earlier today that made a interesting point. it gets him to go and be seen in other media outlets, and he said he wants the president to go everywhere. it would be great to have the president answering these questions too, but the issue is that he came home from the summit with the vladimir putin and was way more critical of the press and he was the russian president who we found out last week directed, according to the special counsel this massive hacking attack on our democracy. when the president attacks the media, the media demands answers. i see both sides. that is the nature of the press. white house briefing room. harris: do you think that it helps to have this relationship? because there is an argument that says, not about the specific incident, but just in terms of him being all over the media that he is a media star, and it ultimately helps him. and i think that news organizations, they have a lot to think the president for the end of the day. harris: he is right abou
threat scene as you see it? i believe it does. you re also going to see a short disconnect between what the department of defense feels are the global threats. the white house agrees that china itself is probably our largest strategic adversary. i think underground you certainly see this reflected in some of the commentary you hear from the national security staff. that russia is a secondary threat. certainly when the president is directing that the national security apparatus ignore the russia hacking attack that occurred in 2016. you re going to have that disconnect. but the russian armed forces are increasing in quality. there are areas of operation certainly in the middle east. and china is making great strides in essentially becoming the power in the asia pacific region. so i think the increase of navy ships from 286 to 300 i believe it s 326, is going to be one of those points of where the
outlets. that spy agency was able to infiltrate the russian hacking group accused of meddling in the presidential election. they report it may have been the dutch who alerted the u.s. to the meddling. cnn international correspondent with the details. reporter: well, here s what nos and media from the netherlands reported. in 2014, dutch intelligence had infiltrated a computer inside the university building located near moscow s red square, and, apparently, they struck at the heart of cozy bear. this is one of two russian hacking groups believed to be responsible for the hacking attack on the u.s. democratic national committee. now, for about a year, they were able to monitor not only this computer, but they also gained access to a security camera in the hallway, so they could watch as up to ten people at a time came in to access the cozy bear computers including, and this is the important part, members of russia s secret service. now, this went on for more than
uber is facing more allegations. attorney general of massachusetts looking into how okay uber handled a hacking attack last year. 57 million affected. 7 million here in the united states. the data breach included addresses and phone yubnumbers. the existence of the breach was first reported by bloomberg tuesday. uber s new ceo also acknowledged the breach in a blog post. he promised the company was taking steps to address the issue and assured customers there s been no evidence that the data has been misused. more on this, pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro joins me. good to see you. thank you for being with us. we know places get hacked, don t like they do. people get upset when they find out a economy lost their information, but why does there ales seem to be a second layer of delay between when companies
pneumonia. and of your highly connected and then that was a problem what happened was we had an external hacking attack to protect our data the systems had to be shut down with that the complete system was switched off and our capacity was significantly reduced fees in the woods here digital blackmail always follows the same principle. it happens when someone opens a manipulated attachment when surfing a fake website when clicking on a bad link by making such a wrong click malware. is activated which then spreads undetected in the system disguised as a harmless code the trojan grabs all the data and encrypts it nothing can be done anymore the trojan has taken over the computer. the victim is given a choice. either the data is destroyed forever or