{"id":1646,"date":"2006-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/03\/07\/computer-hacking-laws-discussed-in-parliament\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:39:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:39:44","slug":"computer-hacking-laws-discussed-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/03\/07\/computer-hacking-laws-discussed-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer hacking laws discussed in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Commons heard the first reading of The Police and Justice Bill which, if approved, could lead to tougher prison sentences for computer hackers and virus writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home secretary Charles Clarke outlined details of the legislation, including an update of the 1990 Computer Misuse Act.<\/p>\n<p>By amending section three of the CMA to explicitly make denial of service attacks a criminal offence, the UK government also plans to ratify its position as a member of the Council of Europe&#8217;s cyber crime convention, which sets out a common international approach to prosecuting hackers, virus writers and internet extortionists.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.computing.co.uk\/computing\/news\/2151493\/computer-hacking-laws-discussed<\/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-1646","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\/1646","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=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4133,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/4133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}