U.K. police: We're overwhelmed by e-crime
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Metropolitan Police in London suggests creating national cybercrime unit to help local police departments coordinate efforts.
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LONDON - Police smashed a global Internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide, authorities said Monday.  Some 200 suspects are based in Britain, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center said.
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LONDON - Police shattered a global Internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide, British authorities said Monday.  Some 200 suspects are based in the United Kingdom, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection center said.
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British police, with U.S. investigators, shatter a global internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide. Authorities bust an internet chat room hosting horrific images and streaming live videos of kids.
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Hundreds of police raided homes across Australia to smash an international Internet child porn ring, federal officers said today. In a brief statement, the Australian Federal Police said it had searched hundreds
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Also: E-voting a 'threat' to UK democracy. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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British forensic police officers search through boxes outside a grocery store in Birmingham, England Wednesday Jan.Comment
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LONDON -- British police, aided by US authorities, have smashed a global Internet pedophile ring that broadcast live-streamed videos of children being abused, investigating more than 700 suspects worldwide and rescuing 31 children in a 10-month probe, officials said yesterday .
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A British prosecutor said on Wed-nesday that authorities seized 100 computers containing thousands of files and had issued 52 terrorism-related warrants in the investigation that led to charges against eight men for conspiracy to commit murder in an ...
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IT workers who've come across evidence of computer crime often find themselves facing a confusing array of options when trying to figure out where they should report their findings.
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The government's strategy on knife crime is &quot;incoherent&quot; and irrational, according to a study, as knife crime in England and Wales surged in the past year, despite an amnesty that saw nearly 90,000 knives being handed in to police last month.
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Why settle for just emptying an online bank account? Scammers conned both a mortgage firm and a bank to hit an IT director for Â£60,000. UK police are hunting the gang responsible for the scam, and at least nine others like it, that are estimated to have netted ID fraudsters hundreds of thousands of pounds, The Times reports.â¦
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Police smashed a global Internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide, British authorities said Monday.Some 200 suspects are based in the United Kingdom, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection center said. The ring was traced to an Internet chat room called 'Kids the Light of Our Lives' that featured images of children being subjected to horrific sexual abuse. Read more
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British police were questioning seven people after seizing a cache of weapons including handguns and hand grenades believed to have been bought over the internet.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.K.'s trial of e-voting and e-counting technologies during last month's local elections resulted in crashed computers and technicians scratching their heads while posing new concerns about the systems' security and reliability, a new report has concluded. In one area of England, a manual recount performed after e-counting equipment was abandoned because of delays turned up a raft of uncounted votes, said Jason Kitcat, e-voting coordinator for the Open Rights Group, which deployed observers to polling sites in England and Scotland. The group, which has been critical of e-voting and e-counting, has submitted its 64-page report to the U.K. Electoral Commission, which will publish its own report on the trials on Aug. 3. The Department for Constitutional Affairs, which oversaw the pilot programs, said it welcomed the role of observers but would reserve comment until the Electoral Commission publishes its report. The Electoral Commission also did not comment. The U.K., which embarked on a voting modernization program in 2000, held trials in 13 administrative areas in England. Scotland replaced manual counting with e-counting technologies for the first time. The government has backed e-voting technologies, including postal voting and Internet voting, to increase voter participation. Open Rights Group volunteers watched how polling stations conducted e-voting, but much of the process was opaque due to the nature of how e-voting machines work, Kitcat said. The majority of polling stations experienced technical problems, ranging from laptop problems to unreliable electronic registers, the report said. Employees of vendors whose equipment was deployed refused to interact with observers, Kitcat said. "No one would really say what was going on," Kitcat said. "It was all so mysterious." However, observers did identify potential security problems. The report includes photographs of PC workstations and hubs with open ports, a possible security risk. "Network hubs were left on the floor with power and network connections loose," the report said. "In one case in Edinburgh, a hub was observed in easy reach of attendees, with ports free lying beneath a table providing an opportunity for unauthorized access to the e-counting system's network." E-counting scanners proved finicky due to incorrect paper sizes, scanner sensitivity and trouble in handling low-quality perforations on ballots. The most curious error in e-counting occurred in a ward in Breckland, England, where voters were give two ballots: one each for district council and parish elections. Officials tried an electronic count, but came up with far fewer district ballots than parish ballots when the two counts should be roughly the same, Kitcat said. A manual recount turned up about 56 percent more district council ballots. "We haven't been given an explanation by the election official or suppliers," Kitcat said. In Scotland, observers noted that election officials could log into the e-counting software merely by scanning a bar code on their identification badges, which the Open Rights Group cited as another security concern. Some election officials were positive about using new election technologies, but "the lack of general technical understanding and knowledge about the e-counting and e-voting systems across election staff was perturbing," the report said. Â
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Duo arrested for 1.6b e-mails   Two computer programmers have been arrested on suspicion of sending out 1.6 billion spam e-mail messages, violating commerce laws, police said yesterday.
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Police play down suggestion they are investigating internet 'suicide chain' after series of deaths