> > The new Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) will provide specialist > officer training and co-ordinate cross-force initiatives to crack down > on on-line offences. > > http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009434o-2000331759b,00.htm > > This is great news, i've been fighting for this ever since the > National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) was closed down and merged into > SOCA in 2006. > I sure hope they have actually employed some investigative staff who actually have a clue about how things work, and are actually going to work towards improving the failing legal framework in which they work ("the attacker wasn't in the UK so we can't help"??), rather than re-hiring the same staff from the NHTCU.
Having had to call them up due to an unnoticed hole left by a previous systems administrator that was exploited (obviously I was f**ked off that I missed it), I wished I hadn't bothered in the end. They were no help at all. I don't think we even received a crime reference number for the incident. It was a weird experience, though, it seemed more as though they were trying to work out my skills (and why would they want to know other than as a prelude to either hiring, or [eek!] framing me?), rather than being interested in the actual incident. ISTR the excuse was they were 'going for' this guy because it was more 'high profile': http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39226548,00.htm Which oddly, sounds rather like the McKinnon case in some respects, but enough about that one already! K. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/