Metropolitan Police

Met Boss: Facial Recognition Less Concerning Than Knife In Chest

The United Kingdom's most senior police officer Cressida Dick has strongly defended the use of facial recognition by police forces

5 years ago

Court Orders Jailed Hacker’s Seized Bitcoin To Be Sold To Pay Victims

Nearly £1m in Bitcoin taken from imprisoned hacker Grant West is to be sold to compensate victims, in a first-of-its-kind…

5 years ago

Police Boss Demands Speedy Facebook Data Access

Met Police Commissioner says detectives need access to material from social media companies "within minutes"

6 years ago

BT Wins £100 Million Contract To Boost Metropolitan Police Network

BT will play a key role in the Met's digital transformation efforts across London

8 years ago

Police Ambush Criminal To Bypass iPhone Security

How to get around the problem of a locked smartphone? Just ambush the criminal when he is using it. Simples

8 years ago

MPs To Probe TalkTalk Hack As Police Arrest Fourth Suspect

Police arrest fourth TalkTalk hack suspect as Committee of MPs announces launch of formal investigation

9 years ago

Met Police Still Running 35,000 Windows XP Systems

London's police service is still heavily dependent upon Windows XP, a year after the end of official support from Microsoft

10 years ago

Police Chief Warns ‘Terrorist Friendly’ Tech Firms

Britain's top anti-terrorism policeman launches extraordinary attack on unnamed tech firms

10 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

Cyber Crooks Jailed After ‘Biggest Ever UK Phishing Scam’

PCeU and SOCA hit big cyber crime ring

11 years ago

EE 4G Customer Data ‘Offered To Police’

EE is accused of betraying customers' trust but it firmly denies it has done nothing of the sort

11 years ago

Met Arrests Three On London Phishing Trip

PCeU and SOCA collaborating on phishing investigation

12 years ago

Another Journalist Arrested On Computer Hacking Charges

Ex-News of the World journalist believed to be suspect

12 years ago

Journalist Arrested By Met Over Phone Hacking

28 year old man is arrested by Operation Tuleta officers investigating phone hacking

12 years ago

Met Arrests Ex-Times Journalist In Computer Hacking Investigation

Former Times journalist and Guardian and Telegraph freelancer arrested

12 years ago

UK Gov And Met Police Implicated In TrapWire Surveillance Scare

Number 10 and Scotland Yard named in leaked emails from Wikileaks

12 years ago

Teen Team Poison Leader Jailed Over Tony Blair Address Book

Team Poison leader is sent to prison for six months after stealing Tony Blair's address book and pestering the Met

12 years ago

PCeU Chief: We’re Punching Above Our Weight

The head of the PCeU says the unit is doing a lot with not much funding. Does she want more?

12 years ago

The Met: We Must Do Better In War On Cyber Crime

Commander Allan Gibson says fresh data sharing initiatives will help the Met get better at fighting cyber fraud

12 years ago

Met Launches Major Offensive On Online Fraud

The Met and the British Retail Consortium are working together as part of a major initiative to catch online fraudsters

12 years ago

Alleged TeaMp0ison Member Charged With Computer Misuse

A 17-year-old is charged for two offences, one relating to the Anti-Terror Hotline hoax calls, another to the Computer Misuse…

13 years ago

Two Possible TeaMp0isoN Members Arrested

The Metropolitan Police denies the hack, TeaMp0isoN denies the arrests. So nothing happened?

13 years ago

UK Police Launch Regional Cybercrime Hubs

The Association of Chief Police Officers unveil three cybercrime units in Yorkshire and the Humber, the north-west and east Midlands

13 years ago

Police Chiefs Reject Draft Plan For IT Procurement

Police chiefs have rejected the first draft of a plan allowing a private company to manage police IT systems

13 years ago

UK-based Gang Jailed For £3 Million Cyber-Fraud

Two Ukranian ringleaders are among 13 jailed for infecting computers with malware and stealing £2.9 million

13 years ago

Met Police Acquires Mobile Phone Monitoring Kit

The Met Police will not confirm reports that it has acquired technology to monitor mobile phone calls

13 years ago

Police Score More Arrests In Hunt For Hackers

The Met's e-Crime unit has bagged two more suspected 'hacktivists' and charged a further two

13 years ago

Met Tweets To Lulzsec, US Calls Them ‘Script Kiddies’

The Met took to Twitter to warn off would be hackers as the US government reported on hacktivists

13 years ago

Did The Met Nab Voice Of LulzSec In Shetlands Raid?

LulzSec suspect Topiary was arrested in the Shetland Isles but the word on the web is he was framed

13 years ago

Brazilian Government Latest Lulzsec Victim

Websites of the Brazilian government have suffered DDoS attacks, adding to a growing list of 'hacktivism' victims

13 years ago