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Computer Misuse Act 1990
- Recognised Offences
- Unauthorised
Acces to computer
Material
- This offence is the lowest form of offence and
many people may have actually commited this
crime at one point in their lives. An example
of this would be getting someones password
for a social medai account and accessing said
account, doing this without proper
authorisation is illegal, even if you don't
change anyhting on the account. Doing this
could land the offener up to six months in
prison as well as the possibility of a large fine.
- This offence is the lowest form of offence and
many people may have actually commited this
crime at one point in their lives. An example
of this would be getting someones password
for a social medai account and accessing said
account, doing this without proper
authorisation is illegal, even if you don't
change anyhting on the account. Doing this
could land the offener up to six months in
prison as well as the possibility of a large fine.
- Unauthorised
access to intent to
commit or facilitate
a crime
- This offence entails a person gaining access to someone's
personal accounts or systems with the sole purpose of commiting
a crime/an illegal act. This could mean that they had to guess the
password to the account and use a trial and error method or they
could have used a program that allows them to get into such
accounts. They could do this to attempt to get details from a bank
or security of a company etc.Doing this could land you with a five
year prison sentence and possibly a fine
- This offence entails a person gaining access to someone's
personal accounts or systems with the sole purpose of commiting
a crime/an illegal act. This could mean that they had to guess the
password to the account and use a trial and error method or they
could have used a program that allows them to get into such
accounts. They could do this to attempt to get details from a bank
or security of a company etc.Doing this could land you with a five
year prison sentence and possibly a fine
- Making, supplying or
obtaining anything
which can be used in
misuse offences
- Making - This includes writing and
creating a; computer virus, trojans,
worms, malicious scripts, malware
and other malicious software
- Supplying - This covers any
distribution of any malicious
material regardless of if you have
created it or got it from
somewhere. It is an offense to
distribute these things
- Obtaining - If you obtain any of
these files that you know could
damage a computer system then
you are commiting a crime under
the Computer Misuse Act
- Making - This includes writing and
creating a; computer virus, trojans,
worms, malicious scripts, malware
and other malicious software
- Unauthorised
modication
of computer
material
- This offence entails the deletion or modification of files
in an attempt to sabotage a company, they delete this
with the intent to cause damage. This offence also
covers introducing viruses to someones system. This
offence can carry a penalty of up to five years in prison
and the possibility of a fine.
- This offence entails the deletion or modification of files
in an attempt to sabotage a company, they delete this
with the intent to cause damage. This offence also
covers introducing viruses to someones system. This
offence can carry a penalty of up to five years in prison
and the possibility of a fine.
- Unauthorised
Acces to computer
Material
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