The Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act proposes that limited retaliatory strikes against hackers that attack them will be legal. It will amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) of 1986. The aim is to give individuals and businesses legal authority to go beyond their own networks to disrupt cyber-attacks, retrieve and destroy stolen files, monitor the behaviour of an attacker and deploy beaconing technology to trace the hackers location. The largest issue with attack back is the difficulty in gaining that real attribution.”]
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