That this subcommittee has been investigating this for more than a year they see there is a significant problem there and essentially this is a short being fired across the bows of the tech giants know that shot was also echoed by the president dont trump seeing that if the Tech Companies didnt do something to stop their monopoly then he would take executive action if congress didnt act well looks as if Congress Might well i this committee has called for further hearings in september and the chairman of the committee who you heard from earlier he said that some of these Companies Need to be broken up some need to be regulated there has to be a change in the law and the legislation particularly in the digital age because a lot of these laws were drawn up at the beginning of last century when there were Big Companies around and they were taking advantage of their position so this is essentially the legislators saying to the big Tech Companies you really need to get your house in order an
This year. It has been on a tear, and we will, of course, continue and watch and see what the major indices do today we begin with twitter and that massive security hack pressuring that stock this morning. It is off the lows, though, up about 1. 5 that attack targeted some of the companys highest profile users including elon musk, former president barack obama, and others joiningi joining us now is robert hirsovek good morning. Good morning, everyone. They say it was a coordinated social engineering attack that successfully targeted some of our employees who had access to tools. What this said to me is this was a con more than it was a particularly sophisticated technical attack, and im reminded all of twitters employees are working from home. I mean is this the first red flag of working from home . Its the first one thats made so much media i can tell you from personal experience we do a lot of Cyber Security, manage a lot of corporations were seeing a growth in phishing like weve nev
A controversial social media bill passed in turkey spocks concern about freedom of expression. Thank you for joining is. The most populous country in the world not to have recorded a single coronavirus related death and after being virus free for months it says its making preparations for a major wave of infections dozens of cases have been reported in the central city of don where a Strict Lockdown is now in place infections have also been reported in its 2 lodges cities the capital high noise and hoshi mean city the vietnamese government says the entire country is now at risk of infection as spring in our correspondent scott highway has in bangkok for scott vietnam was seen as a Success Story in containing coronavirus but is now on high alert. It absolutely is although you know you we you know you look at the last 3 months there what wasnt one case of locally transmitted coded positive case so obviously when we saw what happened over the weekend and then last weekend there was there
Their abandoning demands for self rule. Im joining us now with the sports including a shutout a Major League Baseball fan now the Miami Marlins have Upcoming Games to his pint as the team battles occur in a Virus Outbreak. All countries and cities in asia are praised for effectively tackling the coronavirus pandemic are now raising alarms over new infections its just after chen 10 g. M. T. Were tracking the covert 1000. 00 hotspots around the world vietnam says every city in provinces now with the risk of an outbreak of to being virus free for months while hong kongs leaders also warning the city is on the verge of a large scale outbreak and the Hospital System is at risk of collapsing. I mean while a new report in india says more than half of the people in mumbais slums of had coronavirus about 40 percent of the citys population lives in shanties in the u. K. The governments under pressure for discharging thousands of patients from hospitals into care homes without testing them some m
Environment or find out why hundreds of activists have been killed in the last year. Some countries and cities in asia praise for effectively tackling the coronavirus pandemic and now raising the alarm over new infections after being virus free for months vietnam says its making preparations for a major wave of infections thousands of cases have been before today in the central city of dunn non where a strict slow down is now in place meanwhile hong kongs leader carry now says its Hospital System could face collapse as it deals with a shop rise in cases i spoke to our correspondent scott hydra who has more on the situation in vietnam and hong kong. So you look at the last 3 months there what wasnt one case of locally transmitted coded positive case so obviously when we saw what happened over the weekend and then last weekend there was there was infection rate thats why the the government took the step of evacuating most tourists there about 80000 tourists were evacuated from demand bec