Cyber Counterattack News Today

Especially when you take a passive, weak approach theyre going to push. and we saw that over the last six years. we saw it in crimea, we saw it in ukraine, we saw it in syria and across the middle east. so it doesnt surprise me that putin thought that he could not only attack the presidential election, but attack the very heart of our democracy and get away with it. and it turns out that when tough options were put on president obamas desk including cyber counterattack in the russian infrastruct...

Pyongyang not giving up on its fiery rhetoric saying, our toughest counteraction will be boldly taken against the white house, the pentagon and the whole u.s. mainland, the cesspool of terrorism. there are more u.s. options such as more sanctions and putting north korea back on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism. here at the pentagon, the big priority tonight is on making sure all the defensive measures are in place so u.s. computer systems, the classified military network, essentially, ...

Obama said there will be a response for the hack attack that prompted sony to pull its movie "the interview" from theaters. >> they caused a lot of damage. and we will respond. we will respond proportionally and well respond in a place and time and manner that we choose. >> reporter: the president declined to specify whether that response would come in the form of sanctions or even a u.s. cyber counterattack. but he echoed the complaints from hollywood to washington that sony created a bad prece...