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House Intel Committee Report Recommends Congress Updates FISA to Cover Cyber Actors

Homeland Security Today: A report from the House Intelligence Committee recommends that Congress update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to cover malicious international cyber actors.

A heavily redacted report has been released by the Committee as part of an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. It notes that Congress tried to address cyber issues as part of its statutory reauthorization of FISA.

The report states that current national is not sufficient to counter the threat from cyber actors. It says: “Given the difficulty in attributing a specific cyber actor, the lines between independent hacker and government cyber operator are often blurred.

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