Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan Howe admits that the UK police are still “skimming the surface” when it comes to tackling cyber-crime, a view that is shared by security experts. In an interview hosted by Sky News earlier this week, and with questions coming in from children’s newspaper First News, Hogan Howe detailed how the police have recruited hundreds of extra officers to fight online crime such as child abuse images, despite the organisation facing continued budget cuts. “I think we’re only skimming the surface,” he said of the Met Police’s efforts with cyber-crime so far. “A lot of it is about stealing money and scamming, sometimes it’s about stealing an idea from a business.” He said that the Met had created a squad of about 300 officers to deal with cyber-crime cases, adding that it would look to add another 200 in the next year. And citing the number of indecent images of children online, he admitted that police resources were continually being stretched. “When there are hundreds of thousands of horrible images of children online and we’re trying to track down all these people, it has proved a logistical problem. “It’s incredibly important but there are other important […]
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