UK: Denial of Service to be Criminalized by Autumn 2006

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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.

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http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=6569

- ferg

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"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/


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