[pchelpers] News:New law introduced to criminalise denial-of-service attacks

November 14, 2008

A new law that criminalises denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and the
supply of hacking tools has been brought into force in England and
Wales. 

DoS attacks involve the simultaneous sending of millions of messages or
page requests to an organisation's servers where a sudden, massive
deluge of information can render both a website and email servers
inoperable.

The changes now make it a criminal offence to conduct DoS attacks. Where
the original legislation included offences of unauthorised access to
computer material and of unauthorised modification of computer material,
there is now a new offence of doing anything without authorisation with
intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing, the operation of
a computer.

The new offence carries a maximum penalty of ten years' imprisonment and
a fine and replaces the more limited offence of unauthorised
modification, which carried a five-year maximum sentence.

More here:
http://www.scmagazineuk.com/New-law-introduced-to-criminalise-denial-of-service-attacks/article/121017/
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