Police forces skill-up to fight cyber crime

Danny Palmer
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Veracode reveals 3,800 police have enrolled in training programmes to become better at investigating cyber crime

UK police forces are taking action to improve officers' cyber crime-fighting skills, a freedom of information (FoI) request has revealed. According to figures obtained by web security firm Verac...

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