Legal 4.1.3 - Computer misuse

• Computer misuse Offence 1 - unauthorised access to computer material

  Punishment: up to 2 years in prison and/or large fine
• Offence 3a– Making, supplying or obtaining anything which can be used in computer misuse offences.

  Punished by up to 2 years in prison and/or a large fine.
• Offence 1 examples:

  Hacking computer
• Offence 3 examples?

  DOS attack, and hacking a system
• Computer misuse Offence 3 - Unauthorised acts with intent, or recklessness toward impairing the operation of a system.

  Punishment: up to 10 years in prison and/or large fine
• Offence 3a examples?

  Creating malware
• Computer misuse Offence 2 - unauthorised access with intent to further other offences

  Punishment: Up to 5 years in prison and/or a large fine
• Computer misuse offence 3ZA is?

  Unauthorised access causing, or creating risk of, serious damage to computer systems
• Computer misuse offence 3ZA - A serious cyber attack, usually having risk of loss of life, etc

  Punishemnt: An unlimited fine and/or up to 14 years in prison, unless there is a risk to social welfare or national security. In which case it is a maximum life sentence
• Real life example of a computer misuse act was cracka, a 16-year-old boy who hacked CIA and FBI accounts and traded their sensitive data.

  A boy was arrested on suspicion of these actions, accused with committing section 1,2, and 3 misuse acts
• Another real life example of a computer misuse offence was a man named Cuthbert, who triggered a websites protection systems. He was attempting to access it to discover if it was a scam.

  He was found to have been in breach of section 1 and had to pay £400 as a fine and £600 to the court