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Problems
Proving who has hacked into the computer Hacker can gain confidential information The organisation decide what is authorised and what isn’t E.G. If a code of practice fro school indicates that you are only allowed to use your account, if you give your password to your friend and they use your account, technically they have broken the law.

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there are 4 main provisions within the Computer Misuse Act (1990)

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There are four main provisions

Unauthorised access to computer material- Covers entering an individual’s password. This hacking into computers. Unauthorised access with intent to commit or facilitate the commission of further offences- An addition to entering an account and use it to transmit illegal material. Unauthorised acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing, operation of a computer- Making changes to the contents of a computer or denying access to the computer through denial of service attacks. Making, supplying or obtaining articles for use in computer misuse offences (known as Section 3A)- Involves malicious scripts or software that will modify original code (e.g. in set top boxes).

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It is an act that was ntroduced to protect data held by companies from hackers. It was reinforced by the police and justice act. It has 4 main provisions which are the following:

Unauthorized access to computer material

Unauthorized access with intent to commit or facilitate the commission of further offences

Unauthorized acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing, operation of a computer.

Making, supplying or obtaining articles for use in computer misuse offences.

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•Making: includes the writing/creation of Viruses, Trojans, Malware, Worms etc

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What is the Computer Misuse Act?

The Computer Misuse Act of 1990 is a type of legislation. It’s goal so far is to prevent virus, hackers and other IT threats from disturbing peace. Despite largely preventing it, there are still many cases of computer misuse.

This can be considered difficult to prosecute against due to the lack of evidence and the possibility that individual removed it.

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There are a few benefits, however there are more problems such as:

It is dfficult to prove that here was an intent when the offence took place.

The sentences tend to be lenient.

You have to still trace who was actually responsible for the offence, which me be ifficult as Hackers are skilful.

Your data is still lost, you cannot bring that back, even if the person
responsible is sentenced.

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The Computer Misuse Act of 1990 is a law in the United Kingdom that makes certain activities illegal, such as hacking into other people’s systems, misusing software, or helping a person to gain access to protected files of someone else's computer.
It has 4 offences;
1.“Unauthorised access to computer material”

2.“Unauthorised access with intent to commit or facilitate a crime”

3. “Unauthorised modification of computer material.”

3A/4. “Making, supplying or obtaining anything which can be used in computer misuse offences”

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the computer misuse act is made up of 3 sections:

Unauthorised access to computer materials:

What this means is someone is using a computer system without the users permission, this means that the user isn't aware that someone is accessing their files.

Unauthorised access with intent to commit or facilitate commission of further offences:

Similar to the first offence however this means that someone is on a computer without permission and is intending to do something illegal.

Unauthorised acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing, operation of a computer, etc:

This is the third step of the computer misuse act, after using a computer with unauthorised access, the misuser will then try to tamper with files on the computer. Similar to a virus however this is done by a person in the act.

Unauthorised modification of computer material:

This is the third step to the act, it means the unauthorised user modifies their computer system. This is done by deleting files intentionally or implementing a virus.

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The computer misuse act

Legislation that enabled hackers to be prosecuted under the law. The Computer Misuse Act (1990) created the following new offences.