COMPUTER NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS
NETWORK SECURITY AND CYBERSECURITY
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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 above
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Detailed explanation-1: -unauthorised access to computer material. unauthorised access with intent to commit or facilitate commission of further offences. unauthorised acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing, operation of computer, etcetera.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Computer Misuse Act was passed in 1990. 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-3: -For example, a person may make available on the Internet information outlining security weaknesses in a computer system. Another may post malicious code. Yet another may simply trade in passwords. ‘Rootkits’, which disguise a person’s presence on a compromised computer, were once the domain of highly skilled hackers.
Detailed explanation-4: -Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section. MISUSE OF DEVICES. • Intentional and without right, production, sale, procurement for use, or distribution of: ○ Access devices, including computer programs.