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Helping protect military websites and the homeland security department is involved in protecting other government websites. >> right. >> but, you know, companies have to protect themselves and the government can only do so much. >> and thats a big factor and that is that ultimately all of these companies are private companies. they are responsible for knowing who is in their system. many of them pay tens of millions of dollars a year not just on the perimeter but inside monitoring to see who is ...

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Motion picture association of america. he says, among other things, that this is confirmation north korea of what we suspected to be the case. this is about the fact that criminals were able to hack in and steal what has now been identified as many times the volume of all the printed material in the library of congress. thats all the printed material in the library of congress and threaten the livelihoods of thousands of americans who work in the film and television industry as well as the milli...

And then it goes on to say we want everything taken down from every website immediately. i believe in some cases sony took the trailer that were seeing down from youtube but there are a lot of other copies out there and they are basically ratcheting this up one new level and they are saying we have a new demand. it goes from ugly to uglier. >> lori, the threat that is out there, the continued threat of what we may likely see, how significant is it? because one of the big issues is now the hacker...

Now that weve had this particular attack, people are saying, whoa, we are really much worse off than they thought. how bad is it? because its not just state actors. >> you know, this for some reason was so deeply personal. its another day, another hack. were on the phone talking to different people because they tl have been so many hacks in the last year. you get hack fatigue and dont realize how bad it is. we are now looking at sony as a victim on a whole new level and i think we talk about the...

Idea that a hack similar to could be sold -- >> you mean the ability to do it? >> the ability to do it could be sold online. anyone could go and click "buy" and be able to carry out this attack and they dont have to be as sophisticated. thats something that is very, very scary. he said much of the material that went into this could have been bought for about $500 online, which is pretty remarkable. >> unreal. brian? >> i was speaking to an executive at sony who wants everybody to know, we are st...

Message. and thats unprecedented. >> hacking and holding hostage and then blackmailing essential sl ly is what they did. and one other point, to look at all of this, the movie industry is so relatable. the fact that somebody would go almost to war over a movie that perhaps may not have even done that well at the box office? >> it was going to. >> it is rather remarkable that this is north koreas issue. there simply are not enough people -- this is the growth industry. this is the growth industry...

Looking to sue sony because they are saying that sony did not do enough to protect their personal information. could they argue negligence, for example? >> they could absolutely argue negligence. negligence requires that someones standard -- they cut below the standard of care in securing this information. one way to show that someones behavior was negligent was showing that before this happened the company was aware that this was a problem. in lawsuits weve already seen filed, there is document...

That i have right now has more computer power than the lunar module that landed on the moon. so technology is getting so advanced and so sophisticated that some kid in a basement in the ukraine or russia has capacity that scientists didnt even have 15 years ago and we cant keep up. i dont think the fbi is keeping up with it either because its moving too fast. >> danny, the smaller issue is, this movie was supposed to be released. could sony be -- they say i was promised a cut. what happens then?...

To be censored by north korea. >> its like changing the front door look to your house. its not going to make a difference. i want to bring in cnn investigator chris frates and jim sciutto. jim, tell me about the statement you received from the justice department. >> it says "we follow the facts and evidence wherever they lead to allow the key boards that threaten our people." "we will continue to protect and defend our nation from the asymmetric threats posed through cyberspac cyberspace cybersp...