UK the 'number 1 target' of online gangsters in 25 countries - e-crime report

snoopy · Jul 30, 2013

UK the 'number 1 target' of online gangsters in 25 countries - e-crime report

Cyber crime: It's like 'NUCLEAR WAR'...

By John Leyden, 30th July 2013
The UK is failing to win the war on "e-crime", according to MPs on the Home Affairs committee in its first ever report on online crime.

The committee published its "Report on e-crime" on Tuesday following hearings over 10 months, where the MPs heard from senior police officers as well as experts from academia, banks and the IT security business.

The committee appeared keen for banks, ISPs, search engines, social media sites and many other web-based businesses to start taking action against criminals operating online. The committee has advised that these companies apply filters, sort through content and report online crime to the police, among other things
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The comittee has also revived calls for a dedicated child exploitation prevention unit, an ISP code of conduct and an "IWF for terrorism"
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In the report, the MPs criticised banks for "simply reimbursing the victims with no pursuit of the perpetrators" for cases involving low-level credit card or electronic banking fraud. "Banks must be required to report all e-crime fraud to law enforcement," it said.
Treat e-criminals like, er, criminals

The Committee called for the establishments of a "dedicated state of the art espionage response team" (the Mission Impossible squad, perhaps) to handle reports of suspected cyber-espionage from British companies, media, and institutions.
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More detail here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/30/ecrime_report_home_affairs_cmte/

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