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.”