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UK: Denial of Service to be Criminalized by Autumn 2006
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:11:14 GMT
Via OUT-LAW.com. [snip] Launching a Denial of Service attack in the UK is set to become a new offence within the year. The Government included updates to the country's main cybercrime law with new offences and stiffer penalties in its Police and Justice Bill, introduced yesterday. The Computer Misuse Act is now 15 years old and legal experts have long questioned whether it adequately outlaws Denial of Service attacks. This is an attack in which a web or email server is deliberately flooded with information to the point of collapse. But when a court cleared a teenager last November on charges of sending five million emails to his former employer, because the judge decided that no offence had been committed under the Act, the need for amendment became obvious. [snip] http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=6569 - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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