{"id":1643,"date":"2006-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/01\/27\/u-k-bill-would-increase-penalties-for-cybercriminals\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:39:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:39:44","slug":"u-k-bill-would-increase-penalties-for-cybercriminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/01\/27\/u-k-bill-would-increase-penalties-for-cybercriminals\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. bill would increase penalties for cybercriminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British government has proposed sharply increasing penalties for computer crimes, which are taking a financial toll on U.K. businesses.    The Police and Justice Bill would amend the Computer Misuse Act of 1990, a Home Office spokeswoman said Friday. It would increase the maximum penalty for unauthorized modification of a computer from five years to 10 years, a provision that would cover all forms of DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the bill is passed into law, those convicted of unauthorized access to a computer could face up to a two-year prison sentence, up from six months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the last 18 months there have been a lot of high-profile DoS attacks which have in turn been accompanied by extortion requests against U.K. online bookmakers,&#8221; the spokeswoman said.  Of 200 companies that participated in the survey, 90%reported they had experienced unauthorized access to their networks, while 89 percent had been victims of data theft.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/securitytopics\/security\/story\/0,10801,108133,00.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4130,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/4130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}