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Data breach prompts Senate vote on cybersecurity

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Data breach prompts Senate vote on cybersecurity

Susan Ferrechio · June 9, 2015 7:44 pm

Katherine Archuleta, director of the Office of Personnel Management, participates in a discussion at the Women Veterans Career Development Forum at Women in Military Service for America Memorial on November 10, 2014 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for BPW Foundation)

OPM to brief Intel panel on data breach

Susan Ferrechio · June 9, 2015 4:59 pm

"What will it take for President Obama to open his eyes?" Mike Huckabee asked in a statement. "The way you deal with a bully on the playground is to punch them in the face and put them on the ground because the only thing they respect is power." (AP Photo)Â

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Huckabee says it’s time to ‘hack China back’

Ariel Cohen · June 8, 2015 7:16 pm

The biggest roadblock to Senate action on the cyber bill was demolished last week when the "USA Freedom Act" cleared the Senate. (iStock)

Surveillance reform could tee up cyber bill

Charlie Mitchell · June 8, 2015 4:01 am

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Mike McCaul, R-Texas, emerges from a closed-door Republican strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Lawmaker: China clearly behind ‘the most significant breach of federal networks in U.S. history’

Sean Higgins · June 7, 2015 4:21 pm

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Rep. King: Hackers must know there are ‘consequences’

Sean Higgins · June 7, 2015 3:53 pm

Men watch an electronic share price display at the Tokyo Stock Exchange January 19, 2006 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images)

Cyberattacks and the quandary of evolving technology

Javier Ortiz · June 6, 2015 9:00 am

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Government’s ‘free’ ID theft protection could cost $20 million

Pete Kasperowicz · June 5, 2015 10:46 pm

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif. answers a question during a House GOP leadership news conference, Tuesday, March 24, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

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House to Obama: We passed cybersecurity

Susan Ferrechio · June 5, 2015 9:39 pm

This March 25, 2014 file photo shows former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., leaving a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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‘Shameful’: Top cybersecurity architect slams Obama for blaming Congress

Susan Crabtree · June 5, 2015 9:04 pm

The entrance to the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building that houses the Office of Personnel Management headquarters is shown June 5, 2015 in Washington, DC. U.S. investigators have said that at least four million current and former federal employees might have had their personal information stolen by Chinese hackers. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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House staff spared from data breach

Susan Ferrechio · June 5, 2015 8:35 pm

White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks about the Chinese hack of the computer system of the Office of Personnel Management, Friday, June 5, 2015, during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Blame game: White House deflects on data breach, blasts Congress for inaction

Susan Crabtree · June 5, 2015 6:58 pm