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BBC buys botnet, bothers barristers

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:16:02 +0000

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

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

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:55:02 +0000

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

Web designer sentenced for hacking competitor's site

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:25:02 +0000

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

UK spammer gets two months in bedroom

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:21:18 +0000

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

News.blog: Online list of cheating men gets sued

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:58:32 +0000

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

Teenager cleared in 'e-mail bomb' case

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:17:00 +0000

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

Irate football fans spammed takeover lawyers

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:24:01 +0000

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

Hackers should spend more time in prison, say MPs

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:45:00 +0000

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

British NASA hacker "frightened" by ease of entry

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:35:00 +0000

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

US to take cybersecurity seriously

Thu, 19 May 2005 10:23:00 +0000

The US Congress may try to slow the turnover of cybersecurity leaders by giving the position more weight