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The massive cyber attack against yahoo exposing hundreds of millions of users. Pam cook has more on the announcement that we brought you on mornings on 2. Pam. Yes. I have been watching it down in the news room. This is one of the largest cyber intrusions in u. S. History. They are tying it to russian spies. Just moments ago the fbi executive assistant director announced the indictment of four people in connection to that huge cyber attack at yahoo that affected 500 million of its users. They sa...

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Exercises with then any other nation in the capacity for good cyber part of, if you thought about someone you would want is a cyber partner, india would be a fantastic cyber partner. There is a lot in that space. Well be caring for that discussion in that hearing room in a matter of minutes. But jamal ill take a few questions. [applause]. Let me start im going to cheat a column my boss, because since i know this is dear to his heart, he and i fight about this all the time. First, that was a supe...

Image a bit, and i released it to our work force yesterday. So many people went online to look at the new video. We crashed the system. We had to start over again. But it will be released publicly today. I hope everybody here will take a look at it. With that, david, back over to you. Thank you, sir. Im going to do the ceremonial softball opening, then well go to brian bennett, julie davis, julie edwards, mark thompson, aaron kelley, and john stanton to start. A long line up. That should keep us...

Despite the directors recommendation Hillary Clinton faced no criminal charges for using her private email server and mishandling classified information she should not be allowed to access classified information during the campaign. With no the indictment occurring the least we can do given how she was so reckless and handling classified material and sending classified information on secure servers. Charles the speaker of the house saying that clinton should not be allowed access to classified i...

Immunity, there are several that recognizes it. Jasta goes much further than any recognized practice of International Law. Mr. Speaker, as the gentleman from texas just suggested, one fundamental indication of fairness of legislation is not how it would work for our benefit but what would we think of it if it was used against us . The United States allows our citizens to haul foreign nations into foreign courts, what will other nations enacting legislation allowing their citizens to do the same ...

Security, additional investments in technology, federal Cyber Security, cyber education, new cyber 10 went in the and improved cyber infinite response. Dhs has auroral role in zero most every aspect of this plan. As reflected in the 2017 budget request, we went to expand our Cyber Response team from 10 to 48 and double the number of Cyber Security advisers to make house calls to assist private sector organizations with in person customized Cyber Security assessment and best practices. Building o...

Committee will come to order. Today were holding a hearing to discuss a timely topic. Theres been numerous hearings on Cyber Security and how to stop the bad guys. Whats not been discussed in great detail is what the consequence will be from a massive cyber attack that brings down for example a large portion of the electrical grid for an amount of time. The purpose is to answer an important question. With respect to suber threats to the electrical power system, what consequences should the feder...

Will moderate the first session this morning with the deputy secretary of dhs. Mike balboni is a longtime friend, coconspirator on a whole host of issues. He serves on our board and more importantly has served in numerous roles related to Homeland Security, including the Homeland Security adviser to two different governors in the state of new york, a former senator, state senator in new york who really picked up and defense of a lot of the Homeland Security issues from the status of the. Also re...

Sensors, why did this not get detected . And owe the answer is and you can tell if you look at the map that nobody thought to put these sensors around the white house or around the highincome areas of washington, d. C. So it was never measured. So it wasnt actually applied in this case to a wealthy area. We should look at how we apply it to accept the widest set of individuals. We need to talk about collaboration coordination. One of the interesting questions i think for government right now, is...