FBI outlines proposals for dealing with cybercrime to Congress

Joseph Demarest, assistant director at the FBI, has been testifying on the threats of cybercrime to a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Network World reports that the agency has three specific recommendations of how Congress could assist with the ever-evolving problem.

The first step would be updating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The law, first enacted all the way back in 1986 was created at a time when cyberthreats were comparatively modest, has had amendments over the years, but none since 2008. “Updating the CFAA to reflect these changes would help strengthen our ability to punish, and therefore to deter, the crimes we seek to prevent,” Demarest explained

FBI outlines proposals for dealing with cybercrime to Congress