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McAfee Founder Wanted For Murder Questioning

John McAfee is on the run from police and is wanted for questioning for the murder of a neighbour and…

12 years ago

Anonymous Hacks Police Forum, Sends Emails To Officers

Hackers ask police and armed forces to participate in Operation Jubilee

12 years ago

Police Security Tightened After Assange Supporter ‘Steals’ Data

Hackers continue to back Julian Assange in earnest, claiming they stole data from two UK police forces

12 years ago

Police To Investigate School Children’s Data Leak

An alleged hack attack sees children's data leaked online

12 years ago

UK Authorities Threaten Ecuador Embassy Raid For Assange

Assange is facing arrest, but Ecuador says it will respond if the UK intervenes in an asylum attempt

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

Police Hunt Is On For Ransomware Scam Affecting 1,100 Systems

Ransomware pushers are pretending to be the PCeU to strip people of their funds

12 years ago

Home Office Creates Private Police Technology Company

Police ICT Company will cut costs by combining contracts

12 years ago

Big Data Privacy Fears? Let’s Love Big Brother!

Do you have Big Data privacy concerns? Dominic Pollard says we should relax and trust Big Brother

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

Police Minister Slates IT Delays

Coppers are lagging on tech, says Minister Nick Herbert

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 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

Facebook Hacker Given 12 Month Sentence

Man from Sussex tracked down by Met Police's e-Crime Unit for Facebook account hack

13 years ago

Twitter Resists US Injunction To Hand Over Protester Tweets

Twitter is resisting a US injunction ordering it to hand over Tweets from an Occupy Wall Street protestor

13 years ago

Host of Credit Card Data Selling Websites Shut Down

SOCA helps stop data-selling fraudsters spread in a major global operation

13 years ago

Australian Police Wanted For Mass Software Piracy

New South Wales Police allegedly broke licensing agreement and shared software with other law enforcement agencies

13 years ago

How Facebook’s Paedophile Blocking Can Backfire

Facebook's blocking system is flawed, but linguistic and behavioural software can fix it, argues Tom Brewster

13 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

Abortion Hacker Sentenced To 32 Months

James Jeffery pleads guilty to hacking BPAS website and records

13 years ago

Police Looking Into Allegations Phorm Wined and Dined Officer

TechWeekEurope learns the police are investigating claims one of its officers was taken to lunch by Phorm in 2010

13 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

Met Arrests 14 Over £1m Phishing Scam

PCeU strikes again, taking in 14 people during an investigation into a major phishing operation

13 years ago

Police Arrest Man Accused Of Hacking Abortion Website

Man believed to have links with Anonymous is arrested by Met Police's e-Crime unit after BPAS is hacked

13 years ago

The Dangerous World Of Bring Your Own Devastation (BYOD)

A Bring Your Own Device policy has many attractive attributes but the security risks can be enormous and, as yet,…

13 years ago

Met Police Alerts ICO After It Shares 1,000 Victims’ Email Adresses

The Metropolitan Police apologises after it sends 1,136 emails while sending out a survey

13 years ago

BlackBerry: From Police Tool To Looters’ Toy?

The UK police's BlackBerry project has been criticised, but is kicking BlackBerry just this year's fashion, asks Peter Judge

13 years ago

Police BlackBerry Scheme Slated For Lack Of Organisation

According to the National Audit Office, the government programme “did not provide value for money”

13 years ago

Lincolnshire Police Outsource IT Systems In £200m Deal

Lincolnshire Police Authority agree deal with G4S which could save £28m

13 years ago