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Business Software Alliance Calls for New Cyber Security Legislation

Grant Gross writes on InfoWorld:

Members of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) have called on the U.S. Congress to pass legislation that would address new types of cybercrimes and increase funding for law enforcement.

Members of the BSA, a trade group based in Washington, D.C., on Monday asked Congress to pass the Cyber-Security Enhancement Act, which would expand the computer crimes statute in federal law to include the stealing of access codes or electronic identifiers from a computer. The bill would also make it a crime to access a computer without authorization, even if the access does not cause damage, and it would define a new crime of conspiracy to commit cybercrime.

posted by Fergie @ 10/15/2007 04:22:00 PM