The CMA still governs UK cyber crime while inadvertently criminalising legitimate cyber security research, including critical ...

Uganda’s controversial Computer Misuse (Amendment) Bill 2022, which rights groups say will likely be used to silence dissenting voices online, has come into force after the country’s President Yoweri ...

Cyber security experts and professionals are broadly aligned on questions of legitimacy and legality when it comes to some instances of unauthorised access to IT systems, according to a report ...

Kenya has enacted the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes (Amendment) Act 2025, which was signed into law by President William Ruto on Wednesday, October 15, 2024. The law, effective from November 4, 2025 ...

Baltimore County Inspector General Kelly Madigan has released a report revealing computer misuse by multiple employees. The report details that between April 2021 and February 2024, the OIG issued six ...

Some in the UK security industry are calling for an update to the CMA to allow them to conduct security research without threat of prosecution. The Computer Misuse Act (CMA) 1990 defines what ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A few years ago, Bay Area federal prosecutors took up a white-collar case that wasn’t particularly sexy, indicting a handful of employees of an executive recruiting firm who had tapped ...

MPs will review the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) at the House of Commons on Thursday, because the law was created before the emergence of the Internet and needs to be updated. The All-Party Internet ...

The All-Party Internet Group (APIG) will be holding a public hearing into whether the Computer Misuse Act needs bringing up to date. The APIG is an organisation that attempts to bridge the gap between ...

The Computer Misuse Act turns 30 next year, with some in the industry calling for revisions to be made to bring it up to speed with modern security research practices. However, as Dan Raywood finds ...