Computer Forensic Investigations Industry News
January 2007
Offender expert jailed over porn
A Home Office expert who helped set up a blacklist of violent sex offenders has been jailed for 14 months after admitting child pornography charges. Read full article.
Police struggling to cope with rise of cyber-crime
Police cannot cope with the huge rise in cyber-crime, such as computer viruses, fraud and the online grooming of children, Scotland Yard has admitted. And the scale of the problem has become so large that not all allegations can be investigated. Read full article.
November 2006
T'is the season to be ripped off...
Online fraudsters are gearing up for the massive increase in consumer online shopping due to take place over the festive season. Read full article.
Company fined $3m for adware use
An online advertising company is to pay $3m (£2m) for "unfairly and deceptively" downloading its software onto people's computers. Read full article.
Online banking fraud rises fast
A surge in "phishing" in the first half of 2006 has produced a sharp rise in the amount of money being lost to online banking fraud. Read full article.
Internet child porn block calls
Internet service providers have been urged to publicly declare whether they block the use of websites containing child pornography. Read full article.
Card fraud drops after chip-and-pin
LONDON (Reuters) - Credit card and other card fraud fell 5 percent in the first six months of this year following the introduction of chip-and-pin technology, industry data showed on Tuesday. Read full article.
Online scams target the wealthy
High-income earners are being preferentially targeted by online "phishing" scams, research has shown. Read full article.
August 2006
Cyber Crime: The Wild West, Online
Forget about breaking and entering, aggravated assault and armed robbery. Cyber crime is taking over. Read full article.
Eleven suspects arrested
The Times are ahead of the pack with their coverage of the arrest of eleven suspects who are charged over an alleged airline bomb plot. Read full article.
June 2006
Industry vows fight on child porn
Thousands of child pornography images will be collected into a database to prevent further distribution, a group of online companies has announced. Read full article.
Web paedophile given nine years
A sex offender who was caught through an anti-paedophile website has been given a nine-year jail term for sexual grooming and pornography offences. Read full article.
Hi-tech bank scammer is jailed
A criminal gang used wireless computer technology to hijack Manchester's busiest hole-in-the-wall cashpoint machine. Read full article.
April 2006
New unit targets net paedophiles
A new agency to tackle child abuse and indecent images on the internet has been launched by the Home Office. Read full article.
MySpace tackles teen safety fears
Online networking site MySpace is to address concerns over child safety through adverts warning about the dangers of sexual predators on the web. Read full article.
BT acts against child porn sites
BT customers will soon be prevented from accessing websites containing images of child sexual abuse. Read full article.
March 2006
UK workers abuse net access
Staff misuse of internet access is still rife in the UK despite improvements over the last two years. Read full article.
Man used iPod to store child porn
A man has been arrested after the Peelers found child porn stored on his video iPod. Read full article.
Online child porn ring 'smashed'
An international online child porn ring that used a chat room to transmit live shots of molestation has been cracked, the US federal authorities say. Read full article.
February 2006
One in eight gets offensive e-mails
The scale of harassment over the internet has been revealed for the first time by an official study. Read full article.
Could your business fulfil a demand for electronic evidence?
Nearly every business-led court case in the developed world now involves legal discovery of electronic information, according to a US study by Gartner. Read full article.
September 2005
Organisations need a digital evidence plan
Businesses could lose legal disputes and miss out on insurance claims because of their inability to collect and preserve computer and internet-based evidence, experts have warned. Read full article.
Mobile clues in subway stabbing
Teenagers who recorded the scene of the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old boy on their mobile phones may hold vital clues to an investigation, say police. Read full article.
October 2005
Specialist police units tackle computer crime
Computer crime cost UK businesses £2.4bn last year and this figure is likely to rise unless companies do more to protect themselves. Read full article.
June 2005
£6.5m net phishing fraud lands two men in the clink
Two men have been jailed for conspiracy to defraud and launder money in an international phishing operation that may have stolen £6.5m. Read full article.
April 2005
Information Security Special Report
Changing user behaviour through security policies and education is key to combating IT-based threats. Read full article.
March 2005
National Centre for Child Protection on the net is approved
As part of “Connecting the UK: the digital strategy” to be outlined by the Prime Minister, the Home Office today announced that the Government is to set up a new Centre for Child Protection on the Internet. Read full article.
