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UK launches regional cybercrime hubs

Units in Yorkshire and the Humber, the Northwest and East Midlands will help fight battle against online threats. Three specialist police cybercrime teams have been created across the UK to tackle the growing threat of online crime. Th [...]

Posted On : Feb, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

Report on UK cybercrime statistics reveals culprits and resp...

Cybercrime is on the rise in UK businesses, but companies are doing little to protect themselves against it and other forms of fraud. According to the latest Global Economic Crime Survey by management consultants Pricewaterhouse Cooper [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Cyber crime unit saves UK economy £140m in six months

A Metropolitan police unit claims to have saved the economy more than £140m in the past six months and is on course to exceed its four-year "harm reduction" target, the force said on Sunday. The Met said the central e-crim [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Cyber crime costs UK economy £27bn a year

Cyber crime costs the UK economy £27 billion a year, £21bn to businesses, £2.2bn to government and £3.1bn to citizens, according to the government’s first official estimate of the scale of the fraud. Securit [...]

Posted On : Feb, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

UK cyber crime costs £27bn a year

The figures, published for the first time, are a mid-range estimate and the real cost could be much higher. They are made up of £21bn of costs to businesses, £2.2bn to government and £3.1bn to citizens. Security ministe [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

UK adopts EU cyber crime directive

The Government will opt into a European Union directive aimed at taking action against cyber criminals operating overseas, junior home office minister James Brokenshire has said. The EU Directive on Attacks Against Information Systems wi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Cyber crime: One of the biggest threats to UK security

The coalition Government has admitted cyber crime could do “grave damage” to the UK and has pledged to tackle the threat with a boost in funding. In a document published today entitled “A Strong Britain in an Age of Unc [...]

Posted On : Oct, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

Time for the UK to act on cybercrime

Until now, the coalition government, and the Labour government before it, has merely paid lip-service to the threat posed by serious cybercrime. It has effectively ignored calls from industry bodies, the media and security experts to mak [...]

Posted On : Oct, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

UK crime falls by seven per cent

The substantial drop was accompanied by further falls in gun and knife crime, including a 21% fall in fatal stabbings. According to the figures, backed by the British Crime Survey (BCS), the risk of becoming a victim of crime remains at [...]

Posted On : Apr, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Crimes involving Facebook up by 346 percent: UK Police

Crimes involving social networking site Facebook have increased by 346 percent in less than a year, a police report said. Incidents of abuse or other crimes involving the site reported to Nottinghamshire police rose to 58 between April 2 [...]