Citing unnamed officials involved in the review, the New York Times has reported that in the next few weeks, the Obama administration may approve the nation's first rules for how the US military can defend, or retaliate, against a major cyberattack.
"New policies will also govern how the intelligence agencies can carry out searches of faraway computer networks for signs of potential attacks on the US and, if the president approves, attack adversaries by injecting them with destructive code
