The UK Metropolitan Police’s Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) is warning Internet users about the massive malware campaign that locks computers allegedly in the name of the law enforcement agency.
Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center informed us a while back that the campaign is targeting users from all acro... |
14 February 2012
07:02 GMT |
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The conference call between the FBI and the UK Metropolitan Police, leaked by Anonymous a few days ago, didn’t cause concern only among law enforcement agencies. Now, a Sheffield Member of Parliament (MP), David Blunkett, demands an apology after the British agents mocked Sheffield in the call with their US cou... |
13 February 2012
05:32 GMT |
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A number of 1,136 individuals who were victims of car thieves or pickpockets received a wrongly configured email as part of a survey that revealed the e-mail addresses of all the other recipients.
The Guardian reports that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has been informed on the error, Scotland Yar... |
2 February 2012
10:26 GMT |
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The Metropolitan Police’s e-crime Unit (PCeU) identified a large number of websites that were set up to scam individuals who are planning to attend next year’s London Olympics.
According to The Guardian, a total of 2,000 websites were already taken offline, but a few hundred still remain under careful su... |
27 December 2011
07:03 GMT |
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December 8 was a good day for the UK Metropolitan Police Service's (MPS) Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) since they managed to apprehend six people suspected of running a massive phishing operation that targeted hundreds of UK students.
The alleged cybercriminals managed to earn more than £1million (... |
10 December 2011
05:27 GMT |
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Wanting to make Christmas shopping safer for everyone, the Metropolitan Police's e-Crime Unite (PceU) went into play and took down 2000 websites that were considered to be run by crooks who were after an illegal profit.
The numerous websites were earning millions for their owners, and not millions of Rupees, ... |
19 November 2011
03:44 GMT |
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The website of the UK Metropolitan Police is filled with information that probably should not be posted for anyone to access and read.According to AccessDocs, a large number of documents are currently online, containing all sorts of info that should not be available for the public to view and utilize.The Disclosure L... |
18 October 2011
02:40 GMT |
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In light of the recent arrests of Anonymous and LulzSec members, the UK Metropolitan Police Service warns people against taking up hacktivism.Anonymous has already issued a statement which defiantly dismisses the recent wave of arrests across US and Europe as futile attempts at disrupting its social movement."It is o... |
3 August 2011
14:16 GMT |
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The Metropolitan Police has arrested a teenager from Essex on suspicion of participating in recent cyber attacks against international businesses and intelligence agencies.The 19-year-old was arrested in his house in Wickford, Essex, last night. A search of the residence has resulted in the seizure of a significant a... |
21 June 2011
08:50 GMT |
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UK's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is investigating both older and recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks orchestrated by Anonymous.MPS launched its probe into the hacktivist group's actions after receiving complaints from several affected organizations during the last couple of months."Ear... |
16 December 2010
12:15 GMT |
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The Metropolitan Police Service has released the names of eleven Eastern Europeans charged for their roles in a major cyberfraud operation that involved using a computer trojan called ZeuS.Twenty suspects, fifteen men and five women, were arrested short before dawn on Tuesday, following police raids at various locati... |
30 September 2010
12:54 GMT |
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There's no other way of reporting this except with a big grin all over the face, because of the target and the message left behind by the hackers. It's one of those good jokes that might have a very unfortunate ending should the hacker ever get caught, and it would be a shame, really.The Metropolitan Police... |
25 February 2008
14:31 GMT |
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