E-mail bomber to be retried in UK
May 17, 2006
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
A teenager who crashed a former employer's server by sending a torrent of junk e-mail, a practice known as mail bombing, could still face up to five years in prison after the case was sent back to trial.
On Thursday, a British appeals court rejected a lower court's ruling that David Lennon didn't violate the U.K.'s Computer Misuse Act of 1990. Lennon is charged with one count of unauthorized modification of a computer.
The case goes to the core of calls to revise the Computer Misuse Act with more specific language to address denial-of-service attacks.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/
A teenager who crashed a former employer's server by sending a torrent of junk e-mail, a practice known as mail bombing, could still face up to five years in prison after the case was sent back to trial.
On Thursday, a British appeals court rejected a lower court's ruling that David Lennon didn't violate the U.K.'s Computer Misuse Act of 1990. Lennon is charged with one count of unauthorized modification of a computer.
The case goes to the core of calls to revise the Computer Misuse Act with more specific language to address denial-of-service attacks.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/