police

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

Police Arrest Six Over £1m Phishing Scam

The Metropolitan Police have busted a phishing ring that defrauded students of £1 million

13 years ago

Police Shutter 2,000 Fraudulent Shopping Sites

Fake e-commerce sites defrauded shoppers of millions of pounds ahead of Christmas buying season

13 years ago

Cyber-Crime Data Slips Through The Met

Cyber-crime data is lost because victims refuse to report breaches, Metropolitan Police told Commons

13 years ago

A Day In The Life Of Sussex Police Webcam Action

Sussex Police is offering a 24 hour live video streaming broadcast of its "bobbies on the beat"

13 years ago

West Yorkshire Police Accused Of Copyright Theft

Forensic telecoms expert claims West Yorkshire Police stole its software and sold copyright data on

13 years ago

Facebook Bigot Jailed for Eight Months

Stephen Birrell of Glasgow is sent to prison for sectarian abuse aimed at Catholics and Celtic fans on Facebook.

13 years ago

Dutch ISP Hits Spamhaus With Police Complaints

A Dutch ISP has filed two police complaints against Spamhaus, telling eWEEK Europe that its CEO is "nuts"

13 years ago

Committee Report Labels Police ICT Unfit For Purpose

A report from MPs has warned the police’s ICT is detrimental to crime prevention and is not fit for purpose

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

Police Launch Crime Fighting iPhone App

Surrey Police have launched an app helping the public to report crimes and monitor police activity

13 years ago

RIM Blog Hacked After Police Offered BBM Access

As London burned, Team Poison hacked RIM's Inside BlackBerry blog to protest against company helping police

13 years ago

Lulzsec Suspect Named And Charged With SOCA Hit

Scottish teen Jake Davis charged with attacking police SOCA site, but is he Lulzsec's spokesman Topiary?

13 years ago

Police DNA Database Will Retain ‘Innocent’ Profiles

Home Office minister James Brokenshire has admitted to broken promises of police DNA data erasure

13 years ago

ICO Censures Lancashire Police For Data Breach

Lancashire Police, formerly the haunt of ex-Met boss Paul Stephenson, has been cited for breaching the DPA

13 years ago

Home Office To Create Police ICT Procurement Company

Home Secretary Theresa May is to create a company that specialises in IT procurement for the police

13 years ago

Lulzsec Is Poisoning Anarchism And Whistleblowing

WikiLeaks exposed information and Anonymous attacked copyright moguls. Peter Judge asks, what is Lulzsec's justification?

13 years ago

Alleged Hacker Remanded In Custody

Police continue to question alleged hacker, 19-year-old Ryan Cleary; Lulzsec says he is not one of them

13 years ago

Police Launch National Crime Database

A new database that brings together intelligence from police forces around the UK could speed up investigations

13 years ago

SOCA Website Back Up After Lulzsec DDoS Attack

UPDATED: the Serious and Organised Crime Agency is back online after a hit by hacktivists Lulzsec's 'Operation Anti-Security'

13 years ago

German Pirate Party Servers Seized By Police

The German branch of the Pirate Party, which campaigns for civil rights on the Internet, has been raided

13 years ago

Met Police Adopts Online Procurement Tool

The Metropolitan Police is to utilise an online procurement website to help it procure goods and services

14 years ago

Police Software May Track Innocent, Say Privacy Groups

The Metropolitan Police's purchase of GeoTime tracking software will be misused, warn privacy groups

14 years ago

Scottish Grandmother Convicted Of File-Sharing

58-year-old Anne Muir has become the first person in Scotland to be convicted of illegally sharing music

14 years ago

Police Raid Hits Google Office In South Korea

Police have raided the South Korean office of Google investigating the search engine's use of location data

14 years ago

Library Vandal Gets Face-booked By The Police

A Portsmouth half-wit denied that he flooded a Portsmouth public library - until his Facebook log was produced

14 years ago

Police Make New Arrest In Anonymous Probe

The police have made an arrest of a person suspected of being involved in the pro-WikiLeaks DDoS attacks

14 years ago

Police Promise Rapid Identification Of Stolen Phones

Phone thieves beware, as the police now have the ability to quickly identify stolen mobile phones

14 years ago

Tayside Police Puts Bobbies On The Tweet

Community police officers in South Perthshire will use Twitter to help prevent crime

14 years ago

Google Refuses Police Request For Street View Image

Google is refusing to give police access to a Street View image that shows thieves stealing a caravan

14 years ago