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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, chat rooms
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: WEP, Accessories
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: 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, 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, 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: 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
