UK: Denial of Service to be Criminalized by Autumn 2006
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.
posted by Fergie @ 1/26/2006 10:06:00 AM
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