The UK introduces a ‘Police and Justice Bill’ to punish cyber-criminals more severely: max. 10 years inprisonment for DOS attackers, up to 12 months for obtaining ‘physical or digital tools which could be used to commit cyber crimes, with intent’, Computer Weekly reports. Under current legislation, DOS attacks were not covered since the act was conceived before such attacks were known in the UK, as a recent case demonstrated. From the report it remains unclear whether simply buying a computer would be punished since any computer could be used to commit cyber crimes …