate Evidence.com and Axon camera systems with Microsoft Azure cloud platform and Windows 10 devices

9 years ago

Intel Shines Light On Dark Web Activity

Intel shines a light on murky underworld of the cybercrime economy, where stolen data is regularly brought and sold

9 years ago

Cybercrime Is Now Britain’s Most Common Criminal Offence

Inclusion of more than seven million cyber offences pushes British crime rate up 70 percent, ONS figures reveal

9 years ago

Malware Creator Jailed For Infecting More Than Half a Million Computers

Alex Yucel jailed for almost five years after stealing computer users' personal data in 100-plus countries

9 years ago

Robot That Bought Ecstasy On Dark Web Freed By Police After Three Months

The Random Darknet Shopper had bought 10 yellow pills containing 90mg of ecstasy each as part of artists' experiment

10 years ago

Lizard Squad Hacks Lenovo Website And Intercepts Emails

Lenovo's main corporate website compromised in apparent revenge for Superfish adware

10 years ago

Police Must ‘Learn How To Support Cybercrime Victims’

'Sluggish' police are trying to catch today's criminals with yesterday's tactics, according to critics

10 years ago

How Much Will Cybercrime Cost Us In 2015?

Orlando Scott-Cowley, director of technology marketing at Mimecast, looks back on the Target and Home Depot cyber attacks, and asks…

10 years ago

MPs Withdraw Backing From Post Office Fraud Row Mediation Scheme

More than 140 MPs said they can no longer support the Post Office's mediation scheme for sub-postmasters who say computer…

10 years ago

Hacker Pays To Avoid 440 Year Prison Sentence

No brainer of the day? A hacker in Texas pays $10,000 to avoid a possible 440-year prison sentence

10 years ago

First ‘Online Murder’ Could Happen By The End Of The Year

The Internet of Things could turn out to be a killer, Europol report warns

10 years ago

Dubai Police Force Gets Google Glass To Help Fight Crime

Judge Dredd-esque look will give officers facial recognition software to identify criminals

10 years ago

Mapping And Analytics Software Helps Police Weed Out Cannabis Farms

Crimestoppers announces 20 percent increase in information on cannabis cultivation following summer Scratch and Sniff campaign

10 years ago

One In Four UK Consumers Have Fallen Victims To Smartphone Thieves

You are most likely to get your phone stolen in a pub between 12pm and 5pm

10 years ago

Cameron Calls For ‘More Action’ Against Online Child Abuse Images

The government is to convene a summit with leading Internet companies, including search engines and ISPs, on how the industry…

11 years ago

Online Fraud Takes $525m Toll On US Consumers

Online automobile fraud topped the list of Internet crime complaints reported by US citizens last year

12 years ago