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Alone and reminiscent of similar troubles that north korea was having with some of its rocket test as few years ago. some suspected at the time u.s. interference. experts suspect the iranians were trying to test a two-stage liquid fuel rocket. the rocket is used to launch satellites, which use the same technology as ballistic missiles, some of which are banned by current u.n. sanctions. >> what have you lerntd -- learned about the u.s. cyber attack first reported by "the new york times"? >> ther...

Put these cyber weapon into the grid and why provoke russia? >> there is a military interests in holding certain targets at risk. russia has been extremely aggressive and for years dating back to 2012. one of the difference is again if the reporting is accurate we would be targeting what is civilian infrastructure. you have military targets but you also have civilian infrastructure. russia energy infrastructure, their power grid is massive. we are talking about half a million substations and 500...

You know, i think if theres something in that realm to be done, i think it needs to be some kind of federal initiative. i brought this with me on purpose. this is a potential cyber weapon. it can be hacked into. it can be marshalled as a bot net, and used to do cyber attacks. every child ten years and older has one of those. none of those kids have any training in cyber security and basic cyber hygiene. thats a big problem. we are so naive, using technology were not aware how it can be abused, m...

Market of getting them back, but they wanted to know what was out there missing out there in the wild and what to worry about because they didnt know exactly what had gotten out, so they find this russian who says, i can give you everything, and they said, great we can unravel the mystery, but the russian says, but we have to include this material on president trump and i want to throw it in there and the americans did want that. they made it clear to the russian, that we want the cyberer weapon...

There or at least put pressure on the regime. the tough talk and the sort of mysterious alugsz to possible invasion are the last thing thats going to advance that. >> all right. thanks for being part of the conversation this morning. >> thank you. >> thanks. hughesing fire and fury to respond to the north korean threat, well, thats the verbiage president trump is using. but next another possibility. how effect active could a cyber weapon be? plus, char lotsville, virginia, bracing for a whit...

It is pretty clear that there was a major operation by russia. and you had president putin directing it. that information that i think is crucial and probably very worrisome here in the kremlin is they had source, some type of source, right at the inner workings of the kremlin telling them that. and the second part that i think the russians will pick up on, and they are, is that planting these cyber weapon, you could call them, inside the russian network, that could be used in the future. those ...

He says they are trumped up. so what he has been doing -- and hes not allowed, by the way, to appear on state television either. what hes been doing is a guerilla online campaign, using youtube to expose some of the fabulous wealth and fortunes that some members of the russian elite, those who are part of or in the orbit of the kremlin, have been able to amass for themselves. well see what happens after this latest chaos in the streets here in russia to mr. navalny. >> all right, richard, good t...

These exploits, and when they are, that theyre keeping them secure. >> he added that microsoft wants a digital geneva convention for cyber weapons. so, imagine, you know, governments can see these vulnerabilities in, you know, operating systems are the global economy, basically, has them, sees them, could use them if they wanted. maybe dont. theyre just stockpiling it as a cyber weapon, but then its hacked or leaked and then its out there. >> we still dont know if it was hacked or leaked by the ...

Unprecedented in its sheer size, hitting dozens of countries around the world. the victims include fedex in the u.s. and many hospitals in great britain. security experts racing to contain the fallout. bryan llenas joins us live from our new york city newsroom with more details. >> reporter: hi, kelly. hackers used a microsoft windows flaw to launch what appears to be the largest cyber attack of its kind in history on friday. the flaw was leaked online, it was secretly used as a cyber weapon by ...

Security experts racing to contain the fallout. we have brian in our video with the latest. >> hackers use microsoft windows flaw to launch what appears to be the largest cyber attack of this kind in history on friday. the leaked flaw was once secretly used as a cyber weapon by the us national security agency. hackers exploited this method to infect computers with iran somewhere through spam e-mail or attachments that iran somewhere launched your computer holding your data hostage in the user mu...