Warning over anti-virus cold calls to UK internet users

Organised crime now runs call centres. Don't buy anything on the telephone!

Al Qaeda's "Sword of Justice" and the coming war of attrition with the west

Cheerful thoughts for a Friday afternoon. What al Qaeda's head of operations in the West may be planning for us all.

CFTC eyes new powers to police algorithmic trading

This was the article that started me off. Who is seeking powers to police the software used to analyse crime-related databases?

That would be nobody, wouldnt it? Organised crime is nasty, so things to defeat it dont need policing...right?

One for the geeks

This is an insight into what I really need to know to start writing the definitive article on "the computer in the dock"

When does a rogue become a scoundrel?

More on algorithms running riot unsupervised...

Stock Exchanges at risk from rogue trading algorithms?

Ive submitted something to the Newsletter on the computer in the dock and thought I had pasted these stories earlier. Since I couldnt find them when I was rewriting it, I'm reposting. I keep thinking Ive posted stories lately when I appear to have failed...Alzheimer's or external intervention? Yeah, I know. Its incompetence!
Anyway, the Stock Market fined Credit Suisse for failing to control its trading algorith recently. Now Ive been burbling about databases and software for the last 10 years, but no-one ever listens. Algorithms have a life of their own...and the innocent have lots to fear!

Drug gang leaders held following Garda "super raid"

Article from the Irish Times gives some detail on biggest organised crime groups in Ireland.

Devon company director jailed over £1 million in car

£380,000 of the money linked to the £53 million Securitas robbery in Kent, February 2006.

The benefits of popping into the pub and picking up the local paper! I wouldnt have spotted this otherwise.

Al qaida and the fragmented global islamic militancy

Thoughtful piece, reminding us once again that "terrorism" is not a Weberian bureaucratic pyramid. Put it on the wall, PhD students!

Nuclear Bomb Material found for sale on Georgian Black market

18 grams offered by two Armenians with promise of more to follow. Sting operation netted it. The world will sleep uneasily tonight...