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Hear and it hear playstation and oh, thats just those gamers. thats certainly not the case. when do we know about the possibility and how many possible credit card numbers were actually stolen? >> sony has been on record saying -- i give them credit card for at least coming forward and saying we did get breached and dont know if credit card data was stolen. take precaution. >> a lot of people said they were zblat late in terms of making that known. i also think, look, when you are doing forensic...

Sites who spoke to the corrupts semi official news agency. this worm is called stars and follows a destructive cyberattack last year called stuxnet. sam is a former signals intelligence official and a cybersecurity expert. could this particular virus disable any kind of a nuclear program? >> dont know at this point. i dont know anyone whos done real forensics on this. heres what i would say. it probably speaks to an emerging class of problem we call industrial control system problems, the abilit...

Happened in less than a year, from the official in charge of defending the nuclear sites. it follows a destructive signal intelligence official. could this particular virus. >> dont know at this point. i dont know anyone that has done a real forensics. it probably speaks to an emerging class of problem that we call industrial control system problems, the ability to get into an embedded system that controls a turbine that controls a centerfuge and an engine. >> reporter: this attack, like the vir...

How would he know to target this victim and why? >> well, i dont know if hes actually the offender, but i will tell you the offender had to be slightly educated in that he used a ruse. that tells us he has a level of sophistication, that he understands he needs to assess the situation before he just barges in. he knocked on the door, asked to use the phone to assess her vulnerability, her security awareness, and probably also to determine if there was anybody else in the place. >> have you ever ...

Just setting up, trying to set off a bomb in a shopping mall. the fbi, along with local law enforcement, have been searching around the clock. we know theyve been questioning guy in the middle of the night trying to get to this guy and releasing photos and video clips as theyve been able to verify this was their suspect. and now they have this photo, obviously from the criminal justice system. dont know how they got this photo and linked it to his name. they did send the device to the fbi crime ...

Tall, some have said hes good looking. how would he know to target this victim and why? >> well, i dont know if hes actually the offender, but i will tell you the offender had to be slightly educated in that he used a ruse. that tells us he has a level of sophistication, that he understands he needs to assess the situation before he just barges in. he knocked on the door, asked to use the phone to assess her vulnerability, her security awareness, and probably also to determine if there was anybo...

Same equipment that failed on the deep water horizon. we are issuing drilling permits to drilling companies with the same equipment that failed so badly a year ago today. >> you know, when ken salazar said its a work in progress, i knew we were in a world of trouble. thats why i keep going back to that quote. are we still using the same blow-out preventers? im amazed the government is saying yeah, yeah, yeah, keep using the same thing. >> its the same. >> clearly, the system is better because of...

>> greta: 125 billion dollars, the last two weeks house and senate fighting over 38 billion dollars this is 125 billion dollar just for fiscal year 2010. have we recovered any of this money? >> very little. by the time you go and do the forensics often it is very difficult. even when you go to do it, sometimes it ends up being an agreed on amount less. more importantly, health care providers and others are in fact in doubt as to whether or not they are billing correctly regularly. can we do it b...

>> $125 billion. the last two week the congress and the senate, they found $38 billion. this is $125 billion just for fiscal year 2010. have we recovered any of this money? >> very little. the fact is that by the time you go and do the forensics, often its very difficult. and even when you go to do it, sometimes it ends up being an agreed on amount less. but more importantly, healthcare providers and others are in fact in doubt as to whether they are billing correctly regularly. can we do it bet...

Taxpayers money. there are no built-in incentives to have these savings. its a change that has to happen. we have to have screws in the way agencies get money we have to find ways for them to invest in less wasteful spending and use the money to invest again in better forensics and so on. right now thats a problem government wide. >> its not just a problem, its a crisis. its improper payments. its an absolute unadult rated crisis going on. its taking the money of taxpayers and throwing it away a...