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Cyber security experts are tracking a troubling surge in ransomware attacks against mortgage loan providers. Financial institutions face attacks each week, but there are ways to boost your security.

Cyber security experts are tracking a troubling surge in ransomware attacks against mortgage loan providers. Financial institutions face attacks each week, but there are ways to boost your security.

Technology. the study claims that hackers have breached u.s. navy contractors and some u.s. universities. >> we have seen a huge increase in chinese government activity related to this type of theft. if theyre saying it came from china, probably a lot of great evidence to support it. >> some of the universities mentioned say theyre aware of the hack attempts and say theyre cooperating with the government, trace. >> eric, what are we hearing from the navy about this? >> the navy says they recogni...

Can you say in one respect you want to move on in order to help establish a good relationship with russia, but at the same time, you say something like that, you know, it is hard to move on, especially when you have ongoing probes involved in the intelligence community and you have the president of the united states trying to undermine any of those findings. >> well, youre right, it would be difficult under the best of circumstances, the very best possible choice of words by president trump. but...

Listen to this interview on abc this morning. >> you call it a cold war? maybe even worse taking into account actions of the present presidential administration. >> worse than the cold war? >> of course. of course. ive been just about this illegal actions against washington and new york about extraditing the russian d diplomats and more. >> shep, russia is calling the allegations fake news. >> thank you. lea gabrielle, appreciate it. theres word that the c.i.a. can disguise their hack attempts o...

Going after isis? >> its beautiful. i like it. >> i will tell you who does talk about this with the "wall street journal." we talk to business leaders. business leaders are very worried. almost obsessed about this topic. >> j.p. morgan, for example, has spent about a billion dollars on cyber security. hasnt done them a whole lot of good. >> all of us work at media companies that are also panicked about this. >> absolutely. >> not just the media companies the. government -- the pentagon has had h...

What do you make of anonymous going after isis? >> its beautiful. i like it. >> i will tell you who does talk about this with the "wall street journal." we talk to business leaders. business leaders are very worried. almost obsessed about this topic. >> j.p. morgan, for example, has spent about a billion dollars on cyber security. hasnt done them a whole lot of good. >> all of us work at media companies that are also panicked about this. >> absolutely. >> not just the media companies the. govern...

>> its beautiful. i like it. >> i will tell you who does talk about this is "the wall street journal." we talk to business leaders. business leaders are very worried. almost obsessed about this topic. >> jpmorgan, for example, has spent about a billion dollars on cyber security. hasnt done them a whole lot of good. >> all of us work at media companies that are also panicked about this. >> absolutely. >> not just the media companies the. government -- the pentagon has had hack attempts and theyve...

Lets get to christine roamens, in for michaela. north koreas internet trying to stay online. it was knocked online for nine hours. american officials wont confirm or deny if the u.s. was involved. but the timing of this mysterious outage is notable. just after the major hack on sony. cnn has learned that the pentagon is beefing up its cyberdefense to guard against future hack attempts by the regime. rattled nerves in france after the second car attack on pedestrians in to days. 11 people injur...

Listen to this. >> all of us have to anticipate occasionally there are going to be breaches like this, but we cant start changing our patterns of behavior, any more than we stop going to a football game because there might be the possibility of a terrorist attack, any more than boston didnt run its marathon this year because of the possibility that somebody might try to cause harm. >> i mean, is this the new normal that americans are going to have to live with? whats the appropriate response to ...