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Divide. >> but there is support for dialogue that will lead to change. and one solution getting widespread support the police body cameras. many people believe that will help to rebuild the trust between police officers and the communities they serve. >> richard jordon reporting from d.c. thank you so much richard. now its time to get down to business with landon dowdy. >> good morning to you. it was an impressive opening weekend for the interview. the sony comedy took in $18 million from theate...

Malware used in similar attacks by north korea. they say the malware was leak add long time ago and could have been used by anybody in the world. they have evidence they stole the credentials of a sony insider. norse believes it was given out and tracked to a suspect, a woman code named lina, a former sony employee. they say lina has ties to guardians of peace, which claims resposibility for the sony hit. he had super user access to the companys cyber secrets, user names and passwords to critica...

Attack on sony. >> reporter: the cybersecurity form norse did its own investigation of the hack. norse included cloudflare said that the malware used in the sony attack is similar to other malware used in other attacks by north korea. these sources say that malware was leaked and could have been used anywhere in the world. they have evidence that hackers stole the credentials of a sony insider, but norse believes it was given out. and they tracked it to one potential suspect, a woman co-named le...

Raise serious questions about the fbis claim that the malaware used in the attack is similar to malaware used in other attacks by north korea. these firms say that malaware was leaked a long time ago and could have been used by hackers anywhere in the world. previously u.s. investigators said they have evidence hackers stole the computer credentials of a sony insider but norse believes it was given out and they track the attack to one potential suspect. a woman code named lena, a former sony emp...

Woman code named lina, a former sony employee. he says lina has ties to the hacking group "guardians of peace," which claimed responsibility for the sony hit. she was a security staffer with sony who had what he calls super user access to the companys cyber secrets, user names and passwords to critical systems. he says lina had two motives for the hack. >> first of all, how sony treated its employees, layoffs that were going on, but also a bigger issue around piracy and how sony was treating tho...

As japan tries to get answers about the string of unsolved kidnappings dating back decades. we are learning more about the breach and the steps sony tried to take to protect itself. in 2011, a major hack that shutdown the playstation gaming system. 77 million people had passwords and user names exposed. one says they may have had no way to protect against this because of the way they infiltrated the system. they got the log in from the administrator. >> security experts tell you often time it is...

>> reporter: hey carol, yes. it was quite an alarming situation for sony in 2011. it was in april when it was announce thad some 77 million play station users had their accounts compromised. they had to shut down the entire play station network for nearly a month. then that same year there was also a hacking incident involving sony pictures where another 150,000 people had their user names and passwords leaked out. but even after those debacles, sony was still caught off guard, taken by complete...

Heres the va secretary on cnn. >> we need to be more veteran centric and focus on veteran outcomes. >> reporter: the va will establish a chief customer service officer who will report directly to the secretary. the department will also establish a single regional structure that brings together a wide range of services, including health care, loan centers and other benefits. the goal is to streamline whats being called a clunky, confusing system that required multiple user names and passwords. th...

Accounts, their user names, passwords and security questions. >> what is your mothers maiden name? whats the name of your first pet? and when you are talking about a celebrity, you could probably get all this information from their wikipedia page. >> reporter: hacker expert vinny troia says there are deep networks of hackers all over the internet profiting from the trade and sale of celebrity photos like the once involved in this breach. >> almost like they have contests to see who can outdo eac...

Russian hackers have stolen more than a billion user names and passwords. this breach impacts 420,000 websites. apparently, little of the information though is being sold to other crooks online. instead the information is being used to send marketing pitches and e-mail other junk mail. now to a more traditional theft. this one caught on camera. two masked men rushing into a california jewelry store as its manager was opening sunday. you see them there. they smashed four display cases with hamm...