Cyber Crime Bureau

During Cork operation a 40-year-old man and 42-year-old woman arrested

Disability services provider notifies Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) of attack

All State agencies must finance digital systems and security expertise needed to deal with cyber threats

HSE still monitoring dark web and elsewhere but no sign data used for ‘criminal purposes’

Operation led by Garda believed to have prevented more than 750 ransomware hacks

Lack of strategic workforce plan affecting specialist investigative units, report says

Gardaí warn fraudsters may contact public asking for money to secure hospital care

Publication of data on darknet as threatened by gang appears inevitable, gardaí say

Gardaí caution against assuming link between HSE cyberattack and call to Tipperary patient

Tackling criminals’ use of technology is ‘an international effort’, Garda says

Garda’s internal 24-hour helpline sees highest increase in calls last year

Brendan Doolin (38) faces allegations of online harassment of four women

Irish offices were raided as part of an international fraud investigation

Electronic decryption and methods will benefit Garda hugely

‘First responder’ gardaí will be trained to identify and seize digital evidence

Six per cent of images depict torture or bestiality

Forensic analysis of encrypted and damaged devices stymied by scientific limitations

Evidence suggests unsafe horse meat has illegally been exported for consumption

The main players in one of the closest-watched trials of 2019

Hold up in analysing parents’ computer means their children may be taken into care

Murder accused told social worker Tipperary woman ‘fixated’ on her new relationship

Search took place in December 2012, 18 months after Bobby Ryan went missing

The information could lead to the arrest of those involved in attacks on State websites

Information from social media companies led to 20% of the searches

Padraig O’Morain: Text without images and a child who doesn’t exist

Court told girl in images suffered internal damage and will not be able to have children

Philip Devereux given 2½ year suspended term as judge says quantity of images ‘not too great’

Young man from ‘extraordinarily good family’ first accessed child porn at 16

44 members of the force completed post-graduate certificate

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