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Is this the largest security breach ever?
News C is for CMA About 14 per cent of the breaches were due to hacking, the report said. In a statement Heartland said the breach occurred last year but that it found evidence of the intrusion last week and... [21 Jan 2009]
Will Nasa hacker be prosecuted in UK?
News On 23 December Todner sent a letter to the director of public prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer to say McKinnon would plead guilty if tried in the UK under the Computer Misuse Act (CMA). Todner told ZDNet UK last week that... [16 Jan 2009]
Nasa hacker says will plead guilty in UK
News His solicitor, Karen Todner, sent a letter to Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions (DPP), to say McKinnon would plead guilty if tried in the UK under the Computer Misuse Act (CMA). Todner said: "Gary... [13 Jan 2009]
UK struck by cyber crime wave
News C is for CMA Online identity theft dropped by eight per cent to affect just over 80,000 victims, while computer misuse offences - such as hacking and the spreading of viruses - affected 132,800 people... [30 Oct 2008]
Stark warning over cyber attacks on UK businesses
News C is for CMA Internet warfare expert Ira Winkler, president of the Internet Security Advisory Group, said Chinese hackers were "vacuuming up the internet for security and economic secrets" - citing examples such as the... [29 Oct 2008]
Tech-savvy recruited for organised crime
News C is for CMA According to Simmonds, computer criminals are in a far more lucrative trade than security professionals, and are in a position to fund people's computer science courses at university in return for... [23 Jun 2008]
Hacking 'goodies' get industry body
News C is for CMA An industry association has been created for ethical hackers, in a bid to reassure buyers of systems and applications that such products have been sufficiently tested. The Council of Registered Ethical... [25 Apr 2008]
Police unprepared for security 'arms race'
News C is for CMA Hartman said that with online scams worth billions of dollars and growth of state-sponsored hacking of corporate and national infrastructure, the need for specialised units has never been... [14 Feb 2008]
Linux, Leopard and Vista: The ultimate hack contest
News C is for CMA Apple Mac, Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems are to be pitted against each other in an ethical hacking contest in Vancouver next month. The hacking competition... [08 Feb 2008]
CPS hack attack guidelines: 'Confused'
News Guidelines published this week by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on how to interpret amendments to the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) have been branded "confused" by a renowned security expert. C is for CMA [04 Jan 2008]
Hacking a Mac 'just works', says researcher
News C is for CMA During his presentation, 'Hacking Leopard: Tools and techniques for attacking the newest Mac OS X', at the recent Black Hat Briefings, Miller said that for some reason the Mac OS has more... [14 Aug 2007]
Cheat Sheet: The Computer Misuse Act
Cheat Sheet Another key amendment is section 34, which replaces section three of the CMA - closing the loophole around denial of service (DoS) attacks by changing the wording so it legislates against "unauthorised acts with intent... [29 Nov 2006]
Microsoft 'slapped' by foul-mouthed DNS listing
News C is for CMA However, a spokeswoman for Whois denied any hacking of its own service has occurred and said its search is just pulling information from the crsnic.net database which is owned and operated... [15 Nov 2006]
The A to Z of security
News C is for CMA C is for CMA CMA The Computer Misuse Act 1990 (CMA) is, as its date stamp suggests, a 16-year-old UK government law dealing with malicious use of computers.... [14 Nov 2006]
Denial of service attackers face 10 years in jail
News Section three of the 1990 CMA is replaced by section 34 of the Police and Justice Act 2006, which now more explicitly covers denial of service attacks as "unauthorised acts with intent to impair operation of a computer". [10 Nov 2006]
