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Hold a minority hearing on the equifax data breach. Commanding properly supported by the majority of minority members. The gentlemane from california, chairman of our Foreign Affairs committee. Mr. Chairman, thank you. I thank mr. Smith for being here today. Ande september 7, my office all these offices have received a lot of angry and anxious socalled and emailed by our constituents and i think one of the things that really stands out is how can a company that deals in data not protect that dat...

Organization as it functions on a day to day basis. Tonight, at 8 p. M. Eastern, on cspans q a. On thursday, richard smith, the former ceo and chairman equifax, testified on the data breach at his company that compromise the records of an 100 40 Million Consumers. This testimony to the House Financial Services committee was his fourth appearance before a Congressional Committee in a week. Its three hours and 15 minutes. The committee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a risk ...

[inaudible conversations] good morning now the executive session is complete data reaches not a new issue weve been focused on the consumer that was before i was elected to the senate. The breach is what many would consider to be the high profile breach with a number of investigations from the federal and state authorities. This was originally created by equifax so in terms of the trajectory the major did reach you could say we could come full circle. Congress paid close attention to the dative ...

Chair good morning, now that our executive session is complete we turn to the issue of data breaches. This is not a new issue. The committee has been focused on the Consumer Impact since before i was elected to the senate. The september 2004 choice point breach was considered to be the first highprofile data breach in the modern era prompted investigations from this committee and state authorities. Choice point was a data Aggregation Company originally as fateby equifax who would have it is repr...

To get into that device and that is true in case after case after case which is why we have to figure out a way to optimize those two things, privacy and public safety. Well, to be candid, my understanding about some of this was that the European Community had special concerns about privacy and that some of the companies in our country were concerned, well they would lose business. That european concern is changing. I think what i read about the u. K. , what i understand is happening in france a...

Not the only person in my family who was adopted. This is this is the cbs weekend news. Share it with another researcher to stop the problem. A lot of security researchers commonly use just various methods of sharing samples and codes, sometimes it will be as simple as taking a screen shot from one of the programs that we use to reverse engineer malware such as this. Reporter he covered a kill switch for the ransomware and shared it on twitter. At the same time halfway around the world a british...

And they will turn on their computer and they will have the surprise of having none of their files. Reporter already ransom wear locked up 200,000 computers in 150 counties. It distributed operations at helmets disrupted operations at hospitals. The principle cyber threat. The attack holds your system hostage forcing users to pay 300 or risk their data being erased. Once they got into your system it is painstakingly difficult to get it out. Causes a dissection of a lot of Different Things throug...

Not the only person in my family who was adopted. This is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im elaine quijano. The global hack attack that started friday is expected to cause monday morning computer problems around the world. A second wave of socalled rans ransom ware could freeze computer as people return to work. Mireya villarreal spoke to an expert. I would say that this is the worst ransom ware attack that has ever happened. Reporter 28yearold seeker security engineer da...

A u. S. Official tells reuters it landed about 60 miles off the coast of russia. It was the First Successful test after a string of recent failures. The regime continues to test banned ballistic missiles, despite worldwide condemnation. But the u. S. Military says the flight pattern of todays launch was not consistent with an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile often icbm, the type that could reach the u. S. Mainland. In january, north korean dictator kim jong un said an icbm test was imminent, b...

Hearing that russia is a principal threat. He also said he supports the Iran Nuclear Deal, which trump has repeatedly criticized. I think to publicly display what iran is up to, that their surrogates and proxies, their terrorist units that they support, to recognize the Ballistic Missile threat, to deal with the maritime threat, and to publicly make clear to everyone what theyre doing in the cyber realm all helps to constrain iran. Amy we will host a roundtable discussion with Andrew Bacevich, a...