Search results for ‘cyber crime’
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How illegal drugs are bought and sold on the dark web
It is possible to buy hard drugs online and have them delivered to your door, a Channel 4 News investigation can reveal. So how can the police combat this illegal trade on the dark web?
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Children blackmailed by paedophiles over online sex acts
Hundreds of British children are being blackmailed into performing sex acts or harming themselves via webcam, by paedophiles who threaten to send images of the victim to their family.
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LulzSec hackers handed jail sentences
Three LulzSec members are sentenced to between 20 and 32 months for hacking offences. But from the beginning, the Lulzsec group stood in stark contrast to the secretive profiles of other hackers.
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Yahoo!’s email system hacked by criminal spammers
As the world’s third largest email provider recovers from a hack attack, Technology Producer Geoff White has the details of the scam and how Yahoo! users can protect themselves.
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Home secretary unveils ‘snooper’s charter’ to parliament
Despite vocal opposition, the Home Secretary Theresa May has unveiled plans to require records of internet use to be stored for a year to allow police and the security services to access them.
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Soca website offline after hacker attack
The Serious Organised Crime Agency website has temporarily been taken offline after a cyber attack by hackers.
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Cannabis growers siphoning electricty to grow potent weed
Cannabis farmers steal about £200m of electricity annually to grow illegal crops indoors – enough to power every home in Newcastle for a year.
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A love of guns, chemistry and Assange: LulzSec unmasked
Following the arrests of six alleged members of the LulzSec internet hacker collective, Channel 4 News scours their social media profiles and finds a love of weapons, chemistry and Julian Assange.
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Can autism be used as hacking defence?
Computer hacking and autism are increasingly mentioned in the same breath thanks to several high profile court cases but Channel 4 News asks if autism can really be used as a defence to online crime?
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Hackers claim interception of FBI and Met calls
The hacking collective Anonymous claims to have intercepted and published the details of a conference call between Scotland Yard and US intelligence agents.
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Acting up? Russian civil society at 20 years old
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has seen a vibrant civil society emerge, writes Human Rights Watch’s Caroll Bogert, former Newsweek Moscow bureau chief. But what does the future hold?
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Are the wheels coming off WikiLeaks?
With founder Julian Assange facing a rape trial in Sweden, funding crippled by a “financial blockade” and dwindling support from fellow hactivists, can WikiLeaks survive? Channel 4 News investigates.
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Teenager memorial website bully jailed
As a man who posted “vile and disgusting” messages on social networking sites memorialising dead teenagers is jailed, Channel 4 News asks two experts what motivates “trolls”.
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Two arrested in Anonymous hacking investigation
Two men are arrested as part of an investigation into the Anonymous and LulzSec hacking groups.
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Criminal underworld exposed on the ‘hidden internet’
Channel 4 News exposes the “hidden web”, a shady network of websites trading in illegal goods, including drugs and paedophile material, apparently beyond the grasp of the authorities.