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Greater Manchester Police is struggling with a partial outage of a Capita-built computer system used by frontline officers to input information. The PoliceWorks systems, which form part of the force's new iOPS - a £27m project undertaken by everyone's favourite outsourcer - went down after a planned IT upgrade at midnight on Monday.
So says Mieke Eoyang, long-time US government policy adviser and veep of the national security program at Washington DC think tank Third Way. After citing figures from Uncle Sam that show only three in 1,000 cyber-crimes are actually prosecuted - the actual ratio could be closer to three in 100,000 as the FBI tends to underestimate the extent of cyber-crime, she explained - Eoyang said police and agents are either told not to pursue online fraudsters or not given the training and resources to do so.
A US state that was struck by a ransomware attack last year is now proposing a local law that would ban possession of malicious software. Local news website the Baltimore Fishbowl reported that Maryland's Senate heard arguments on Senate Bill SB0030, a proposition that would "Label the possession and intent to use ransomware in a malicious manner as a misdemeanor" punishable with up to 10 years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine.
With only seven months left for nations to pass laws and virtual asset service providers (VASPs) to comply with the guidelines, the majority of cryptocurrency exchanges are not equipped to handle...
Accenture has introduced a compliance-as-a-service offering to help financial institutions, fintech and technology companies cost-effectively combat financial crime and comply with related...
Hackers turn to old-school mail-forwarding scams to commit modern-day ID theft and financial crimes.
Massachusetts judge reminds America of that little thing called the Fourth Amendment The seizure and search of phones and laptops at the US border is unconstitutional, a judge said Tuesday in a...
An elaborate fraudster ring stole PII then used DoD and VA benefits portals to steal payments and funds from bank accounts.
Our old friend the Investigatory Powers Act says so A radio ham has been caught eavesdropping on NHS medics' pager messages, translating the signals into text while broadcasting them on the...
Our old friend the Investigatory Powers Act says so A radio electronics geek has been caught eavesdropping on NHS medics' pager messages, translating the signals into text while broadcasting them...