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Were back now with the fallout from that massive security breach touching nearly every american family, an important consumer headline that, frankly, has gotten swamped by this storm. but with nearly half the u.s. population affected, tonight anger is growing, and there are steps you can take to protect yourself, not just now but for years to come. heres nbcs tom costello. >> reporter: financial and cyber experts warn the equifax hack has the potential to haunt americans for decades, and every a...

6:00. >> cbs weekend news is up next. and news updates always at cbssf.com. see you in 30 minutes. >> ninan: breaking news from the korean peninsula. just as a north korean diplomat ties to open the door to talks with the u.s., the communist dictatorship fires another missile. also tonight, aboard air force pe, president trump says hes zeroing in on his pick to run the f.b.i., and he likes his choices. >> i think the process is going to go quickly because almost all of them are very well known. ...

Windows, first identified by the us national security agency and later leaked in a series of iolen documents. british politicians immediately fired back, including labour party leader jeremy corbyn. >> what weve now got is a bunch of 21st century highway robbers that have hacked into our n.h.s. and basically offering protection money to get the information back in order to treat cancer patients or anybody else. its unbelievably disgusting. >> reporter: hackers tricked victims into opening corrup...

>> no i said im thought aware and im not aware. >> press secretary sean spicer struggled to clarify if the surveillance occurred because mister trump was already part of investigations into russia. thats why we want the house and senate to do what the president has asked of them to look into this. >> house members are asking the department of justice to turn over any evidence of wire tapping by monday. president obamas director of national intelligence has disputed the presidents claim. >> there...

>> pelley: cops in the u.s. and europe have broken up a network of crooks who helped other criminals hijack computers around the world. heres jeff pegues. >> reporter: police in ukraine raided an apartment and arrested this man believed to be connected to the cyber theft ring that investigators have dubbed "the avalanche network." authorities say the network had computer servers in at least four countries and stole hundreds of millions of dollars. the acting u.s. attorney for the western distric...

Sites are being criticized for not doing enough to stop bogus stories that seemed to dominate the election cycle. jericka duncan has more on this. >> reporter: when a satirical website headlined a story "pope francis shocks the world, backs trump," the fake news went viral. waves of false headlines on social media have turned readers into believers. this week, social media giants facebook and google said they will go after hoax websites by restricting ad revenue. facebook is also planning to lau...

An obvious suspect following alleged hacks into the e-mails of democratic national committee members, but these attacks seemed to dollars more than votes. >> the idea of launching a massive attack, but a ddos attack to disrupt the internet, could have massive economic impacts in the united states. >> reporter: ddos stands for distributed denial of service, an attack that chokes a web site with fake requests. this particular attack didnt hit any brand-name web sites directly. instead, it focused ...

This weekend, the u.s. government gave up control of the so-called internet address book. tony dokoupil explains what that is and how it might impact the internet. >> reporter: no one owns the internet, but for nearly 20 years, the u.s. government has controlled the official list of every web site address. as of today, the governments control is no more. the job now belongs solely to icann, a nonprofit based in los angeles and advised by a global committee that includes china, russia, and iran. ...

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Well talk about that and how that might change the first debate. folks, we are less than three weeks away.