Moves by several European countries to tighten laws against computer hacking worry security professionals, who often use the same tools as hackers but for legitimate purposes. The U.K. and Germany are ...

Legal and IT experts have made submissions to the government’s call for views on the current rules around the use of computer evidence in court, which closes today. The wider public understanding of ...

This month, police officers in Marion, Kan., crashed into the newsroom of the Marion County Record, a weekly newspaper, and the home of its publisher to seize computers, cellphones and documents.

Transformational technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning profoundly impact the legal landscape, both in terms of how computation is changing legal systems and law practice and ...

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 Marion raid appears to be the first time public officials have searched a newspaper under the claim of enforcing a computer crime law. The state computer crime statute applies when someone breaks ...