COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY
WHAT IS COMPUTER SECURITY
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Question
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look at someone else’s computer files without permission
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look at someone else’s computer files without permission with intent to commit further criminal offences
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change data on someone else’s computer files without permission
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all of the these
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Act also makes it an offence to make, adapt, supply or obtain articles for use in unlawfully gaining access to computer material or impairing the operation of a computer. Access is defined in the Act as: altering or erasing the computer programme or data. copying or moving the programme or data.
Detailed explanation-2: -Unauthorized access to computer material. Unauthorized access with intent to commit or facilitate commission of further offenses. Unauthorized acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing the operation of a computer. Unauthorized acts causing, or creating risk of, serious damage.
Detailed explanation-3: -What is not an offence under the Computer Misuse Act? Copying software and trying to sell it to someone for a profit is not an offence under the Computer Misuse Act.
Detailed explanation-4: -you shoulder surf as your friend enters their username and password, you remem-ber their login details, login to their account and read all their messages. Your friend leaves his tablet on the couch. Without his permission you access his amazon account and order a new computer console.