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Recent ransomware attacks have startled organizations across all industries. The ransomware problem isn’t new, but its scale and severity has quickly escalated to

Google has identified three critical vulnerabilities affecting several Netgear smart switch products that, if exploited, give the attacker complete control over the

It is an attack vector now. how they try to influence elections, how they try to steal intellectual property, how they true to seize data, how they try to pursue their intelligence objectives, and therefore the intelligence community really has to be on their guard to ensure that these attackers are not going to be successful. but youre right. we have iraq. we have afghanistan. we have the havana syndrome. we have so many things on the plate of intelligence officers these days, and thats why pre...

Giroir, dr. richard mueller and dr. quay. in this forum with lawmakers what do you want the direction of this forum to be? >> i really want to focus on the designs and capabilities the chinese communist development developed around synthetic biology in the future warfare. im not it was released as an attack vector using biology but they were developing it secretly at the wuhan institute of virology and apparently got loose through an accident that has had -- we have to hold the chinese accountab...

Around, gyroscope of sorts, that would cause the bomb to detonate. that is a level of sophistication that would preclude many people. someone who has experience with these devices and has, i guess, maybe a scientific mind to be able to put that all together. >> so then this package that detona detonated, giving the worker this concussion at the facility, outside san antonio, headed to austin. what do you read into that, anything? >> well, so the first several devices were placed somewhere. this ...

Vis-a-vis the united states for some time. its consistent with other patterns but we would like to know more about who was behind it and what were they seeking to do? >> what about the response in silicon valley, elizabeth? facebook, months and months of denials, resisting pressure from congress. mark warner and others very concerned that zuckerberg, facebook and others were just not responsive enough quickly enough to what was very apparent during the election. >> yeah, its been fascinating. it...

Agreement with china. when the president signed this climate agreement, china becomes the attack vector for a major terrorist effort against the united states. thats a problem. >> it does seem the leadership is split about how much more political capital should they be spending against north korea. should the united states try to drive a wedge through there? >> the chinese are never very happy to be defending hollywood i was just in china. i was really struck with the degree to which they are ju...