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Protect against these attacks. itty-bitty line of attack, it makes for difficult battle if you think about it in those terms. >> is there more of the obama administration could have done more? >> at the end of the day, we have basic problems, so much of the information that we rely on everyday on digital form that we access with user names and passwords. you and i both know how painful it is. make it easy to get your data makes it vulnerable as someone took our credentials. that tension of openi...

About 500,000 voters. they also hacked into computers of a company that supplied software used to verify voter registration information. they targeted state and local officials responsible for administering elections and they sent spearfishing e-mails to people involved in administering elections including attaching malicious software. the indictment includes 11 criminal allegations and a forfeiture allegation. count 1 charges 11 defendants for conspiring to access computers without authorizatio...

Social box. and social networks bots have become a real plague. they imitate the behavior of real users posting liking and sharing on twitter close to a third of all accounts belong to bots bots can post useful things it all depends on how theyve been programmed. but increasingly votes are being used for political purposes to influence public discourse about military conflicts or elections or to set trends. but to use likes and reach weeks to have weight to various topics and opinions. recognize...

Little personal info or user names are often strange and their profile pictures often contain no people. but sometimes steal photos from real users to see whether thats the case to do reverse image search simply copy and paste the photo into a search engine other accounts may use the same image another indicator friends most often other bots. butts are also far more active than humans they often tweet hundreds of times a day be wary of accounts with more than fifty tweets daily. people need to e...

Personal info or user names are often strange and their profile pictures often contain no people. though but sometimes steal photos from real users to see whether thats the case do reverse image search simply copy and paste the photo into a search engine other accounts may use the same image another indicator abuts friends are most often on their bots. but are also far more active than humans they often tweet hundreds of times a day be wary of accounts with more than fifty tweets daily. people n...

Now to under armour. a data breach affected 150 million accounts. including user names, e-mail addresses, passwords. under armour says the hack happened in february, but it was discovered this week. how does that happen? >> you know, companies are getting a little better at ac s assessing when this happens and brings it to the attention of consumers. not happening fast enough. the chief digital officer at my fitness pal said, once we were aware, we quickly took steps to determine the nature and ...

Thats the iranian intelligence agency. they began the hacking campaign in 2013 and the government says they stole troefs of data, including material from 8,000 university professors worldwide as well as various government agencies here in the u.s. this material included academic journals, dissertations and entire e-mail inboxes. the fbi deputy director, he said it amounted to 3.4 billion dollars worth of material from the universities, many of which are publicly funded, stealing taxpayer dollars...

Anna, thank you so much. your work over the last days on this tells us so much, but explain to people what role facebook played and how cambridge analytica reportedly then used these 50 million user names to mine data that was so critically important or could have been critically important to the trump campaign. >> i think whats crucial here is that facebook knew about this breach. they knew that 50 million users data was inappropriately taken, and they did nothing about it until they realized l...

Dealing with behavioral research and strategic communications. cambridge spun off in the u.s. and was backed by republican mega donor robert and rebecca mercer and former white house chief strategist steve bannon was the companys vice president. according to federal election commission data, the trump campaign paid cambridge $5.9 million during the 2016 campaign. a company that harvested data from 50 million facebook profiles. to put that in perspective, there are about 200 million u.s. facebook...

Election the trump campaign paid cambridge $5.9 million during the 2016 election. this company -- a company that harvested data from 50 million facebook profiles. and there are about 200 million facebook users meaning one in four americans data was collected and it wasnt a data breach like equifax. they were paid to take a personality survey. only 260,000 people took that survey but they were able to scrape data from the friends list giving them data from millions more people. but how did they d...