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Good morning. today is friday, december 19. im elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. new clues about who is responsible for the massive hack attack against sony. not only north korea, but russia, china, maybe iran, too. and the white house wants to think twice before we react. a live report on that straight ahead for you. after all the fallout in hollywood, could new movies be rated s for sharpton? thats right. al sharpton could have a say over what hits the big screen. >> terrific. and reme...

Attacked is nuclear power plants. so if they succeed in hacking the power plants it would be a very efficient way of threatening our government and achieving their goals. >> should america be prepared for north korea to try to break in to these types of agencies in america? >> translator: of course. even though the u.s. is one of the best prepared nations with u.s. cyber command, cyber attacks are hard to protect yourself from so they have to constantly be vigilant. >> reporter: if south korea i...

Good morning. today is friday, december 19. im elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. the united states may be closer to formally accusing north korea of the hack attack on sony and officially calling it a national security threat. as we learn russia and china and iran may be involved as well. a live report from the white house straight ahead. ill take it from here. all the fallout in hollywood means movies could be getting a new rating. rating s for sharpton. thats right. al sharpton will ha...

This statement out before the presidents news conference at 1:30 so when he was asked he wouldnt have to tap dance around about whether the government knew it was north korea. but im sure now that tees up for him to begin to answer for the administration to begin to answer now what? >> theres no mention of any assistance from any other country which you know there have been some questions. if north korea had assistance >>well, you know what the cyber experts we talked to said they suspected was ...

That were hard coded into the malware. thirdly, they say the tools used in the attack have similarities to a cyber attack in march of last year against south korean banks and media outlets, which they know is carried out by north korea. that last one has been known about for some time. >> right. >> many security analysts have said they see an overlap here between the kind of attack this was and the kind of attack that was carried out against south kor korea. just going on here for the rest of th...

Piece of malware, where this virus came from, i mean it is very obvious it wasnt specific to this job and so -- bill: why are they, are you talking about hundreds of links or thousands or even more than that? givegive me a sense of. >> to be honest it varies per piece of malware. for something like this there shouldnt have been any. possible it was even used for something else all together. bill: why are they blaming north korea? what makes sense to you, vinnie? >> i think that in the event that...

Catherine? what are those details? >> reporter: well, the forensic evidence suggests the final stage of the attack was launched outside north koreas borders, "the new york times" reports a hotel and university were used. this is called in intelligence circles a cutout and creates some plausible deniability. yesterday the president of the homeland security secretary told people the administration wasnt ready to name names. >> the u.s. government is taking this attack very seriously. its an attack...

Conference. heather: "outnumbered" starts right now. see you back here in a bit. ♪ ♪ >> this is "outnumbered." im andrea tantaros, and here with us today harris faulkner, melissa francis is back from our sister network, fox business, actress and fox news contributor stacey dash and todays *oneluckyguy, you know him, you see him on saturdays and sundays on "fox & friends" weekend, clayton morris is here, and youre outnumbered. >> its about time. [laughter] >> its about time. >> what took you ...

Movie theaters, there was a real fear of what might happen if some extremists from any whacko group took this invasion of privacy seriously and wanted to do some serious damage. >> all right, jeremy girard, thanks for your insight. we sure appreciate it. they had the keys to the entire building, thats how one u.s. official describes the access they had to the sony system. thieves apparently commandeered the credentials of top level it executives. >> the u.s. government is taking this attack ve...

Called him, maybe they didnt want to call him because they know what his answer would be. his answer would have been i dont think you should do this in the interest of national security. you shouldnt cave into this kind of hack attack. that may be one reason they didnt do it. i think this is a president who is energized and in many ways -- its been no secret to anybody in washington that he was unhappy with the kind of lead bracelets he had to wear during the campaign and he felt like he had to ...