Spending watchdog blames British Home Office for delays to £1bn crime-fighting IT system Department says it's prepared to run ailing Police National Computer out of support if it has to Databases13 Sep 2021 | 11
LA cops told to harvest social media handles from people they stop, suspect or not Policies revealed after long battle for transparency and accountability Security09 Sep 2021 | 109
Academics tell UK lords that folk aren't keen on predictive policing, facial recognition, heightened surveillance Philip K Dick is rolling in his grave AI + ML07 Sep 2021 | 21
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested Cops can read the SMTP spec too, y'know Security07 Sep 2021 | 115
Peers question experts over UK police use of AI, facial recognition tech Academics, senior officers sat at uncomfortable table and asked 'what's going on 'ere, then?' AI + ML21 Jul 2021 | 12
Australian geoboffins have zoomed in and enhanced CSI-style soil analysis: Bung it in a machine, find the crime scene New approach could lead to a system for geolocating dirt samples Science07 Jul 2021 | 6
What's this about a lawyer looking for an heir? City of London Police seek IT crew to help crack down on fraud Contract worth £75m over seven years Security05 Jul 2021 | 6
Doggy DNA database adopted by Gloucestershire cops to bring crims to heel Pet parents asked to fork over £75 for the privilege, though Databases24 Jun 2021 | 36
UK spends £36m on 18 little 'bullet-proof' boats to protect Royal Navy assets Like the massive ships with miniguns Offbeat16 Jun 2021 | 83
Cuffed: Ukraine police collar six Clop ransomware gang suspects in joint raids with South Korean cops Cobalt Strike and Flawedammyy RAT named as favoured tools Security16 Jun 2021 | 11
Belgian police seize 28 tons of cocaine after 'cracking' Sky ECC's chat app encryption Euro cops take $1.65bn of blow off the streets after poring over messages Security08 Apr 2021 | 84
UK to introduce new laws and a code of practice for police wanting to rifle through mobile phone messages But there's a lot more to worry about in new Bill, say campaigners Security11 Mar 2021 | 30
Brit cybercops issue tender to rip and replace their formerly flaw-ridden CyberAlarm tool Updated Plus: Where did their original logo come from? Security10 Mar 2021 | 11
Minister tells the House of Lords it'll be another 12 weeks before UK's deleted criminal records can be restored 99.5% were from before 2011 – so that's OK Storage09 Feb 2021 | 39
Cor, get a load of moneybags Northamptonshire: Eight resellers win places on £5bn police framework Before you choke on your tea, authority likely won't splash anything near that On-Prem14 Jan 2021 | 2
Channel Isles cop sacked after abusing police database to track down women drivers for Instagram 'comic' page Community service for creepy constable Security07 Dec 2020 | 48
Sopra Steria gets £££££££s to manage cops' Oracle e-Biz suite in Oracle's cloud in Cleveland, UK The bad guys looking after the good guys... or is that the other way round? Life's so complicated SaaS12 Nov 2020 | 1
Thought the FBI were the only ones able to unlock encrypted phones? Pretty much every US cop can get the job done Massive public records request reveals scale of warrantless surveillance Security21 Oct 2020 | 150
Here's US Homeland Security collaring a suspected arsonist after asking Google for the IP addresses of folks who made a specific search Don't worry, says the internet giant, this doesn't happen too often Security09 Oct 2020 | 71
Disgraced cop, 55, spared prison term after admitting he abused police systems to snoop on his girlfriend's ex 120 hours' community service and suspended sentence for computer misuse and data protection crimes Security07 Oct 2020 | 36
Was he sent on a spool's errand or something? Library staffer accused of stealing, reselling $1.3m of printer toner Cops charge suspect with theft as audit claims this gear definitely wasn't on loan Personal Tech06 Oct 2020 | 32
Woman dies after hospital is unable to treat her during crippling ransomware infection, cops launch probe Extortionware is bad but it never killed anyo... never mind Security18 Sep 2020 | 107
Oh cool, more Cisco patches to apply. Happy Monday In Brief Meanwhile, KDE desktops can be pwned by evil archives OSes03 Aug 2020 |
Step on it, I've got the police on my hack: Anon swipes, leaks online 269GB of crime intel docs from cops, Feds 'BlueLeaks' data lifted after web host biz pwned, we're told Security22 Jun 2020 | 18
Hey NYPD, when you're done tear-gassing and running over protesters, can you tell us about your spy gear? City council demands snoop gear kit reports, mayor OK with that Security19 Jun 2020 | 81
Police and NHS urge British public not to call 101 and 111 non-emergency numbers after behind-the-scenes kit failure Vodafone responsible for maintaining system infrastructure Networks19 Jun 2020 | 16
As Uncle Sam flies spy drones over protest-packed cities, Homeland Security asks the public if that's a good idea Because nothing says freedom like a Predator circling overhead Security11 Jun 2020 | 70
Scottish cops dangle £6m for help understanding 160TB treasure trove of structured and unstructured data Improved metadata management and easier compliance also required Software10 Jun 2020 | 27
As anti-brutality protests fill streets of American cities, netizens cram police app with K-Pop, airwaves with NWA And, oh look, Anonymous returns. Completely forgot all about them Personal Tech01 Jun 2020 | 121
Cheshire Police celebrates three-year migration to Oracle Fusion by lobbing out tender for system to replace it... one year later Updated Fighting crimes in between upgrading databases Software30 Apr 2020 | 26
UK's Cleveland Police: We want to fling our HR wares into the cloud. Oh, and IT can move back in Outsourcing deal with Sopra Steria ending, and good times ahead for in-sourced tech crew propping up crumbly software On-Prem21 Apr 2020 | 4
Police drone fliers' wings clipped to prevent them bumping into real aircraft The Civil Aviation Authority giveth the CAA and taketh away Edge + IoT20 Apr 2020 | 19
Watch out, everyone, here come the Coronavirus Cops, enjoying their little slice of power way too much Comment Brit cops turn to drones, now mobile tools to make everyone’s lives a misery Bootnotes09 Apr 2020 | 348
Online face mask sales scams, 400% uptick of coronavirus phishing reports: Brit cops' workload shifts online along with the nation's Criminal scum use pandemic as golden business opportunity Security20 Mar 2020 | 24
Remember those infosec fellas who were cuffed while testing the physical security of a courthouse? The burglary charges have been dropped And it only took, er, four and a half months for people to see sense Security31 Jan 2020 | 41
If only 3 in 100,000 cyber-crimes are prosecuted, why not train cops to bring these crooks to justice once and for all, suggests think-tank veep Enigma 'We are focusing on defending systems over identifying and pursuing the person behind the cyber-crime' Security30 Jan 2020 | 43
Unlocking news: We decrypt those cryptic headlines about Scottish cops bypassing smartphone encryption Vid New perspective on FBI, Interpol demands for backdoors Security17 Jan 2020 | 133
Beset by lawsuits over poor security protections, Ring rolls out 'privacy dashboard' for its creepy surveillance cams, immediately takes heat CES Platform makeover declared a 'total joke' by internet activists Edge + IoT07 Jan 2020 | 43
UK cops lost nearly twice as much of their own tech kit this year, says thinktank Brummy bobbies particularly careless, apparently Personal Tech20 Dec 2019 | 20
It's 2019 so, of course, this Wells Fargo employee accused of stealing customer cash posed with wads of dosh on Instagram, Facebook Feds are not amused Security16 Dec 2019 | 38
237 UK police force staff punished for misusing IT systems in last 2 years Updated Snooping workers blamed for bunch of data breaches Legal11 Nov 2019 | 53
Communication, communication – and politics: Iowa saga of cuffed infosec pros reveals pentest pitfalls Analysis Tales from the coal face as experts reflect on what can possibly go wrong on the job Security07 Nov 2019 | 23
Antivirus hid more than 9,000 'cybercrime' reports from UK cops, says watchdog Detailed info wound up in quarantine Security24 Oct 2019 | 9
Hundreds charged in internet's biggest child-abuse swap-shop site bust: IP addy leak led cops to sys-op's home 23 kids saved, alleged scumbag-in-chief already in jail Security16 Oct 2019 | 79
UK cops blasted over 'disproportionate' slurp of years of data from crime victims' phones Report claims forces trawl through data 'indiscriminately' Science23 Jul 2019 | 64
Metropolitan Police's facial recognition tech not only crap, but also of dubious legality – report Just 8 out of 42 matches correct, say uni researchers Legal04 Jul 2019 | 128
Facebook staff sarin for a bad day: Suspected chemical weapon parcel sent to Silicon Valley HQ Updated Package triggered test equipment, buildings evacuated, no one exposed Security01 Jul 2019 | 31
UK police want to Airwave hello to some more mobile devices – survey Long delayed Emergency Services Network probably not helping Legal25 Jun 2019 | 19
Hey criminals, need a getaway vehicle? There's an app for that... Car share tool halts ops amid crime wave, arrests You wouldn't download a car – oh actually... Applications18 Apr 2019 | 32
Capita bags £13.2m Police Scotland deal for crime-snooping tech Picking up slack from doomed Accenture IT contract i6 Security04 Apr 2019 | 14
Cop watchers to probe UK police sharing data on witnesses' migration status with Home Office Handing over info on migration status deters crime reports, say rights groups Legal29 Mar 2019 | 12
Cops told live facial recog needs oversight, rigorous trial design, protections against bias How about only using face-scan tech if it, er, actually works, is the only option, eh? Science27 Feb 2019 | 25
British cops told to scrap 'discriminatory' algorithms in policing Predictive plod practices bake bias into systems people don't understand, says Liberty Science05 Feb 2019 | 45
Facebooker swatted, Kaspersky snares an NSA thief, NASA server exposed, and more Roundup Plus, Vita boot ROM caper, TCL caught slinging Android malware, etc Security12 Jan 2019 | 24
Bloke fined £460 after his drone screwed up police chopper search for missing woman First UK conviction for reckless UAV flying Science16 Nov 2018 | 83
Skimming cash off UK police budget for tech projects probably not the best idea, say MPs Particularly when those projects overrun and overspend Legal09 Nov 2018 | 6
Concerns over cops' crap computer kit: UK MPs call for cash, capacity, command Report slams digital policing and Home Office's leadership Legal31 Oct 2018 | 22
UK cops run machine learning trials on live police operations. Unregulated. What could go wrong? – report RUSI: How about some codes of practice, transparency, for starters? Science21 Sep 2018 | 34
Voting machine maker vows to step up security, Fortnite bribes players to do 2FA – and more Roundup Plus: Feds break up another 'dark-net drugs op' Security27 Aug 2018 | 18
Scot.gov wins pals with pledge not to keep hold of innocents' mugshots and biometric data So why can't UK.gov do the same? – campaigners Security22 Aug 2018 | 17
'Oh sh..' – the moment an infosec bod realized he was tracking a cop car's movements by its leaky cellular gateway Black Hat Internet boxes blab coordinates on login pages Security18 Aug 2018 | 86
Rights groups challenge UK cops over refusal to hand over info on IMSI catchers Activists sick of 'neither confirm nor deny' excuse Security07 Aug 2018 | 46