Bipartisan hacking bill reintroduced legalizing outlawed active defensive measures

A bipartisan pair of congressmen proposed updating federal anti-hacking legislation Thursday to let U.S. businesses and consumers respond to cyberattacks by using tools prohibited under existing law.

Reps. Tom Graves, Georgia Republican, and Josh Gottheimer, New Jersey Democrat, reintroduced the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act, or ACDC, which they said ...