Police

Literal crossed wires sent cops after innocent neighbors in child abuse case

Eight-year telco blunder had a profound impact on three wrongly accused in Wales

Networks17 Oct 2025 | 120

Police and military radio maker BK Technologies cops to cyber break-in

Florida comms outfit serving cops, firefighters, and the military says hackers pinched some employee data but insists its systems stayed online

Cyber-crime07 Oct 2025 | 2

UK police caught slacking off by jamming their keyboards while working from home

One officer was recorded pressing the 'I' key more than 16,000 times

Public Sector02 Oct 2025 | 50

Britain's policing minister punts facial recog nationwide

Met's Croydon cameras hailed as a triumph, guidance to be published later this year

Security30 Sep 2025 | 67

California cops confused after trying to give ticket to self-driving car

Don't tell Elon, he'd have Tesla's Robotaxis going ludicrous speed

Legal29 Sep 2025 | 59

'Technical debt' in police database built to respond to child murders causing a 'failing service'

Project rated at 'Red' risk as it struggles to move off obsolete Oracle tech and cloud transition stalls

Databases22 Sep 2025 | 8

Whitehall lobs £40M at 'critical' phase of police DB reboot

Officials say there's no time to switch suppliers if they want the PNC off life support before March 2026

Public Sector17 Sep 2025 | 12

Legacy tech blunts UK top cops' fight against serious crime, inspectors find

Report warns creaking infrastructure undermines the National Crime Agency's efficiency and effectiveness

Public Sector09 Sep 2025 | 15

US cuffs 475 at Hyundai–LG battery plant – feds tout largest single-site raid

South Korean government protests as workers left up s**t creek

Legal05 Sep 2025 | 141

Minority Report: Now with more spreadsheets and guesswork

Precogs replaced by profiling and postcode data... and 'AI'. What could wrong? Lots, say privacy campaigners

Databases16 Aug 2025 | 71

Broadband biz fined for emergency caller location data fail

Gigaclear slapped by watchdog for failings, admits 'seriousness of the error'

Networks30 Jul 2025 | 5

Sacramento cops scoured energy records to target suspected weed growers, and the EFF has sued

Raided homes despite known likelihood that aircon or EVs could explain high electricity consumption

Legal21 Jul 2025 | 31

British IT worker sentenced to seven months after trashing company network

Don't leave the door open to disgruntled workers

Cyber-crime30 Jun 2025 | 98

Texas warns 300,000 crash reports siphoned via compromised user account

Lone Star State drivers with accident records need to be careful about fraud

Cyber-crime10 Jun 2025 | 5

Waymo problems in La La Land as robotaxis set aflame

Video Services locked down in America's second-largest city

Bootnotes09 Jun 2025 | 79

Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage

Greater Manchester Police reprimanded over hours of video that went AWOL

Storage30 May 2025 | 21

Show us your face: New Orleans PD reportedly got secret facial recognition alerts

Police took Big Easy attitude to the rules, says WaPo

Legal19 May 2025 | 8

UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London

As if living in Croydon wasn't bad enough

Security27 Mar 2025 | 162

2 charged over alleged New IRA terrorism activity linked to cops' spilled data

Officer says mistakenly published police details were shared 'a considerable amount of times'

Security14 Feb 2025 | 21

All your 8Base are belong to us: Ransomware crew busted in global sting

updated Dark web site seized, four cuffed in Thailand

Cyber-crime10 Feb 2025 | 3

If Ransomware Inc was a company, its 2024 results would be a horror show

35% drop in payments across the year as your backups got better and law enforcement made a difference

CSO07 Feb 2025 | 2

2 officers bailed as anti-corruption unit probes data payouts to N Irish cops

Investigating compensation to police whose sensitive info was leaked in 2023

Security03 Feb 2025 | 19

LA deputies dogged by New Year date glitch in patrol car PCs

SoCal plod resort to paper logs after system that top brass was warned would 'inevitably fail' did exactly that

Bootnotes03 Jan 2025 | 61

London's Met Police seeks business services, ERP refresh in £370M deal

Contract could be worth a cool £1 billion if associated organizations join

Databases17 Dec 2024 | 9

American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy

Comment Do we really need to explain why this is a problem?

AI + ML12 Dec 2024 | 67

Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved

McDonald's worker called it in, cops swooped, found 'gun, suppressor, manifesto'

Security10 Dec 2024 | 128

Eurocops take down 'secure' criminal chat system known as Matrix

Updated They took the red pill

Cyber-crime04 Dec 2024 | 44

Smile! UK cops spend tens of millions on live facial recognition tech

Labour government keen, though critics paint it as a severe threat to privacy

Software25 Nov 2024 | 71

The hunt is on for the scum who stole Britain's largest inflatable planetarium

Have you seen this dome? It's full of stars

Science02 Nov 2024 | 68

California cops cuff suspect in deadly drone-assisted drug deal

‘Crany’ also captured with three 'ghost guns'

Offbeat19 Oct 2024 | 35

Dutch cops reveal takedown of 'world's largest dark web market'

Two arrested after allegedly trying to make off with their ill-gotten gains

Security10 Oct 2024 | 15

Cops love facial recognition, and withholding info on its use from the courts

Withholding exculpatory evidence from suspects isn't a great look when the tech is already questionable

Security07 Oct 2024 | 23

Northern Ireland cops whose info was leaked in 2023 may get £240M+ damages

Officers put in danger when republican dissidents grabbed hold of their names and details

Legal25 Sep 2024 | 2

Tor insists its network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin

Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor

Cyber-crime19 Sep 2024 | 25

California upgrade company aims militarized 'Tactical' Cybertruck at police forces

Criminals expected to counter Tesla truck with water guns and driving offroad

Offbeat07 Jun 2024 | 79

Euro cops disrupt malware droppers, seize thousands of domains

Operation Endgame just beginning: 'Stay tuned,' says Europol

Malware Month30 May 2024 |

UK data watchdog wants six figures from N Ireland cops after 2023 data leak

Massive discount applied to save cop shop’s helicopter budget

Security23 May 2024 | 15

Can I phone a friend? How cops circumvent face recognition bans

Updated Just ask a pal in a neighboring town with laxer restrictions

Security20 May 2024 | 9

Cops developing Ghostbusters-esque weapon to take out e-bike thugs

'Who you gonna call?' Dunno, my phone's been stolen

Bootnotes14 May 2024 | 68

Prolific phishing-made-easy emporium LabHost knocked offline in cyber-cop op

Feature Police emit Spotify Wrapped-style videos to let crims know they're being hunted

Security18 Apr 2024 | 13

Cop shop rapped for 'completely avoidable' web form blunder

Made public highly sensitive data on complaints about Metropolitan Police Service

Security15 Mar 2024 | 14

Cops turn LockBit ransomware gang's countdown timers against them

Authorities dismantle cybercrime royalty by making mockery of their leak site

Cyber-crime20 Feb 2024 | 17

Waymo services driverless car software after Phoenix truck collision

Alphabet owned autonomous vehicle biz files voluntary recall report

AI + ML14 Feb 2024 | 11

UK lawmakers say live facial recognition lacks a legal basis

Lords warn Home Secretary there is nothing to regulate wider trawl of large populations

Public Sector30 Jan 2024 | 32

DEA nabs $150M from dark web drug lord based... in Coventry

Plus: Dodgy ex-US official also sentenced for software and database theft in big day for the courts

Legal29 Jan 2024 | 15

EFF adds Street Surveillance Hub so Americans can check who's checking on them

'The federal government has almost entirely abdicated its responsibility'

Security22 Jan 2024 | 2

Secret multimillion-dollar cryptojacker snared by Ukrainian police

Criminal scored $2M in crypto proceeds but ends up in ‘cuffs following property raid

Cyber-crime12 Jan 2024 | 8

Motorola loses appeal to kill price cap on UK Airwave emergency services contract

Tribunal nixes appeal from provider of network that cops and firefighters can't seem to migrate from...

Personal Tech09 Jan 2024 | 16

Manchester's finest drowning in paperwork as Freedom of Information requests pile up

Updated Enforcement notice issued months after data regulator schooled police force

Security20 Dec 2023 | 30

Northern Ireland cops count human cost of August data breach

Officers potentially targeted by dissidents can't afford to relocate for their safety, while others seek support to change their names

Security12 Dec 2023 | 16

Interpol makes first border arrest using Biometric Hub to ID suspect

Global database of faces and fingerprints proves its worth

Cyber-crime01 Dec 2023 | 7

Ex-GCHQ software dev jailed for stabbing NSA staffer

Terrorist ideology suspected to be motivation

Security03 Nov 2023 | 41

UK policing minister urges doubling down on face-scanning tech

'No question' it will solve more crimes, Tory MP claims

Security31 Oct 2023 | 48

Irish cops data debacle exposes half a million motorist records

Details of civilians and Garda officers were included, as well as high-res scans of identity documents

Security24 Oct 2023 | 9

Europol knocks RagnarLocker offline in second major ransomware bust this year

Group will be remembered as staunch negotiator and a bullier of critical infrastructure orgs

Cyber-crime19 Oct 2023 |

San Francisco mayor suggests police drones and CCTV can cure city's crime woes

Suggests bodycam footage should replace paperwork for simple arrests

Security19 Oct 2023 | 30