The Obama administration policy of avoiding assertive action against foreign hackers came under fire from Congress last week, and is raising concerns that the White House is failing to protect the country from large-scale cyber attacks.
Christopher Painter, the State Department's coordinator for cyber security, defended the administration's strategy for deterring massive data breaches, like China's pilfering of sensitive personnel records on 22 million federal workers, known as "deterrence by denial."
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