Lawmakers wrestling with cybersecurity policy, deterrence in age of election hacking

By Jordana Mishory / January 5, 2017 at 5:42 PM
As the intelligence community points a finger at Russia for hacking Democrats' emails in an effort to influence the 2016 presidential election, lawmakers are wrestling with the best ways to handle cybersecurity policy and develop deterrence mechanisms to prevent adversaries from engaging in future cyberattacks. During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday with senior intelligence and cyber officials , Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) expressed concern that the benefits of engaging in cyberattacks against the United States far outweigh the...

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