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BBC buys botnet, bothers barristers

To demonstrate the threats from botnets, the BBC, acting under legal guidance, purchased a network of 22,000 infected computers and used it to spam its own email accounts Read more

13 March 2009, 11:16 | Tags: BBC, Twitter, Gmail, Hotmail, lawyers

CNET UK > Crave > Accessories

Crave Talk: Should 'stealing' Wi-Fi be illegal?

Stealing Wi-Fi to gain Internet access is a criminal offence -- as a west London man found out recently. But what do you think? Read more

23 August 2007, 10:55 | Tags: Computer Misuse Act, WEP, Accessories

CNET UK > News > Software

News.blog: Online list of cheating men gets sued

It was only a matter of time before the Web site DontDateHimGirl.com, a database of unfaithful men, was sued, writes News.com blogger Caroline McCarthy Read more

3 July 2006, 10:58 | Tags: Software

CNET UK > News > Software

Web designer sentenced for hacking competitor's site

A British Web designer has been given a suspended jail sentence after hacking into a rival's Web site and downloading a large amount of internal information Read more

14 August 2007, 09:25 | Tags: Computer Misuse Act, police, Metropolitan Police, Software

CNET UK > News > Software

UK spammer gets two months in bedroom

Having pleaded guilty to crashing an email server by sending it five million messages, David Lennon will be under a night-time curfew for two months Read more

24 August 2006, 09:21 | Tags: cybercrime, Computer Misuse Act, Software

CNET UK > News > Networking & Wi-Fi

Teenager cleared in 'e-mail bomb' case

Judge rules that denial-of-service attacks are not outlawed by the U.K.'s Computer Misuse Act. Read more

3 November 2005, 16:17 | Tags: Accessories

CNET UK > News > Software

Irate football fans spammed takeover lawyers

Angry Manchester United fans tried to hamper law firm Allen & Overy's role in US billionaire Malcolm Glazer's takeover of the club by sending them huge emails Read more

22 September 2005, 09:24 | Tags: lawyers, Computer Misuse Act, Manchester United, spam, Software

CNET UK > News > Software

Hackers should spend more time in prison, say MPs

A new Westminster bill looks to criminalise all hacking, with a specific offence for denial-of-service attacks Read more

15 July 2005, 09:45 | Tags: Computer Misuse Act, hackers, Westminster, financial, Software

CNET UK > News > Software

British NASA hacker "frightened" by ease of entry

Gary McKinnon, the British hacker facing extradition to the US, says that he could access thousands of computers because they weren't even protected by passwords Read more

15 July 2005, 09:35 | Tags: NASA, BIOS, Computer Misuse Act, Software

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