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Equifax rival TransUnion has hired cybersecurity lobbyists in Washington, D.C.

It fears regulation after the major cyber intrusion at Equifax, revealed this September.

My data was compromised in the Equifax hack. What now?

Security researcher Brian Krebs joins us on the latest episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask to explain what happened — and what happens next.

A powerful U.S. Senate committee is demanding that Yahoo and Equifax testify about two major security breaches

A 2013 breach affected all three billion of Yahoo’s users, more than three times what it initially believed.

Twitter and Facebook haven’t stopped Russia-backed RT from advertising on their websites

Last week, Twitter turned over RT ads to congressional investigators

How to watch the former CEO of Equifax testify before Congress

Former CEO Richard Smith apologized for the breach.

The U.S. Congress is going to hold two hearings on the massive Equifax data breach

Meanwhile, New York announces its own investigation.

Hackers breached Equifax, accessing sensitive data for 143 million U.S. consumers

Social Security numbers and other information has been compromised, the company says.

When it comes to cybersecurity, companies need force fields, not walls

The threat landscape has changed so dramatically, so fast that it has outpaced previously sound security practices.

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The HBO hack: what we know (and what we don't)

Hackers have reportedly stolen seven times as much data from the network as was stolen in the 2014 Sony hack.

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Sunday’s episode of Game of Thrones has leaked online

HBO is experiencing another high-profile leak, but this one isn’t due to a hack.

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An email prankster pretending to be Reince Priebus got a very real rise out of Anthony Scaramucci

The anonymous Twitter user duped several White House officials.

Two U.S. lawmakers think the government has a new cybersecurity problem: The Internet of Things

And they’ll introduce a bill on Tuesday, they told Recode, to try to fix it.

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Hackers hit HBO, warn they’ll release Game of Thrones content

“HBO is falling,” hackers warn.

Full transcript: Blockchain expert and Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire on Too Embarrassed to Ask

What is blockchain? And why do we care?

Famed hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek are joining Cruise after leaving Didi and Uber

Miller left Didi after just four months.

Senate lawmakers want to make it harder for law enforcement to access suspects’ emails and location data

They’re introducing a new bill that seeks to update a 1986 privacy law that predates most tech companies.

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Bitcoin exchange chief arrested amid new questions about Mt Gox theft

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A cybersecurity expert on why you should be very worried about the internet’s future

"It will take the attention of the free society that built the internet to save it." —Alexander Klimburg

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Ransomware victims have paid out more than $25 million, Google study finds

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Valve patches exploit that allowed hackers to hijack computers by fragging opponents

New corporate titans are rising faster than ever, but they’re also fading faster, too

The forces governing business today might just come down to understanding the difference between “weapon” and “tool.”

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Two-factor authentication is a mess

It was supposed to be a one-stop security fix. What happened?

U.S. hospitals have been hit by the global ransomware attack

The ransomware is linked to a leaked vulnerability originally kept by the National Security Agency.

Your data is probably safer with Facebook than with your hospital

So says Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on the latest episode of Recode Decode.

The massive, worldwide ransomware attack was stopped by a researcher ‘accidentally’

Friendly reminder: Always update your software!

A global cyber attack on hospitals and other organizations so far hasn’t crippled the U.S., an official says

An official at the Department of Homeland Security says they’ve received no confirmed reports that critical infrastructure has been affected.

Trump just signed an executive order for a full review of the country’s digital defenses

The new effort orders a host of studies and seeks the tech industry’s help.

Twitter bots are being weaponized to spread information on the French presidential campaign hack

Five percent of the accounts tweeting #MacronGate make up 40 percent of Tweets.

What you need to know about that latest NSA data dump

This could make it even harder for Europe and Silicon Valley to trust the U.S. government.

The apps to use if you want to keep your messages private

Protect yourself from hackers.

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The CIA could probably hack your smartphone. Here's why they likely won't.

Don't let WikiLeaks scare you away from using encrypted messaging apps.

The U.S. government showed just how easy it is to hack drones made by Parrot, DBPower and Cheerson

Researchers took complete control over two of the drones.