The CyberUp Campaign, a group calling for urgent reform to the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) 1990, has launched a fresh consultation inviting security professionals and researchers to take part in a ...

The UK government has formally pledged to rewrite the 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act (CMA) to shield cybersecurity professionals from potential prosecution for legitimate threat research. Security ...

Two amendments to the Data (Access and Use) Bill that would have established a statutory legal defence for security professionals and ethical hackers to protect them from prosecution under the 1990 ...

The UK and Portugal are looking to give protection to ethical hackers to allow them to find and report vulnerabilities without fear of prosecution. Hacking into computer systems is illegal in many ...