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Legal protection for ethical hacking under Computer Misuse Act is only the first step
I'm dreaming of a white hat mass Opinion It was 40 years ago that four young British hackers set about changing the law, ...
Some city employees spent hours on porn sites, while others e-mailed ethnic jokes or racist photos. For others, the offense was forwarding religious inspirational e-mails to colleagues. For the city, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In many regards, 2025 proved to be a relatively normal year for the cyber security world as threat actors and security pros continued their long-running cat-and-mouse game, but it was also a stand-out ...
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