Opm Attack News Today

This culture is very educational for people. But i think we need to stop believing victims, we need to start believing the women. And i think those are strong words that the white house would probably take issue with. So that is why you are here. Thank you all. That does it for us. Mtp daily starts right now. Hi, chuck. Thank you for all of that. If it is tuesday, russia could be meddling right now. Is anybody in the u. S. Government watching . Tonight the nations intelligence chiefs say russia ...

Cyber. >> exactly. >> it came through even, i remember president obama after the sony hit with north korea. they were having a large debate, helene, and you covered a lot of that, about how to retaliate, they knew they needed to but they werent sure how to do it. >> when it comes to retaliating against this regime, we dont know how to handle it. but we have done plenty of cyber stuff on iran. its why north korea to this day as not achieved its nuclear ambitions is because of our cyber program. s...

Have got to do immediately. pete: colonel, where was the outrage on previous attacks? >> right, where was it. pete: you mentioned the opm attack in june of 2015. 21 million social security numbers stolen likely from china they didnt say necessarily. we have two pages we could show. >> right. pete: why did this choose in this instance to expel diplomats and say now its time to fight back in other instances presumably things that went on behind the scenes but it didnt seem to be as urgent? >> well...

Again, then of course north koreas leader kim john u.n. can say i will -- kim jong un can say i can do whatever i want because there will be no consequence. >> all those other incidents i think you laid out if my memory is correct are after secretary clinton was no longer secretary of state. i dont know if can you lay those at her feet or not. >> well, i dont think thats true of ukraine. i dont think thats true of the chinese opm attack. i dont think its true of iran, for example hacking into ou...

With other information. but that said theres also just stuff in there thats personal. i mean, it has the social security number with brennans wife. wikileaks ive dealt with them for a number of years they do this as a got you kind of thing. public service for putting out a security number of a government official spouse? you cant see that. theres a gratuitous factor to this as well. >> the concern just based on the information im hearing theres deep concern that the message it sends to governmen...

Hes now president of operations and training at iron net cyber security. welcome to "meet the press." >> thanks very much. >> let me ask you this. what does the opm hack say about cyber security in america today? >> i think what this says is that we havent all realized were past the wake-up call stage. the wake-up call has occurred. everybody in the neighborhood -- >> how many times is the wake-up call? >> exactly. the problem is people are stumbling around in the dark looking for the light swit...

And training at iron net cyber security. welcome to "meet the press." >> thanks very much. >> let me ask you this. what does the opm hack say about cyber security in america today? >> i think what this says is that we havent all realized were past the wake-up call stage. the wake-up call has occurred. everybody in the neighborhood -- >> how many times is the wake-up call? >> exactly. the problem is people are stumbling around in the dark looking for the light switch and theres been a guy hiding ...

Incidents in 2014 than the year before. >> i think its pretty clear that the attackers are winning. and that the defenders are unfortunately lagging behind. this is what our survey data tells us is that slowly spend increases, slowly awareness increases. but so much needs to be done to deal with this very significant issue. >> reporter: to address this some cyber experts are calling for better coordination between businesses and between the private sector and the government. >> if you could simp...