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We heard from a microsoft executive and this is what he said. >> earlier this year we did discover that a fake microsoft domain has been established as a landing page for fishing attack and we saw meta data directed on three candidates who are all standing in the midterm elections. >> it would seem that we are fighting a losing battle. >> well, i may characterize it as a symmetrical warfare. the defense system needs to be fi sophisticated. part of the reason we got robust service providers is th...

Well in the background to this fishing attack and then this leak, this document dump. whats significant is and you pointed it out, the macron campaign had to deal with this, had to put out a statement, a fairly long statement fairly detailed and release it four minutes to midnight because they didnt want to go over it seems that midnight boundary and then get themselves in trouble with the law and there were several media organizations in this country that started to talk about it and then the i...

Well in the background to this fishing attack and then this leak, this document dump. whats significant is and you pointed it out, the macron campaign had to deal with this, had to put out a statement, a fairly long statement fairly detailed and release it four minutes to midnight because they didnt want to go over it seems that midnight boundary and then get themselves in trouble with the law and there were several media organizations in this country that started to talk about it and then the i...

Grabbing a female body part but the president does afford some respect. >> because the flip side of the argument is what if this was said about a democratic president and a republican comedian. imagine the outrage. you might have corporations and sponsors pulling their ads. >> its all about money. >> a bit of a double standard but his ratings are up and people seem to like it. >> police investigators said a deadly incident at an indoor auto auction appears to be a tragic accident. an suv suddenl...

Guessing motive is not what our intelligence agencies do. >> sure it is. >> perhaps they can say that the dnc was hacked. first of all, podesta was not hacked. he gave into a fishing scheme that was as juveniles as the e-mails we receive about a nigerian prince. >> you think it was his fault. >> yes. who falls for that? what kind of a senile grandfather falls for that -- >> you believe john podesta is a seen nile grandfather because he was the victim of a fishing attack? >> yes, but heres the mo...

Account noticed a fishing attack, flagged it, and one of them responded by saying, this is a legitimate e-mail, john needs to change his pass word immediately. now, the aide later said he knew it was a fishing e-mail and he meant to write illegitimate, not legitimate. it is shocking, such a small error could have huge repercussions. how often does something like this happen? >> most hacks today, don, actually begin with an e-mail. it is called social engineering, and what this attack method is, ...

>> a very fateful moment in that moment when john podesta and a staffer access to his e-mail account changed his password. there were a decade worth of podesta e-mails, approximately 60,000 e-mails transferred to these cyber hackers, and that was the reason we then learned about all of hillary clintons speeches, that we got all of the back and forth between various campaign aides and criticism of even of hillary. it was months worth of embarrassing moments for hillary clinton in the final months...

Commend the ceo came out right away and said that the credit card information has been stolen. they did say they resolved the issue. unfortunately, the issue may have been the hole may have been plugged but the issue is not resolved. right? so unless they have captured the perpetrator and have all of your credit card information back, which they havent said they do. had 0 million people that shopped in-store at the checkout counter your information has been stolen. so what happened most-likely i...

International were completely stopped for a while. may be unclear who people will blame for these delays but wont take them long to blame somebody. bret? >> bret: a bit of a scare today at the associated press twitter account. what happened? >> shortly before the briefing. somebody hacked into the aps twitter account and said there had been two explosions at the white house and president obama was injured. the dow industrials fell 140 points before julie pace told press secretary jay carney what...

Concerned about that? >> brian: this is it outrageous >> steve: absolute lie. >> gretchen: we are concerned and it is our first head line. >> brian: no, we are concerned but the people who allowed it to happen. >> gretchen: well find out more information. >> brian: $3 million, thats how much money attorneys for whistle white house staffer opened an blowers donated to the presidents reelection campaign e-mail that was a fishing as the obama administration cracks down on corporate fraud. attack an...