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This all falls on kim jong-uns 33rd birthday. will ripley is live from north korea, from pyongyang. will, whats the latest? >> reporter: alisyn, we know in south korea they are now beefing up cyber defenses, anticipating retaliation on the cyber front from north korea which has been suspected of major hacking attacks in the past. the pyongyangs regime biggest active aggression or perceived active aggression by much of the outside world happened when the supreme leader kim jong-un signed the orde...

Prefox debate poll. well find out who is in our top ten on sunday morning. well have dr. ben carson. ill have the chairman of the republican party, chairman of the democratic party. its a super bowl preview show right? >> were going to cleveland. >> hes going to read out loud "the mouse that ate the cookie." >> gene thank you as well. we greatly appreciate you being here. >> coming up the cincinnati police officer charged with murdering an unarmed motorist faces a judge as new video emerges from...

Rhetoric. >> you mention the chatter, isis is using social media to recruit sympathizers. how do the fbi and other agencies track that activity? >> we have intelligence activity in the digital sphere. what is happening, and its classified and difficult to know to what degree were able to penetrate some of these dark places on the internet. as encryption has improved its become difficult to go into the places that are highly incrypted by the u.s. government. you see even in the hacking attacks th...

>> this concern about individuals within the united states increasingly resonated, if you will with the ideology of isil and the idea of just acting violently indiscriminately is clearly of great concern. its a trend that things would suggest is increasing not decreasing. >> reporter: theres one key issue about isis that necessarily you dont have to have these attackers speaking to isis leadership. they can simply be inspired and act independently, the lone wolf if you like. i should point out t...

The quote. reckless and words indeed like a monkey in a tropical forest. you can see they dont hold back with their own propaganda. >> no admission they were behind the hacking attacks on sony. what are they saying about their internet problems in north korea? >> reporter: well they blame the united states for the instability of their internet. you heard senator graham that china is somehow involved. there is a connection that north korea relies on china for internet. that is the case. we have s...

Has been happening, all that skullduggery and secrecy and drama you wouldnt believe if it was in a book, were told president obamas participating in daily meetings with intelligence diplomatic law enforcement and military officials on another supersecret issue of national security intrigue. and this one concerns north korea. last night we reported that anonymous u.s. government sources were letting it be known that the government had concluded that north korea, as a state entity, was behind the ...

Reporter, they can turn off the lights at "the new york times" headquarters. this could escalate. sony is just the first, unless the obama administration imposes costs on north korea and china as well. these hackers were probably in the city in china, and clearly this is implication of beijing in north koreas hacking attacks. >> maybe you could have hackers that dont like a certain kind of movie or actor or actress, say we dont want that actor working, who knows what can happen. it is such a wei...

Taking steps to normalize relations. they plan to open embassies in one anothers capitals. barack obama says hell leez long-standing trade restricts and both exchanging prisoners. 90 minutes from now vladimir putin will hold his annual news conference. well cover it live on cnn international. hes expected to face questions on their struggling economy. the ruble has been in free fall but stabilized wednesday after moscow unveiled a package to help banks. the u.s. is pointing the finger at nor...

United states and all around the world. >> oous aide worker alan gross is back in the u.s. after spending the past five years in a cuban prison. he was jailed for allegedly trying to bring the internet to cuban dissidents. his release is part of a plan by the u.s. and cuba to slowly begin to normalize relations after 50 years of cold war tensions. >> the u.s. released three cubans, part of a group originally known as the cuban five. they were arrested in miami in 1998. convicted in 2001 for spyi...

>> it shouldnt bother you. getting a receipt via e-mail probably is not a risk. but, when we, as consumers go into bricks and mortar and use our credit card, we assume they are secure. unfortunately, hacking the companies is far too easy. you mentioned earlier in the program, when companies hire us to do what we call a penetration test, which is an ethical hacking exercise, we have 100% success rate over the last decade. that goes to show that companies out there need to innovate new products an...