DOSing Now Illegal

No we aren’t talking about sleeping on the job! We’re talking about Denial Of Service attacks.

On the 8th of November 2006, The Police and Justice Bill was accepted into UK law. Under Clause 40 it became amongst other things, a criminal offense to perform DOS attacks in the UK.

A number of other important changes were made, including the doubling of sentences from five to ten years for hacking into computer systems. Various amendments were made to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 under this new law. Only took them sixteen years to get something done!

At last the law has some teeth to go after the hackers who use DOS attacks for criminal intent. The law is slowly catching up with technology.