The U.S. and Iran may have walked back from the brink of war, but the potential for a cyber battle looms with no clear rules of engagement.
Lawmakers and military officials say there’s no agreed-upon definition of what constitutes cyber warfare, leaving them to decide on a case-by-case basis how best to respond to individual incidents.
“We've never really gone down the route to define what constitutes an act of war when it comes to cyberattacks,” Sen. Ron JohnsonRonald (Ron) Harold JohnsonSenators set for briefing on cyber threats from Iran GOP lawmaker shares fake image of Obama meeting with Iran's Rouhani Election security, ransomware dominate cyber concerns for 2020 MORE (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told The Hill last week.
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