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Computers and demands payment to open them, ransomware, targeted machines running microsoft windows without up-to-date security. in an unusual move, microsoft partly blaming the u.s. government for the attack. thats because the tools used were stolen from the nsa. microsoft president brad smith telling cnn thats why we need new rules about government stockpiling cyber weapons. >> one of these rules should actually put new restraints on governments so that theyre not hoarding these vulnerabilitie...

These exploits, and when they are, that theyre keeping them secure. >> he added that microsoft wants a digital geneva convention for cyber weapons. so, imagine, you know, governments can see these vulnerabilities in, you know, operating systems are the global economy, basically, has them, sees them, could use them if they wanted. maybe dont. theyre just stockpiling it as a cyber weapon, but then its hacked or leaked and then its out there. >> we still dont know if it was hacked or leaked by the ...

Try to completely deal with this. europe and other investigative bodies in europe, interpol, and around the world are looking at this as a blame game now really. again, microsoft for having vulnerabilities in its software. the nsa for finding and capitalizing on the vulnerables, and the hackers and maybe us, too, for not putting up enough defenses. back to you. >> melissa: thank you. it appears that germany may also be a high profile target of a ransom demand. hackers are threatening to release ...

Channels and the reaction would have been one of gratification, maybe one of, hey, maybe we can exploit this, i dont know. i know minister lavrov and ambassador kislyak. i dont think that they are malevolently interested in the united states, but, look, they are servants of the russian state, and they are loyal to mr. putin. they need to be, and as a result they may not have the best interests of the united states and the future flow of information at heart, and a lot of people obviously in russ...

Has to end hinting that north korea has to do something about it. again, the investigation not completely sure that north korea is involved. thats why europol and other investigative bodies are working hard as well as the blame game. microsoft had its vulnerabilities in the soft way. they found ways to counter act that and take advantage of that. and then theres the hackers and then the users like you and me that should put up more defenses. this is not the end of this. >> shepard: greg palkot l...

>> eboni: a missile test by north korea and clues that link north korea that they may be behind massive ransomware attack. security experts finding evidence that points to a hacking group connected to the rogue state. okay, theres that. >> eric: it wasnt the russians? this is a massive issue. north korea has been known to do this before. no question that they want to do it. i think this is one of our biggest vulnerabilities. not that they are going to shoot in intercontinental ballistic missile ...

Here in the u.k. they are literally still feeling the pain. remember, hospitals starting on friday were really whacked by this attack and still were hearing today of surgeries and other treatment being postponed. car companies and will rail lines in europe are just now getting back to speed. europol are cranking up their investigation as well as the blame game. it was microsoft that had the vulnerabilities in their system. it was the nsa that capitalized on that but the hackers found it and mayb...

Further investigation. a big issue, of course, is that this latest attack was crafted on vulnerabilities in the microsoft system discovered by the national security agency and stolen from it. so this is the concern that investigators have. it has had a worldwide reach here in china, 40,000 institutions alone have been affected, and the problem had further reach because of the popularity of pirated software here. there were a lot of systems that simply missed the security patches. so as the cyber...

Election irregularities, voter intimidation, fraud, suppression, and looking at the vulnerabilities of the various elections we have in each of the states. another point its a bipartisan commission. the first half of the membership formation announcement last week but there will be more members announced, so its a bipartisan group of people, all experts in their field and well look at the facts and go where the facts lead us. >> and what would be the goal, seeing how vote something largely done ...

That? >> the first thing is the only thing they can confirm whether something was. developed by the nsa and they are not likely to do that. and also theres different ways to interpret that fact because it could have been discovered by a third party security researcher who sold it to the n sark nsa. thats part of the trade is intelligence agencies around the world hire security researchers and hackers to come up with what we call both vulnerabilities they discover and exploit. thats a possible ex...