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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]
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]
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]
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]
Councils sack staff over misuse of DWP data
News Computer Weekly used Freedom of Information requests on councils to uncover information on the misuse of the CIS data. Local authorities have dismissed employees who viewed personal data on the Department for Work and Pensions' Customer Information...
[August 10, 2009, 12:05]
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]
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]
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]
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 get a life and catch some real crimanals
[February 24, 2006, 9:58]
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]
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 shut the f**k up u geeks
[September 16, 2005, 11:24]
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]
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]
Honeypot trap shows network misuse
News Holes in company networks are being exploited by hackers and fraudulent employees to store and distribute illegal pornography, media files and pirated software. A "honeypot" network set up purely to attract and monitor the level and type of hacking...
[September 26, 2003, 11:35]
Web Science, texting, and creative misuse
Blog You'd have thought that, having invented it, Tim Berners-Lee would know how the web worked. The Web Science project he wants to launch will study the World Wide Web, how it's working and what's being done with it.
[November 2, 2006, 12:00]
Protecting Web Applications from Attack and Misuse
White Papers The infrastructure that delivers web-based content and applications is known to be vulnerable to attack. Analysts estimate that 75% of all internet attacks target the web infrastructure - In 2005, the FBI reported a 90% increase in this type of...
[May 12, 2007, 1:00]
Hacking will cost world $1.6 trillion this year
News Malicious computer misuse such as hacking and virus writing will cost the world economy an astounding $1.6 (£1.05) trillion this year, according to a study released Monday. Incidents such as February's distributed denial of service attacks and May...
[July 11, 2000, 9:01]
