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How long i would like to be in this business. are there days when you think, well, what am i doing? yeah, but theres a lot more days saying, you know, the mission here is critical, and to be able to be a part of it, to be able to feel like youre giving something back to your country, it is a reward. >> senior official at microsoft says candidates in the 2018 midterms have come under attack from abroad. >> earlier this year we did discover that a fake microsoft domain had been established as the ...

Discovered that a fake domain used to launch phishing attacks on three candidates running in this years election has been uncovered. national political reporter mike memali joins us from aspen with more. mike? >> reporter: yeah, i have to say this landed as somewhat of a mini bombshell here during one of the panel sessions here. this was focused on election security issues. we heard from both corporate and government leaders. we had just heard from an assistant homeland security secretary who sa...

>> as you were going through that, it is amazing. because it is really complicated, dana. and it is a lot. and not only complicated, it is extremely serious and you have to wonder why the president may not be taking it seriously still calling it a witch hunt even after rod rosenstein briefed him. we remember that clip of donald trump from july of 2016, russia if your listening. what were learning in the indictment is the russians were listening on the same day they started the spear phishing att...

Internet traffic. if you send an e-mail from chicago and 20 minutes later from tokyo, it should be flagged. >> use the cloud. this is the capability you have protecting your information when it sits in the cloud. >> reporter: the best way to defeat real life armys of hackers is for good hackers to find the vulnerabilities first. >> we are doing something thats fairly noisy. >> reporter: thats the red teams job -- analyzing billions of lines of software code for the one mistake that could let hac...

The hackers and move fast to of patch the security hole. >> we actually saw everything he did. >> hackers often get in by guessing someones pass word or using phishing attacks, luring you to click on an e-mail that looks general git but contains a soft ware bug. to show me, they set up an account. >> sees trying to direct me to a web link. >> correct. >> it looks like a link to a politico story. but look closely, politico is misspelled. would i have noticed if i were speed reading my e-mails? >>...

Reporter fired because it was a reporter that outed her. >> greg: werent they basically, metaphorically, in bed together from the start? >> juan: yeah. you have a sans now saluting her julian assange saying this information was going to the public. its important saying what the documents allegedly said was that the russians had fear phishing attacks on local election offices in the country with the intent of disabling the election machines. this is important information. >> greg: you know what p...

Reporter fired because it was a reporter that outed her. >> greg: werent they basically, metaphorically, in bed together from the start? >> juan: yeah. you have a sans now saluting her julian assange saying this information was going to the public. its important saying what the documents allegedly said was that the russians had fear phishing attacks on local election offices in the country with the intent of disabling the election machines. this is important information. >> greg: you know what p...

So far, america has avoided the worst effects of the attack. what are your files at risk? they might be. a cyber security expert and a senior fellow at the center for digital government, he joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. because you bet, tucker. >> tucker: how bad was this and why hasnt the united states been affected in the way other countries happen? >> number one, compared to the huge service attack, this is orders of magnitude worse than that. it hit 150 countries, like you said,...

Worst effects of the attack. what are your files at risk? they might be. a cyber security expert and a senior fellow at the center for digital government, he joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. because you bet, tucker. >> tucker: how bad was this and why hasnt the united states been affected in the way other countries happen? >> number one, compared to the huge service attack, this is orders of magnitude worse than that. it hit 150 countries, like you said, hundreds of thousands of comput...

Information, this nine gigabytes of information from the campaign and released it tonight, that were not sure. but we know that the campaign was under attack for about a month starting in mid-march and apparently ending a month after that by this russian-backed group. >> we know the campaign saying tonight in their statement that these documents that have been dumped tonight that have been posed online appear to have been stolen several weeks ago so that would fit that time frame. >> reporter: t...