crime

High-tech cops probe premium-rate Internet fraud

News ICSTIS has been forced to call in the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) after being hit with a surge in complaints. We can't work out what the problem is, so have recently started talking to the Hi-Tech Crime Unit so they can do a criminal...

23 June 2004, 14:25 > More matches in News

Police force joins Facebook

News Greater Manchester Police established an application called GMP Updates on Facebook, providing users with crime news, appeals and missing-persons stories. Manchester Police is proud to be the first force in the country to use this new technology...

Tags: contacts, status, privacy, force

22 April 2008, 8:53 > More matches in News

News.blog: GTA IV maker sues over pulled ads

News Take-Two Interactive Software sued the Chicago Transit Authority on Monday for allegedly pulling its ads promoting the latest version of the action-driving and crime game just days after the ads began appearing, thus violating its free-speech and...

Tags: ads, auto, sales, theft

6 May 2008, 8:33 > More matches in News

Police to become masters of cybercrime

News Apart from specialist cybercrime teams, such as the Hi-Tech Crime Unit, the police regularly demonstrate that they are unprepared and under resourced to handle the recent explosion in computer-related crimes.

3 June 2004, 16:50 > More matches in News

SiN Gold

Downloads You will blast your way through complex levels of unholy terror as you investigate the secret source of the crime epidemic plaguing the city. Transport yourself into the crime ridden 21st century, which is seething with mutating characters, and...

5 March 2008, 8:19 > More matches in Downloads

Gadget fans warned to beware of thieves

News This type of crime often happens in or around public transport so the posters will mainly appear on the London Underground and outside train and bus stations, where people are likely to use their mobiles and MP3 players.

10 October 2006, 10:34 > More matches in News

Conservatives target videogames

News On the topic of the rise in crime in the UK, Cameron stated that a Conservative government, if elected, would give the police more power by abolishing the need to file forms to question members of the public, and reform current alcohol licensing...

30 August 2007, 8:41 > More matches in News

Brits sent down for writing viruses

News The two were identified by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) as members of the hacking group 'THr34t Krew'. Detective Superintendent Mick Deats, deputy head of the NHTCU, said in a statement: "Over the past year, the National Hi-Tech Crime...

10 October 2005, 10:00 > More matches in News

eBay nightmares

Digital Living In fact, auction fraud accounts for nearly three-quarters of all complaints posted to the Internet Crime Centre. According to the Internet Crime Complaint Centre, the buyer knew nothing more about the seller than his or her e-mail address in most...

7 May 2005, 15:43 > More matches in Digital Living

Gadget theft can be stopped

News On Wednesday, the New York City police reported that a recent increase in subway crime was primarily attributable to thefts of portable devices, largely mobile phones and iPods. But the phenomenon is not limited to the subway, of course -- and is...

28 April 2005, 15:54 > More matches in News

Photos: Mayhem abounds in 'Grand Theft Auto IV'

News Gamers will play the character of illegal immigrant Niko Bellic as he tries to make ends meet as a car thief and hit man for the various warring crime syndicates. Gamers learn the ins and outs of organised crime -- like how to dispose of a body.

Tags: city, gamers, theft, iv

30 April 2008, 9:33 > More matches in News

MP calls for international cybercrime taskforce

News If a crime involves a complex international Web of criminal activity, it can be difficult to gather sufficient evidence for a conviction, according to Howard Lamb, crime reduction coordinator for the National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU).

24 October 2005, 9:27 > More matches in News

'Clean up this Internet effluent now'

News The connection to organised crime can be seen specifically in two areas. What really are linking the spammers to organised crime directly are the recent "phishing" attempts that we've seen and the way in which the money is subsequently being...

7 May 2004, 15:10 > More matches in News

Rewards shift nature of worm hunt

News A: The antivirus reward program is designed to provide incentives for law enforcement to get information so that somebody who is a witness of a crime comes forward. He then joined the Justice Department's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property...

11 June 2004, 10:25 > More matches in News

Crave Talk: Robberies rise, escape with your iPod

Crave Rise in crime blamed on iPods", yells the front page of London's Metro. A separate British Crime Survey, however, suggests robbery has risen by 22 per cent, to 311,000. If you've got any of your own tips on avoiding iPod crime, let us know -- leave...

Tags: london, tape, hole, crime

20 July 2006, 11:29 > More matches in Crave