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CYBERUK ’26: UK lagging on legal protections for cyber pros

  • Alex Scroxton--ComputerWeekly.com
  • published date: 2026-04-16 12:13:00 UTC

Ahead of next week's CYBERUK conference, the CyberUp Campaign for reform of the UK's hacking laws urges the government to keep focus, and proposes a four-pillar framework that would protect cyber professionals from prosecution.

The increasingly long-in-the-tooth Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990 remains an albatross around the neck of British cyber security professionals, and even though the UK government committed last Dec… [+4055 chars]