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Very likely. and that is what were seeing here. we saw russian officials, for weeks on end, saying that the american warnings about the innovation -- the false information was coming from moscow. >> clint, i want to ask, you theres an area that you talked about that we have talked about tonight. and that is cyber warfare. we have seen those type of attacks on ukraine in the past. we are expecting that they are either on there were now. some of been reported. but russia has the capability to do a...

Underestimate the cyber power the isolated nation of north korea can wield. >> people are always surprised because north korea is such a medieval society in many ways and yet have sophisticated high-tech capability to hack. the way they built it, also the way they at the same time are on the press pes of building an advanced nuclear capability. >> translator: the cyber war that started and no other country can attack north korea because there is no point. >> reporter: a former colonel in the nor...

Ability to hack. the way they built that is the same way theyre on the precipice of a nuclear capability. >> the cyber war has started and no other country can attack north korea because theres no point. >> hes a former colonel in the north korean military who defected before kim jong-un took power. he worked side by side with the hacking unit, 121. >> only the brightest students get to become hackers. they learn everything about the internet and then they work in the cyber research center which...

User name and password and get into my account and help them in other attacks. but in this scenario, what they want to do is infect my machine. >> reporter: according to the magazine, they physically intercept computers being delivered to plant spay wear. and ill fill trait offices to and usb plugs.n monitor cables - the agency was concerned enough about the connecting cables on edward snow deposits computers that it removed them after he leaked nsa documents. according to the magazine, this nsa...

Like linkedin or facebook. it looks like a real page but is a fake one controlled by the nsa. >> this is a dummy facebook page. when you go there, what does the nsa want to find out? >> one would be to simply intercept and sniff your traffic. for example, i would be logging into this page and they would be able to see now they have my user name and password. but in this particular scenario, what they really want to do is infect my machine. >> reporter: the unit doesnt do just remote hacking. acc...

So we are entirely dependent on what is their motive. what can they do with that access. right now weve seen very significant cyber espionage over a decade stealing our trade secrets, stealing our negotiation strategies, our blueprints. that is all quietly gone out the door. what happens if the motives change? and there are examples where the motives have changed. we have the situation of the financial services sector suffering these distributed denial of service attacks. it seems fairly benign ...

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