News

• Senetas jumps into the UK market

  By Julia Talevski | 29 June, 2010 10:51

  The Melbourne-based company has acquired Focus Group to help set up a UK presence

• Google Street View cars mapped UK's Wi-Fi networks

  By Carrie-Ann Skinner | 02 June, 2010 00:26

  Google's Street View Cars have logged every wireless network in the UK, it has been revealed.

• Google Nexus One to hit UK on April 30

  By Carrie-Ann Skinner | 27 April, 2010 05:07

  Vodafone has made the Google Nexus One available for pre-order.

• UK kicks off program to recruit security gurus

  By Jeremy Kirk | 28 April, 2010 05:33

  The U.K. is planning to hold computer security exercises later this year to spark interest in the field and address a shortage of professionals in the country, a program modeled after one started in the U.S.

• Law enforcement push for stricter domain name rules

  By Jeremy Kirk | 18 March, 2010 05:04

  Law enforcement officials in the U.K. and U.S. are pushing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to put in place measures that would help reduce abuse of the domain name system.

• Counterfeit card fraud drops by half in the UK

  By Jeremy Kirk | 11 March, 2010 08:17

  Fraud losses due to counterfeit payment cards fell by half in 2009 from the year prior in the U.K., but online banking losses continued to rise, according to new banking industry figures released Wednesday.

• Britain all atweet over Twitter phishing attack

  By Martyn Williams | 01 March, 2010 23:44

  The latest phishing attack on Twitter users swept the U.K. overnight claiming several prominent users.

• UK registry to implement DNS security protocol

  By Jeremy Kirk | 01 March, 2010 03:34

  Nominet, the U.K.'s domain name registry, will begin implementing a security protocol on Monday designed to protect the DNS (Domain Name System).

• Former iSOFT bosses charged with fraud

  By Mike Simons | 11 January, 2010 05:04

  The UK Financial Services Authority has launched fraud proceedings against four former directors of iSOFT Group.

• UK hacker granted short extension in extradition case

  By Jeremy Kirk | 03 December, 2009 06:30

  The U.K. government will give a British hacker a short extension to challenge an extradition order to face trial in the U.S.

• T-Mobile UK employees sold customer data

  By Nancy Gohring | 18 November, 2009 06:49

  Workers at T-Mobile UK have been selling customer data to brokers who work for the competition, T-Mobile and the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office said on Tuesday.

• UK hails first cybercrime cooperation with banks

  By Jeremy Kirk | 17 November, 2009 07:44

  U.K. police are hailing the sentencing of four people who used a sophisticated Trojan horse program to siphon money out of online bank accounts and send it to Eastern European countries and Russia.

• UK to push for law to retain all communications data

  By Jeremy Kirk | 10 November, 2009 07:51

  The U.K. government said Monday it plans to push for a law requiring service providers such as ISPs to retain data about instant messages, e-mail and other electronic communications.

• U.K. government looks to smart ticketing for transport

  By Jeremy Kirk | 21 August, 2009 21:10

  The U.K. aims to have a plan by the end of this year that lets people use their mobile phones or smart cards to pay for travel across England's public transport system.

• UK brothers sentenced for making fake credit, debit cards

  By Jeremy Kirk | 16 July, 2009 04:45

  Three brothers were sentenced to prison on Tuesday in a London court for creating counterfeit credit and debit cards, defrauding victims of more than £600,000 (US$978,000), according to the Metropolitan Police.