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That targeted g-mail users. it prompted the user to open google docs allowing access to contacts. google stopped the attacks in an hour and roughly 1 million accounts for affected. contact information was accessed and used in the attack, but no other information was exposed. lets get a check on cnn money stream this morning. u.s. futures and global markets higher this morning. wall street ended the day lower despite strong earnings. nasdaq is down after two days of record highs and bank stocks...

Welcome back. google says it has disabled that bug that targeted about a million users yesterday. the phishing attack came in the form of e-mail asking users to open a google document. if they clicked, they were asked for permission to their account. allowing the bug to send itself to the users contacts and other parts of the application. google says the attack lasted for about an hour and affected fewer than a tenth of a percent of their users. if you click the link youre activated to google do...

Does that mean? >> theyre right. it is odd. its just not very conveional behavior, don. to have 2800 lookups, i mean, what was going on? it certainly suggests there was an intent to communicate between those two parties. i really dont buy the spam explanation. heres why. if the trump hotel was spending out a spam campaign, it would be going out to maybe hundreds of thousands of people. the argument that these were being detected, they were doing a lookup to determine whether it was valid e-mail ...

This server activity is quote, odd, what do you make of it? what does it mean? >> theyre right, it is odd. its just not very conventional behavior here, don. i mean, to have 2800 lookups for something -- what was going on -- it certainly suggests there was an intent to communicate between those two parties. and i really dont buy the spam explanation and here is why. if the trump hotel was sending out spam campaign material, it would be going out to hundreds of thousands of people. the idea that ...

Hacked. first of all, podesta was not hacked. he gave into a prkszhishing sch as juvenile as the e-mails we all receive about a nigerian prince. >> you think it was his fault? >> yes. >> you believe -- >> who falls for that? a senile grandfather falls for that kind of juvenile -- >> -- because he was the victim of a phishing attack? >> yes, heres the more important point, too. what we keep talking about is i dont know who did the hacking of the dnc. podesta was not hacked. he fell for a scream. ...

As juvenile as the e-mails we all receive about a nigerian prince. >> you think it was his fault? >> yes. >> you believe -- >> who falls for that? a senile grandfather falls for that kind of juvenile -- >> -- because he was the victim of a phishing attack? >> yes, heres the more important point, too. what we keep talking about is i dont know who did the hacking of the dnc. podesta was not hacked. he fell for a scream. the dnc was hacked. who did it? what with do know is what was revealed by the ...

Assessment. but they are less confident on others. to be clear, there is no agreement on russia been the perpetrator of the attacks. >> is it clear whether the hacking activity is continuing? or attempting to continue is this. >> reporter: law enforcement officials telling us at cnn and my colleagues that it is continued. its continued in fact unabaded since the election targeting u.s. political institutions, political parties. that includes the democrat party. there was apparently an unsuccessf...

Raise it by attacking back, doing the same thing they did to us, right, that could be releasing embarrassing information, say the financial holding of vladimir putin or going after critical infrastructure in russia. get unquote, turning the lits off in moscow. trouble with that, don, and this is a concern that the obama administration expressed, that could lead to similar retaliation from russia. we know they have access to our up from structure. is that a path that you want to go down? retaliat...

Really doing the same thing they did to us, right? that could be releasing embarrassing information, say the financial holdings of vladimir putin or going after critical infrastructure in russia. quote/unquote turning the lights off in moscow. this is a concern the obama administration expressed in public. that could lead to similar retaliation from russia. we know russia and other countries have access to our critical infrastructure. is that a path you want to go down? retaliation brings risk. ...

Have required the senior most russian officials approval. it is a top heavy system. that means vladimir putin. since then, confidence has increased. that is because of the sophisticated hacking tools and cyber weapons. the most sophisticated which require vladimir putin to okay the use of the tools. that in addition to other intelligence and human sources leading to that conclusion that putin ordered this attack on the u.s. democratic system. the word they are using it continued unabated since t...