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China or a lot of different groups. knowing something about hacking, if you dont catch a hacker in the act, its very hard to say who did the hacking. with that being said, ill go along with russia. could have been china. could have been a lot of different groups sf. >> its like david says, he hedges and makes it as vague as possible because he does feel it challenges his legitimacy. but all the intelligence communities came to the same conclusion. theres no doubt about this. its not even a debat...

They have squashed the idea of a big hacker that broke in that got not only write riders data. their ceo was fired this year as well. the winners this year though, they are pretty big. remember that the apple watch came out. about 2015. you had to have your phone with it now you dont have to. so its a cell phone. it also now much longer battery life. and it will now detect whether you have a heart problem coming. and then the other big winners this year is smart home. alexa has really taken off ...

He recently received significant start-up money to build what he calls an open-source project-sharing platform to connect chinese college students with the world. now when you say hacking what is -- uh, what is -- what do you do when you hack? whats the -- whats the intent? >> thomas: actually its -- its -- it starts from mit. if you go to the computer science and artificial intelligence building in mit, it will -- it will show you the definition of hack. its actually a very positive word, but i...

So, dont do your job well, 200 million bucks. next, $26,000 thats how much hackers wanted mourning ins largest county to pay up. they wont get a dime. mac lenberg cyber crooks ransom. believed to be from iran or the ukraine. finally, 20. thats the age of the hacker responsible for the uber data breach that exposed the information of 57 million people, including possibly me. reuters reports of the company paid him 100 grand through a security program so that nobody found out. ains aping well, fro...

Like manya is found their future looks bleak. the individual behind the massive data theft is reportedly a twenty year old man from florida thats according to news agency reuters last month it emerged that the writer hailing company had paid the hacker one hundred thousand dollars to destroy the data of millions of passengers and hundreds of thousands of drivers which he had stolen before the company did not inform regulators at the time the scandal has already led to the departure of two of hoo...

Accused of committing cybercrimes at a college. >> a history professor who teaches in some novel ways and i want to hear about that. >> you are the devil, alex trebek. rob: shes charged with two felony count after illegally accessing emails, she could face years in prison. she once held record for the most consecutive wins by a woman on jeopardy with seven victories. she is a good hacker too. jillian: 5 minutes until the top of the error, takata deadheaded, a mayor under arrest for using disable...

Two of them. both of whom wrote reports. but trials have referees. and in this case, the judge ruled that neither one of those defense experts could testify about tampering. one, said the judge, wasnt sufficiently qualified. the other was brought in too late in the trial. but even if they had testified, there was one question they couldnt answer. if it was a hacker, who was it? >> i can tell you that police had access to it. i can tell you that anybody within wireless range had access to it. >> ...

Terrorism warnings, physical threat, murder for hire, weve got all of that down. the bureau understands that, right? but now were moving into the cyber world so the mere fact that some hacker maybe stat sponsored has tried to target you, is that something that should merit a knock on your door, is that what america wants and what resources are necessary to staff the fbi in order to do that? >> so we think hacking, we think russia, we think putin, so lets now talk about trump and putins phone cal...

But trials have referees. and in this case, the judge ruled that neither one of those defense experts could testify about tampering. one, said the judge, wasnt sufficiently qualified. the other was brought in too late in the trial. but even if they had testified, there was one question they couldnt answer. if there was a hacker, who was it? >> i can tell you that police had access to it. i can tell you that anybody within wireless range had access to it. >> what possible reason would the police ...

In the door? >> jesse: we tip our hats to the people videotapingment chaos. it is it something enjoyable about watching it or judging them. no one wants to wait in line. there is cyber monday. >> it is this wut the violence and the chance you are taking there, is that it is cyber monday and hacker buys a jet ski with the credit card. >> jesse: i got an alert that there is fraud on my card. >> they steal my identity and then send me back notes. can you do better here. couple of late payments. >> ...