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Priti Patel calls for reform of Computer Misuse Act amid ‘truly horrific levels’ of child sexual abuse Kim Sengupta © Provided by The Independent Priti Patel has highlighted the “truly horrific levels’’ of sexual abuse and exploitation of children on the internet, and a huge rise in overall criminal activities online as she called for review and reform of the 21-year-old Computer Misuse Act.   The home secretary told a cybersecurity conference that the scale of t...

Everyones afraid of breaching it when doing their jobs - even the police The Law Commission, a government law reform body, published a report on search warrants in October 2020 that highlighted police fears about breaching the CMA while investigating online crimes. That report [PDF] recommended reform of the act for three reasons: The first reason accords with the observation made by the Law Society and which we have endorsed elsewhere: it would be beneficial to both the individual subject to...

NCSC cyber guidance targets cloud and home working The NCSC’s refreshed cyber security guidance for larger organisations places particular emphasis on cloud, home working and ransomware Share this item with your network: By Published: 11 May 2021 16:15 The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published refreshed cyber security guidance to take account of how quickly the threat landscape has changed in the past year to place more emphasis on securing cloud services, protecting...

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda   About URA: The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) was established by the Uganda Revenue Authority Statute of 1991 and set up in September of the same year as a central body for assessment and collection of specified revenue, to administer and enforce the laws relating to such revenue and to provide for related matters. This statute incorporated all the laws that were in force then regarding tax collection. The new organization (URA) amalgamated the three tax admini...

Salisbury Crown Court A former social worker has been jailed, after she accessed data that she had no authorised reason to do so. Police say Donna Davies committed a "serious breach of trust" for the vulnerable people and children she worked with as a social worker. Her motive "remains unclear," they say. She was sentenced today (April 30) following guilty pleas to a number of offences relating to the Computer Misuse Act, where she has accessed sensitive data that she had no legitimate ...

The move has similarities to the FBIs cleaning-up of infected Microsoft Exchange Server deployments this month, a move that prompted considerable debate when we revealed the same thing could be lawfully done in the UK. Emotet was particularly nasty in that it spread via malicious attachments in spam emails, and once installed, could bring in additional malware: infected machines were rented out to crooks to install things like ransomware and code that drained victims online bank accounts. Compu...

The Fraud Advisory Panel has outlined five key recommendations to combat social media fraud as online scammer statistics continue to surge. Social media has featured in at least 61,000 crime reports to Action Fraud in 2020-2021, with losses of more than £120m recorded. More generally, computer misuse offences were up last year by 36% to 1.7m – mostly driven by the hacking of social media and email.  The Fraud Advisory Panel (FAP) warns that current remedies, including the On...

Would move for The Greater Good™ actually be good, though? Gareth Corfield Mon 19 Apr 2021 // 09:39 UTC Share Copy Comment UK authorities could lawfully copy the FBI and forcibly remove web shells from compromised Microsoft Exchange server deployments – but some members of the British infosec industry are remarkably quiet about whether this would be a good thing. In the middle of last week the American authorities made waves after deleting web shells from Exchange Se...

SINGAPORE - Two women, one of them a civil servant, will be charged with offences under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) on Wednesday (April 14). The civil servant had allegedly leaked the number of Covid-19 cases in Singapore on 22 occasions between March and April 2020. She had also allegedly accessed a government Covid-19 database for information about a patient...

SINGAPORE, April 14 — The deputy lead of a data management unit started by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in response to the Covid-19 pandemic was today charged with leaking daily coronavirus case numbers 22 times between March and April last year. Zhao Zheng, a 36-year-old Singaporean, faces 24...