News Summary

• The long-awaited reform of Britain's outdated Computer Misuse Act of 1990 is to be included in a new National Security Bill.
• The bill is chiefly designed to make the UK a harder target for hostile foreign states and other dangerous groups to attack.
• It comes partly in response to the 2024 Southport terror attack, and more recent incidents targeting Britain’s Jewish community.
• It intends to create a Cyber Crime Risk Order that can be applied to control the behaviour of cyber criminals, and new abilities to search people believed to be concealing evidence on behalf of suspected offenders.