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Crime in Focus

Crime mapping has become part of an official UK Government 'pledge'. This should provide the public, press and politicians with important insights into the crime profile of their neighbourhood. Crime mapping will also be an important channel through which to broadcast and exemplify law enforcement successes. However, there are a...

Tags: Crime

White papers 2009-08-24

SpotCrime London 1.01 (Mobile)

SpotCrime London is the iPhone application for SpotCrime.com. SpotCrime will display recent crime activity around your current location. Crime incidents are displayed with icons representing different types of crimes including shooting, robbery, assault, theft, burglary, arson and vandalism. Users can identify high crime areas in the areas they are traveling,...

Tags: Crime, Apple iPhone, Mobile, Popvox LLC, SpotCrime London, Crime Incident, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-20

Crime In Focus : A paper examining pitfalls in public crime mapping

In July 2008, UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith pledged that interactive maps, which allow every neighbourhood in England and Wales to access local crime information, were to be put in place by every police force in the land by the end of the year. This was...

Tags: Crime, Pitney Bowes Inc., Leadership, Management

White papers 2009-08-18

Clue - Accusations and Alibis (Windows)

Clue Accusations and Alibis is a brilliant blend of hidden object gameplay and clue fun. The invitation said that you are to arrive at this elegant Hollywood mansion for a special dinner. But it turns out the table is set for murder. Now it's up to you to crack the...

Tags: Crime, GameHouse, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-06-18

Can the smartphone beat down violent crime?

Know how to beat small time violent crime? Organize a counter mob - and can the smart phone help? You bet! just get government out of the way and it will happen. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Crime, Phone, Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-01-22

Masters of Mystery: Crime of Fashion demo (Windows)

The New York fashion world is turned upside down when Detective Carrie Chase discovers that a famous fashion designer has been murdered. She soon comes to the frightening realization that a serial killer is at large with an eye for design and a thirst for murder. Masters of Mystery: Crime...

Tags: Crime, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-01-12

NYPD recruit victims of crime, to fight crime

I think it's fair to say, many will agree with me, that some law enforcement agencies, departments and organisations are a mere haemorrhoid, dangling from the arse of our societies. Strong statement indeed, but what can be done about it? Policy shift, cabinet change, elect a new leader, revolution? ...

Tags: Crime, Corporate Communications, Identity Theft, Homeland Security, Marketing, Security, Government, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-04

US Government leadership in cyber security lacking

I see that the US assistant secretary of the national cyber-security division of the Homeland Security Department addressed the New York City Metro InfraGard. His remarks are disturbing to me because the reflect a growing (continuing?) cluelessness within the US government on cyber security matters. ...

Tags: Crime, Leadership, Cyber Security, U.S. Government, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2007-12-12

How organized crime is profiting from the Internet

Cybercrime is no longer in its infancy. It is now big business. Organized crime is capitalizing on every opportunity to exploit new technology to perform classic crimes such as fraud and extortion to make money illegally. The threat of cybercrime to businesses continues to increase at a staggering rate. This...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Crime, Cybercrime, Internet

White papers 2006-12-01

Secret Agent: Europe 1.3 (Mac)

Secret Agent Europe is a crime solving game in which the player travels around Europe following trivia based clues in order to catch up with crooks. Visit 49 cities in 39 different countries Fact file packed with concise, easy to understand information Download extra crimes from the...

Tags: Crime, Apple Macintosh, Agent, Real Estate, Internet, Business Operations

Software downloads 2005-06-29

Kingpin: Life of Crime Final Crime mod (Windows)

This mod was created as an unofficial sequel to Kingpin: Life of Crime. The mod picks up where the original game ended, taking you through various levels to eventually face Blunt, the boss that escaped in Life of Crime.

Tags: Crime, Microsoft Windows, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2004-08-04

International Crime Syndicate (Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix) 2.0 (Windows)

This action-packed mod lets you join a well armed, high tech crime syndicate. I.C.S. is a must-have mod for Soldier Of Fortune II, with all new commercial quality content and improvements. Not only a mod, I.C.S. is a better way to play and enjoy SOF2. ICS enhances the familiar SOF...

Tags: Crime, Microsoft Windows, ICS Team, I.C.S., ICS, International Crime Syndicate, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2003-12-16

The Crime Files 1.5 (Windows)

The Crime Files is an ebook that will help teach you and your family safety and crime prevention tips. Some of the areas covered are: protecting yourself online, making your home safe, what to do if you are a victim of crime. Car theft, fraud, schemes and scams.

Tags: Crime, HBrio.com, Crime Files, E-books, Microsoft Windows, Litigation, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations

Software downloads 2002-02-14

e-Crime: the Vladimir Levin Episode

The sentencing of Vladimir Levin on 24 February 1998 brought to a conclusion the most high profile case of cyber crime to date. The saga - which almost resembles a Hollywood blockbuster - began in July 1994 when customers complained of $400,000 mysteriously "disappearing" from two Citibank accounts. This article...

Tags: Crime, Episode, Proximal

White papers

Money Laundering & Organized Crime: An Overview

This white paper provides an insight into the relationship between money laundering and organized crime. The area in which organized crime is most recognizable is money laundering. A United Nations report concluded that money laundering is the tenth largest global economic activity - and reliable estimates attribute 4% of the...

Tags: Crime, Money, Proximal, Entrepreneurship, Management

White papers

Cyber Crimes and Your Children

As recently as September, 2003, a teenager was arrested for creating a devastating computer virus. How did he learn to do this? A simple Internet search will reveal all the tools necessary to create viruses and hack into others' computers. Hacking can take a variety of forms, ranging from stealing...

Tags: Crime, Hacking, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms

White papers

Lima Neighborhood Reduces Crime 30 Percent With Cost-Effective Public Safety System

In the late 1990s, Miraflores was experiencing an increasing amount of crime at all levels. The citizens of this affluent metropolitan district of Lima, Peru, had had enough - and looked to their mayor to do something. The mayor opted to create a new crime-reporting system based on Voxiva CitizenNet,...

Tags: Crime, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Service Management, Business Services, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Case studies

Additional Resources

iHacked: jailbroken iPhones compromised, $5 ransom demanded

... WHAT?Who in their right mind keep a server running with default usernames/passwords on the default port....I doubt that jailbroken iPhones are alone in this. It's possible, specially if iPhones have a ssh server running, that this could happen on non-jailbroken iPhones also.Just one question...Has this person been remanded yet?...

Tags: Smart phones, extortion, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

New LoroBot ransomware encrypts files, demands $100 for decryption

You forgot to mention....which OSs it affects! Or is it based on something multi-platform like Java?Look at the bigger size version of the screenshot, it's all in thereA lot of russian characters and...YES, you guessed it right, the word "windows" prominently displayed in red in the title.Who would ever thought...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, LoroBot, decryption, malware

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

UK newspaper Web site hacked; 500,000 job-seekers affected

In what is being described as a "deliberate and sophisticated crime," the Guardian newspaper in the U.K. says the careers section of its Web site was hacked. by Ryan Naraine

Tags: Newspaper, Web, U.K., Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Professional Development, Internet, Marketing, Career, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-10-26