Irin is a newly joined penetration tester for XYZ Ltd. While joining, as a part of her training, she was instructed about various legal policies and information securities acts by her trainer. During the training, she was informed about a specific information security act related to the conducts and activities like it is illegal to perform DoS attacks on any websites or applications, it is illegal to supply and own hacking tools, it is illegal to access unauthorized computer material, etc. To which type of information security act does the above conducts and activities best suit?

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The Police and Justice Act 2006 includes provisions related to computer misuse, such as making it illegal to perform DoS attacks, supply hacking tools, and access unauthorized computer material.

Irin Is a Newly Joined Penetration Tester for XYZ Ltd