New legislation in the Senate authorizes U.S. military hackers to go on the offensive against Russian attacks on the United States in cyberspace and also mandates a cyber deterrence doctrine after lawmakers were disappointed in the Trump administration's latest policy. The Senate Armed Services Committee's fiscal year 2019 defense policy bill designates clandestine military operations in cyberspace as "traditional military activities," affirming the secretary of defense's ability to order cyber operations, according to a summary of the legislation released yesterday...
