cheers and applause stephen welcome to the report, everybody. Ill be with you in a second. Stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen cheers and applause all right, thank you so much. Im sorry, nation, ill be with you in a moment. Ill be right there, folks. I just have to sorry, folks. Ill do it in a moment. I just cheers and applause im just desperately trying to secure my data, folks, you see, like you. Im in a deep panic because we are facing the greatest security brief in internet history. A major Security Threat making lots of people who use the internet a new bug affecting twothirds of all major web sites. And it allows them to steal their personal data, called heart bleed. It was undiscovered for more than two years and anything sent during that time has potentially been compromised during that time. Your personal data is not compromised unless youre one of those techies who use the internet in the last two years. So y
Dedicated to preserving foundational American Values in a time of rapid technological change. I am Kevin Bankston the policy director of the open Technology Institute which is the tech policy and technical modeling of new america where we are focused on building a stronger and more open internet for a stronger and more open society. I want to thank you for all coming here today and braving the heat or for tuning in via the webcast or cspan for todays panel Event National insecurity agency, how the nsa surveillance programs undermined Internet Security. Since they first note and lakes all the controversy around the nsa has been focused on its programs to collect phone records under section 215 of the patriot act and its moderating of internet under section 202 under the fisa amended that been focused on the debate over how to reform the surveillance statutes. Yet the nsa is also engaged in a wide variety of conduct that in our view is fundamentally threatening the basic security of the
Hackers give to a vulnerability and software that allows a bad guy into a computer system. These gaps take a lot of forms. They have not been previously discovered. So there is no way to block them. When a hacker has a zero day, with the right tools and school bills, they cant. Into a system and take control. With the right tools and skills, they can take over system. How would you describe this series . It is really the mission that we were looking into Cyber Security and cyber war. The pentagon had declared cyberspace the environment of people and machines and networks as a new domain of war, and get we realize that maybe one in 1000 people really understood what cyberspace was and the degree and depth of the vulnerabilities. So what we are trying to do with the zero day series is take pieces of it and explain the fundamentals and the platonic idea is that everybody from my mom and dad to congress and people around the country can understand, and so maybe start the process of coming
The succulent baseball dispelling fears over safety and security of those attending. Reforms im proposing today should give the American People greater confidence that their rights are being protected. Or oh four and didnt inspire confidence on capitol hill were a top ranking lawmakers criticized the proposals themselves and the speech for creating a climate of uncertainty. I am in moscow im at present bring you todays top stories and a look back at the weeks news but bb begin with breaking news tonight disturbing images of merging of violence in kiev around Seventy Police officers heard the pop with protesters according to the ukrainian interior ministry. This is one of most dramatic pictures that weve seen the footage heart is beginning to see roughly you can see riders beating officers with sticks the crowd also threw stones and firecrackers the Police Respond with Water Cannons and tear gas. Ukrainian journalist andrea bought the boys told us what you would. I saw the month of cock
Declared the winner of the primary Runoff Election by 6700 votes after finishing second in the first primary driven to his victory by courting support from africanamerican democratic voters. The House Veterans Affairs committee is holding a series of hearings looking at medical care problems at the va and tomorrow the committee will look at how they handled whistle blower complaints. That is like at 7 30 eastern. We invite you to join the converation about the va on facebook and twitter. From roll call, john boehner is moving to a late july vote to authorize the lawsuit against president obama as he tries to check executive power and stoke the republican base. Committee staffers are discussing several executive actions boehner could target and widdle the list down to the fewest number of actions that will give the suit the best chance of being heard. Again that news item from roll call today. Now you can keep in touch with Current Events from the Nations Capital with cspan radio. 20226