A new ploy involving child pornography is being used by extortionists targeting online betting firms with denial of service blackmail threats. The UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), which arrested three suspected ringleaders of one of the...
The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) is targeting SMEs in a campaign to raise awareness of computer crime. The NHTCU has produced a booklet for small firms advising them of how to protect themselves from the usual security threats, including...
Microsoft has identified several regional piracy "hotspots", such as Glasgow, Manchester and Middlesbrough, which its enforcement team will be targeting over the next year. Pirating software is still seen as a low-risk, high-reward crime.
They have been primarily targeting UK businesses since at least 2005, and during this time, thousands of computers are known to have been infected across the globe. The Metropolitan Computer Crime Unit (CCU), the Finnish National Bureau of...
He said: "As the iPhone's popularity grows, we are going to see more threats targeting Apple. However, despite all these vulnerabilities, the Mac's resilient platform, its advanced automatic software update tools and the apparent lack of attention...
Cyber crime targeting businesses is on the rise - while there were no reports of phishing emails in a 2004 BCC survey, the 2008 report found 31 per cent had fallen foul of phishing and 23 per cent had machines infected by spyware.