An academic researcher has analysed more than 100 Computer Misuse Act cases to paint a picture of the sort of computer-enabled criminals who plague Great Britain’s digital doings in the 21st Century.
The average Computer Misuse Act convict is likely to be a semi- or low-skilled individual, mostly working alone and more likely than not to have no knowledge of his or her victim, James Crawford of Royal Holloway, University of London, found.
In a “technical report” analysing a decade of publicly reported cases, Crawford looked at the apparent skillsets of crooks convicted under the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) before examining their motivations and demographics.
“The low skill category is largely made up of ex-IT employees who used their knowledge of the systems that they used to operate in order to damage their previous employers,” noted Crawford, who average british computer criminal young highly skilled researcher finds
