cybercrime Archives - Alan Calder on IT Governance, Cyber Resilience, ISO 27001 and Brexit

Protect Your Company from Cybercrime

Alan Calder May 25, 2010 Data Protection, ISO 27001, IT Governance, IT Security, White Collar Crime

This interesting article explains why old-fashioned crime – robbing a bank, say – has now gone online. It’s quicker, easier, and safer for the criminal. That does mean that organisations have to take care to protect themselves against cyber-criminals – …

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New UK Computer Crime Unit

Alan Calder October 3, 2008 Data Breaches, Data Protection, ISO 27001, IT Security, PCI DSS, White Collar Crime

Well, that’s a relief – the UK government has caught up with the fact that there are criminals on the Internet. The government has said that it will spend £7 million to establish the Police Central E-crime Unit (PceU) in …

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Cybercrime legislation

Alan Calder May 30, 2006 IT Security

Progress on both sides of the Atlantic in strengthening national laws against cybercrime. In the States, the House Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that proposes some fairly robust measures against transgressors. This seems the sort of toughening up that …

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