Met Police

UK Police Holding Bitcoin Worth £1.4 Billion – Report

One of the world’s largest asset seizures saw British police in 2018 seize four devices containing more than 61,000 bitcoin

10 months ago

Manchester Police Officer Data Compromised In Supplier Attack

Ransomware attack on third-party supplier has compromised data of staff employed by Greater Manchester Police (GMP)

1 year ago

Met Police Contractor Hack Places Officer Data At Risk

Metropolitan Police on high alert following a significant breach of an IT contractor, led to officers' and workers' data being…

1 year ago

Facial Recognition Used By Police Fails To Correctly ID Suspects

Oh boy. Facial recognition technology used by police gets identities wrong 81 percent of the time, study finds

5 years ago

Met Police To Store CCTV Footage In The Cloud On Box

Met continues its digital transformation drive with Box deal

7 years ago

Government ‘Can Change’ Despite GDS Turmoil And Long-Term IT Contracts With Megavendors

UK Cloud CEO says there is evidence of a culture shift in Whitehall as smaller vendors wouldn't have got a…

8 years ago

Met Police Still Has 27,000 PCs Running Windows XP

Met Police's insistence on running aging Windows XP is putting Londoners' personal data at risk, it is claimed

8 years ago

Why Is The Met Police Still Outsourcing Multi-Million IT Deals To Huge Suppliers?

IN DEPTH: Sooraj Shah investigates whether there is any logic in 2016 for the Met to sign long-term deals with…

8 years ago

Met Police Chief: Don’t Reward Victims Of Online Fraud

Bernard Horgan-Howe says that focus should be on helping public improve online protection

9 years ago

Met Anti-Terror Chief Slams “Unhelpful” Social Media Companies

Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley claims social media giants aren't doing enough to help police with the fight against terrorism

9 years ago

DDoS Attack Shuts Down Parenting Website Mumsnet

Armed police also attend Mumsnet founder's home following a 'swatting attack'. Oh, and the website's been hacked, too

9 years ago

Fake Mobile Towers Spy On UK Phone Users

British mobile users revealed to be under survelliance from police and other forces using fake mobile phone towers

9 years ago

Man Arrested For Filming Football Matches With Drone

The ultimate cheap seat! Man charged after drone was used to film a number of English premiership football matches

10 years ago

Met Police Says Tablets Save Officers One Hour Every Shift

Met Police wants to expand trial of Vodafone 4G-enabled tablets after success in the field

10 years ago

Met Police To Wear Body Cameras

The Met police are to wear body cameras, claiming it should lead to swifter prosecutions as people know they've been…

11 years ago

TeamPoison Teenage Chief Pleads Guilty

TeamPoison's 18-year-old chief pleads guilty, as other members of the hacking group continue to be investigated

12 years ago

Police BlackBerry Scheme Slated In New Report

The scheme to equip Britain's police forces with BlackBerry phones has been heavily criticised in a report by MPs

12 years ago

Met Police To Use 1980s Software To Safeguard Olympics

Scotland Yard has confirmed that the Met will be using command and control software from the 1980s during this summer's…

13 years ago