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After 9/11, to bring together all those streams of intelligence from all the various agencies in one place to, in effect, be the early warning system for terror attacks, potential terror attacks on the soil, on u.s. soil. we were inside the operations center there. this is a 24-7 of course as it would have to be operation where theyre hearing these streams all the time. theyre watching the news as well, seeing whats happening. so they could immediately respond but also prevent. you know, a big p...

Theres a reason why we should be concerned because it shows that the russians are incredibly sophisticated and more importantly incredibly aggressive. >> lets talk about that. lets talk about sophisticated. i understand this is being called one of the most sophisticated attacks ever but done by what seems like one of the most primitive methods right now. its a phishing expedition. you send a hoax e-mail and get someone to open it and a whole world of hurt comes out on you. thats how people down ...

Take new action to guard against e-mail fraud. a string of hoax e-mail went out this week announcing death of several lawmakers. they were fake. but they looked like real e-mails and they used addresses that seemed valid. now the senate sergeant of arms a vowing to make sure it never happens again. joining me now, a former federal prosecutor and founder of sfp blue. online security consulting company. great to see you. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. the big question is it ...

Forcing us to confirm to take advantage of it, too." the hoax e-mail said the senators harry reid, dianne feinstein, pat leahy and frank lautenberg died of cancer. several news organizations received them, including the "new york times." the e-mail had a senate.gov tag so they appeared to come from the senate office. thats known as "spoofing" when you get e-mail disguising himself as another sender. theyve implemented s.p.f., sender policy framework technology to prevent further forgeries. its a...

Because leahy was and is very much alive. here he was days before the e-mail went out presiding over elena kagans confirmation hearings. >> was there any sons of this is just so ridiculous or was there a serious concern about this? >> senator leahy himself took this in good spirts. >> after the hoax e-mail about his boss, there were others. new jerseys frank lautenberg, californias dianne feinstein, even the leader of the senate, harry reid. >> the bigger question is, how could someone apparentl...