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South korea. military bases within guam are, quote, within striking distance of north korean weapons. a major hacking attack on the servers of south korean banks and broadcasters originated from an ip address in china. north korea is still the prime suspect because they previously used a chinese ip address on hacking attacks of a south korean newspaper. prices on their heads and the u.s. is put iting up the bounty. said to be part of a group linked to al qaeda. both are believed to have planne...

In response to actions by the united nations and other civilized countries to reign in the iranian -- i mean the north korean nuclear capability. >> north korea has been threatening south koreas media for many months. in part because of south korea news reports criticizing the north for using children in festivals as political props. shep? >> shepard: any word at all from north korea on any of this? >> no. but north korea has stayed quiet in previous instances when south korea has come under cyb...

Military unit is believed to be behind a series of hacking attacks on u.s. military contract and businesses in up with of the lambest cyber espy spannage campaigns in american -- espionage campaigns in america. they trace this backbe to a chinese military base where its emanating from. they find out the chinese is messing around with the electric power grid. said for years the chinese are the single most dangerous threat to the united states national security. much more than islam or anything i ...

Only piece. it is no accident that its the peoples liberation army in chinas responsible for their cyber warfare program. i think they understand what it is. whether our administration understands remains to be seen. jenna: it is interesting that you say that. a former fbier was quoted in a recent article, he now works in cybersecurity. if the chinese government was flying planes into our airspace on a regular basis it would be a huge problem and we would have to confront them. but somehow in th...

Exploded. >> felt like an earthquake at first with the building shaking. started coming over here to make sure everything was okay. >> the blast sent debris flying. they think a contractor hit an under ground gas line causing the blast. the white house arwill reveal t plans. the military is behind the massive blast of confidential information of u.s. military and corporate computer. the shocking report from cyber security firm says this building in shanghai where thousands of hacking attacks act...

Concerns at the highest levels about cyber attacks with senior chinese officials within the military and we will continue to do so. this is an important challenge. this is one the president has been working on and urging congress to take action on. >> reporter: we have stressed many times that hacking attacks are transnational and anonymous the chinese ministry said today. determining their origins are difficult and we dont know how the evidence can be ten amp and even though citizens have lost ...

Across the board. cyber warfare is a new area. it doesnt replace the existing areas of threat. it is another one we need to consider. jenna: i want to mention that obnoxious video from north korea. weve seen obnoxious videos from north korea before as part of their propaganda machine. we heard from hacking attacks from china before. this is a little by the new but in general we have. what were seeing, ambassador, more frequency of these types of videos or types of attack and being more brazen. d...

Security firm says this is the building in shanghai where thousands of hacking attacks originated and it could have a chilling effect on our economy. >> what they do with that is impact employment in our country and impact competitive advantage of our companies. >> gretchen: president obama bypassed congress and issued an executive order. $1.6 billion vanished on his watch. now jon corzine may be banned for trading for life. they will move tomorrow to ban the former democratic governor of new ...

Legislation as soon as possible. point emphasized by the white house. >> this is an important challenge, one the president has been working on and urging congress to take action on for quite some time. >> intensity of the cyber assault with the military and the communist party is reaching a point it may impact the relationship between washington and beijing. >> we have raised our concern at the highest level. >> so the president raised it with the president of china? >> in that statement they tr...

Secrets. >> reporter: and today reports-- response, rather, from the chinese ministry we have stressed many times that hacking attacks are trans national and anonymous. determining their origins are extremely difficult we dont know how the evidence in the report can be tenable and the chinese portray themselves as victims of cyber attacks. the new executive order we put on your show last week, megyn, this will go some way to addressing the chinese threat and ramp up the sharing of threat informa...