A proposal to increase the punishment for hacking offences from six months to two years in prison has been submitted to Parliament, in an attempt to make sentencing more accurately reflect the financial damage that online attacks can cause.
Glasgow South MP Tom Harris this month called for amendments to the Computer Misuse Act of 1990 through his Ten Minute Rule Bill, which would make denial of service (DoS) attacks a specific offence...
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