For the next two weeks Cumbria Police will be warning people in Cumbria of the risks associated with going online – such as fraud and blackmail.

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/cumbria-police-launch-online-fraud-awareness-campaign-1.1078376 http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/cumbria-police-launch-online-fraud-awareness-campaign-1.1078376

Two men have been arrested for launching a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack on a Manchester-based company's website in an attempted blackmail. 

https://www.getsafeonline.org/news/arrests-after-attack-on-website/

If you are a small business or a consumer and your network is wide open, anyone can connect to your network.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/crime-courts/cyber-fraud-risks-over-unsecured-wifi.21877071

There were 35,831 phishing attacks launched around the world in June, according to RSA Security's latest report. The general outlook seems positive; after peaking at almost 60,000 attacks in July 2012, the total has steadily fallen to a 31% decline year-on-year. 

http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/media-network-blog/2013/aug/16/phishing-fraud-security-2012-13-infographic

Following the publication of the Home Affairs Select Committee report on E-crime an article by The Times’ columnist Matthew Parris appeared in the paper questioning the police response.

http://www.noodls.com/view/FA736F5F9CB920F9AFC04F911A14E1E1C74337CB

"This is the first actual commercial Trojan we've seen in a while, since Citadel was taken off the market. We haven't seen anything serious enough on the part of malware developers," says Limor Kessem, cybercrime specialist with RSA.

http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability/next-big-banking-trojan-spotted-in-cyber/240158792?goback=%2Egde_83088_member_262866084

Rt Hon Keith Vaz MP said: “We are not winning the war on online criminal activity. We are being too complacent about these E-wars because the victims are hidden in cyberspace. The threat of a cyber attack to the UK is so serious it is marked as a higher threat than a nuclear attack”. 

http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/home-affairs-committee/news/130729-e-crime-rpt-published/

A report claims Blighty is failing to protect its people from e-crime.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2285740/cyber-crime-is-a-bigger-threat-than-nuclear-war-uk-government-warns

Criminals defrauding people of small amounts of money are often not reported and banks reimburse victims without the crimes ever appearing on official statistics. 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/uk-faces-falling-into-cybercrime-black-hole-if-banks-keep-quiet-on-small-scale-fraud-warn-mps-8737343.html

The UK must do more to stop online fraud and deter state-sponsored cyber-espionage or risk losing the fight against e-crime. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23495121