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![Ex-Senate Employee Pleads Guilty to Theft of Personal Data](/static/build/img/news/alt/Data-Cybersecurity-Predictions-2-small.jpg)
A former congressional staffer has pleaded guilty to five federal offenses that stem from illegally posting online the home addresses and telephone numbers of five Republican senators who backed...
![No dice, comrade! Senate floats Russia-busting election law](/static/build/img/news/alt/managed-security-small.jpg)
Proposed bill would bring immediate sanctions for tampering with democracy The US Senate is mulling a bill that would call for sanctions on any country caught trying to hack or influence American...
![U.S. Senators Want Transparency on Senate Cyberattacks](/static/build/img/news/alt/cybersecurity-breach-statistics-small.jpg)
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Tom Cotton believe all senators should receive information on successful cyberattacks aimed at the Senate. read more
![Equifax Was Aware of Cybersecurity Weaknesses for Years, Senate Report Says](/static/build/img/news/alt/cybersecurity-attacker-small.jpg)
The massive Equifax data breach that impacted 148 million Americans in 2017 was the result of years of poor cybersecurity practices, a new Staff Report from the United States Senate’s Permanent...
![US House and Senate debate new data privacy law](/static/build/img/news/alt/Data-Cybersecurity-Predictions-small.jpg)
A steady stream of hair-raising revelations about the treatment of users' data by Facebook, et al. is pushing Congress to do *something.*
![Consumer Groups Protest Being Left Out of Senate Privacy Hearing](/static/build/img/news/alt/password-statistics-small.jpg)
Consumer groups voiced dismay Friday after a US Senate panel considering privacy legislation scheduled a largely industry-packed witness list for an upcoming hearing. read more
![Senate Committee Approves Several Cybersecurity Bills](/static/build/img/news/alt/managed-security-small.jpg)
The U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Wednesday voted to approve several cybersecurity bills, including ones related to incident response, supply chain...
![Senate Panel to Hear From Internet Execs on Privacy Policies](/static/build/img/news/alt/Data-Cybersecurity-Predictions-small.jpg)
The Trump administration is hoping Congress can come up with a new set of national rules governing how companies can use consumers' data that finds a balance between "privacy and prosperity." read more
![Lawmaker: US Senate, Staff Targeted by State-Backed Hackers](/static/build/img/news/alt/cybersecurity-attacker-small.jpg)
Foreign government hackers continue to target the personal email accounts of U.S. senators and their aides — and the Senate’s security office has refused to defend them, a lawmaker says. read more
![In Trump Rebuke, US Senate Votes to Reimpose Ban on China's ZTE](/static/build/img/news/alt/Geopolitical-Cybersecurity-Predictions-2-small.jpg)
The US Senate defied President Donald Trump by voting Monday to overrule his administration's deal with Chinese telecom firm ZTE and reimpose a ban on high-tech chip sales to the company. Senators...