To hack or not to hack - that is the question

US Assistant Attorney General Leslie R Caldwell is urging the private sector to work more closely with government but urged businesses not to take the battle to the cyber criminals with defensive measures such a “hacking back” against attackers to punish them or retrieve stolen data.
“Based on a simple, plain-text reading of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, such conduct is generally unlawful,” says Caldwell.
She added that ‘hacking back’ carries the danger of dramatic escalation against unknown and potentially sophisticated adversaries who may have powerful and destructive technical capabilities.
This debate is, however, set to run as a growing number of organisations worldwide become frustrated at being forced to fight cyber crime with one arm tied behind their back, unable often to even to trace the source of a hack that has robbed them of millions of dollars or even endangered the survival of their business.
Read more: https://www.ofdigitalinterest.com/2015/06/should-we-hack-back/