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MPs Look At Revising Computer Misuse Act
News The All-Party Internet Group (APIG) will be holding a public hearing into whether the Computer Misuse Act needs bringing up to date. The group will be holding a public hearing in the House of Commons on 29 April, when MPs will have a chance to...
[March 16, 2004, 16:15]
Cable Company Sacks Six For Email "misuse"
News Another six employees have lost their jobs for alleged "misuse" of email as Cable & Wireless confirmed Tuesday it has dismissed six people from its Birmingham office. Sacking employees for perceived misuse of email is nothing new.
[November 29, 2000, 15:13]
Information Systems Misuse - Threats & Countermeasures
White Papers The misuse of Information Systems by employees however poses serious challenges to organizations including loss of productivity, loss of revenue, legal liabilities and other workplace issues. This paper discusses some of the issues related to...
[October 29, 2004, 3:00]
Microsoft Webcast: Security Series (Part 2 Of 8): Protecting Data Against Misuse And Unauthorized Access (Level 200)
White Papers Protecting sensitive data in the network against misuse or unauthorized access is a huge challenge faced by many IT managers today. This webcast on security, Microsoft Strategic Security Advisors (SSAs) show the holistic Microsoft approach to data...
[October 5, 2007, 1:00]
Media Lobbying 'watered Down' Data-misuse Laws
News It will take another data scandal before tougher sentences are imposed for data misuse, according to the information commissioner. Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London on Tuesday, information commissioner Richard Thomas used his...
[April 23, 2008, 10:30]
A Preliminary Structural Approach To Insider Computer Misuse Incidents
White Papers Insider computer misuse information should be constantly and systematically collected and evaluated to track down insider perpetrators. To achieve this goal, a scheme is designed and created for insider computer misuse incidents.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
MPs Start Review Of Computer Misuse Act
News MPs will review the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) at the House of Commons on Thursday, because the law was created before the emergence of the Internet and needs to be updated. He suggests that the various laws should be combined: "None of the spam...
[April 29, 2004, 14:35]
MPs Urged To Overhaul Computer Misuse Act
News The Computer Misuse Act -- which became law many years before the Internet entered the mainstream -- is a failure and needs a major overhaul, according to some analysts. But the All Party Internet Group (APIG), which will publish the result of an...
[June 23, 2004, 14:25]
DEMIDS: A Misuse Detection System For Database Systems
White Papers This paper presents a misuse detection system called DEMIDS which is tailored to relational database systems. The profiles computed can be used to detect misuse behavior, in particular insider abuse. DEMIDS uses audit logs to derive profiles that...
[September 22, 2003, 4:25]
A Study In Using Neural Networks For Anomaly And Misuse Detection
White Papers The approach employs artificial neural networks (ANNs), and can be used for both anomaly detection in order to detect novel attacks and misuse detection in order to detect known attacks and even variations of known attacks.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Anonymous Data Broadcasting By Misuse Of Satellite ISPs
White Papers This paper discusses how to misuse satellite ISPs to allow any subscribed user to broadcast arbitrary content to a group of anonymous receivers. Satellite ISPs connect users to the Internet by means of satellite communication.
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
DTI: Businesses Should Curb Internet Misuse
News Internet misuse by staff affected a majority of large businesses in the last year, according to a government report, while even some small companies reported hundreds of email abuses per day. The Department of Industry's 2006 Information Security...
[March 27, 2006, 15:30]
It's Time For The Government Misuse Act
Leader While it is laudable that lawmakers have finally woken up to the threat posed by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and are attempting to amend the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) accordingly, their response can best be described as "too much...
[May 22, 2006, 15:45]
MPs Start Review Of Computer Misuse Act
Talkback If an organisation were to employ persons to hack into their own systems for the purpose of identifying security holes, or a company were contracted to carry out the same procedure on behalf of a company.with the intent of making that companies...
[May 4, 2004, 13:53]
It's Time For The Government Misuse Act
Talkback When will liability be introduced at levels that matters? Not as long as there's no realistic penalty for wrong decisions at levels that matters because until then what's there to learn from the mistakes of those that went before you?
[May 23, 2006, 22:35]
Computer Misuse Act Stands The Test Of Time
Talkback The guys at Half-Life Source were talking about this in their technology forum. Laws like cybercrime are mostly international and it should be an international law. This world is way behind the times.
[July 1, 2004, 16:34]
Computer Misuse Act Stands The Test Of Time
News Reforms to the Computer Misuse Act Recommendations relating to the CMA are as follows: Although the inquiry had as its focus the Computer Misuse Act, the report makes it clear that many of the weapons to combat current cybercrimes may lie outside...
[July 1, 2004, 16:00]
Employers Get Tough On Internet Misuse
News The survey, which was unveiled at the HR Software Show in London's Olympia conference centre on Thursday, revealed that 94 percent of companies have an official policy for Internet and email use and 60 percent of them have experienced problems...
[June 27, 2003, 7:33]
MPs Start Review Of Computer Misuse Act
Talkback shut the f**k up u geeks
[September 16, 2005, 11:24]
MPs Start Review Of Computer Misuse Act
Talkback get a life and catch some real crimanals
[February 24, 2006, 9:58]
