A coalition of businesses, trade bodies, lawyers and think tanks from across the cyber security industry have today taken the unprecedented step of uniting to pen a letter to the Prime Minister urging him to reform the law governing cybercrime in the UK, which came into effect thirty years ago today, claiming it is now ‘unfit for purpose’.

Give the Computer Misuse Act the 30th birthday present it deserves: reform. On the 29 of June 2020, the Cyber Up Campaign is inviting you to mark 30 years to the day since the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) gained royal assent.

One rule for them, one rule for the rest – what eBay and others’ port scanning practice tells us about the Computer Misuse Act. In the past week or so, there has been a considerable amount of discussion online about eBay’s use of a port-scanning script to check potential customers’ computers for malicious software that would indicate fraud

It’s time to bring this twentieth century legislation into the modern information age; to level the playing field for UK cyber security companies, address the industry skills shortage, and help us continue to protect people and organizations.

As the UK cyber security sector continues to be inhibited by the Computer Misuse Act, it is worth turning ones gaze toward the other countries with a more progressive approach to governing cyber crime.

The CyberUp campaign and cyber security specialists NCC Group are holding a drop-in cyber security training session for new and returning Members of Parliament and their staff on Monday 16 March 2020.

The CyberUp campaign welcomes UK government departments’ acknowledgement of the need for clear legal guidance to facilitate embracing threat-led cyber security without falling foul of cyber crime laws, and calls on the government to make good on the suggestion that cyber security professional need greater legal certainty by reforming the Computer Misuse Act

The CPS updated guidance on the Computer Misuse Act signals a step towards tackling legal ambiguity for the UK’s cyber defenders but only a change in the law can offer cyber security and threat intelligence researchers the comfort they need.

The CyberUp campaign joined up with the Criminal Law Reform Now Network (CLRNN) to launch their report into the reforms needed to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 in the House of Commons.

A new report released today by the Criminal Law Reform Now Network (CLRNN) finds the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (CMA) is “crying out for reform”.

Lynne Owens, Director General of the National Crime Agency, used an interview with the Mail on Sunday to suggest that the Computer misuse act had failed to keep pace with technology.

The chief executive of Insinia Security - which demonstrated a security flaw in Twitter by hijacking the accounts of Eamonn Holmes and Louis Theroux - has denied breaking the law and called the Computer Misuse Act not “fit for purpose.”