UK: Home Office Admits Delays Over Criminalisation of DoS Attacks
Richard Thurston writes on SC Magazine Online:
The criminalisation of denial of service attacks is to be delayed by six months, the Home Office has revealed.More here.
Measures to criminalise DoS attacks have been lying unused in existing laws since November 2006, and had been due to be activated this Spring. But that now won't happen until October, the Home Office said today in a statement.
"The Government intends to implement the changes to the Computer Misuse Act 1990, as set out in the Police and Justice Act 2006 and subsequently further amended in the Serious Crime Act 2007, in October 2008," read the statement. "The Government intends to bring all of the changes in together."
The changes will formally criminalise DoS attacks. Though they are technically already illegal, there have been recent cases where hackers have escaped punishment.
posted by Fergie @ 5/13/2008 01:50:00 PM
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