Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Firms fear lack of e-crime action after police merger / Computer Weekly, 18 Apr 2006

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Bill Goodwin
"Businesses and security professionals have warned that the merger of the UK's National High-Tech Crime Unit into a new FBI-style organisation could leave a large gap in the policing of technology-related crime. The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), which began operations on 1 April, will investigate computer crime as well as trying to disrupt organised crime, particularly in the areas of drugs and illegal immigration. But security professionals are concerned that Soca's creation could leave a dearth of police resources to fight day-to-day computer crime, such as hacking and denial of service attacks."