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In iran, the state—run television channel has been hacked — to broadcast a protest against the countrys government and supreme leader. viewers saw the usual live programming interrupted without warning. the images show ayatollah ali khamenei with a target on his head — along with pictures of women said to have been killed by police and captions encouraging people tojoin demonstrations. earlier i spoke to kasra naji from the bbc�*s persian service and asked him about that hacking of the s...

Its a business thats very profitable, and well continue to see hackers overseas, criminals overseas continue to flood into the market. >> reporter:rance comewear attackers take control of a network and hold it hostage until they are paid. colonial pipeline paid its attacker $4.4 million. jbs has not said whether they have paid anything. those two attacks follow two other recent major operations by russian government hackers, the unprecedented solar winds breech and last weeks attacks targeting h...

Bunk that fiona hill told congress and she is as senior ands learned as you get, that this is a fiction perpetrated by russia to somehow have peep 8 believe ukraine, which is in a war with russia, was the one involved in t hacking or interfering in the u.s. election. what more, michael can you say toou people who continue to believee this or purp trait th? >> there are several different strands.hi the most kind of credible one then ukrainian ambassador to the united states castating donald trump...

>> and for that the president didnt even have his interpreter, i believe it was only the russian interpreter. so were not likely to hear from him. so the phone call, most of it was off the record. but some of it he immediately said when he landed back in public. so it was in his mind. what it basically was, was that vladimir putin had made the argument that the russians are so good at hacking that had they done it, they never would have been caught. and he said, i found that a pretty convincing ...

Of these efforts? i believe that russian intelligence is very good at hacking. i dont know that russia intelligence knows which counties in pennsylvania and ohio and wisconsin in which to generate the kind of pressure or news or social media pressure that apparently happened. so those are the kinds of questions i imagine robert mueller is examining. theyre not at all incompatible or they dont contradict what donald trump is saying. he deserves a lot of credit. it still might be, however, though ...

Intelligence is very good at hacking. i dont know that russia intelligence knows which counties in pennsylvania and ohio and wisconsin in which to generate the kind of pressure or news or social media pressure that apparently happened. so those are the kinds of questions i imagine robert mueller is examining. theyre not at all incompatible or they dont contradict what donald trump is sighing. he deserves a lot of credit. it still might be, however, though many great boxers who were positioning i...

Was not aware of one of existed before the election day. do you buy that? >> he said i didnt know the name of the russian ambassador. this excuse of im not familiar with washington ways, i dont think it will be bought by special counsel mueller. moreover there are other people in these meeting he including manafort and including michael flynn. flynn indicated he wants to make a deal. so if mueller is able to flip him, we will have another side of whats going down in these meetings. >> finally ph...

Note that anthony scaramuccis account of why it may not be the russians, they are so good at hacking. they are so good they would cover their tracks and we wouldnt know it was him. a remark that putin told trump. and moscows cyber operators soar good at covert and computer network operations if they had dipped into the dnc systems they would not have been caught. they are now laundering essentially the putin line about the culpability here. >> i guess thats what happened. anthony made clear in t...

Ron johnson is investigating the security of secretary clintons servers. you have written a letter to the company. is it data or dato. >> im saying dato. >> why did you red alert this company? >> we need to find out exactly what they backed up, how much retained. greta, this is all about national security. we have secretary clinton having such a complete reckless disregard for the national security of this nation by storing material on her private server. then trying to store backups on an on-si...

Ron johnson is investigating the security of secretary clintons servers. you have written a letter to the company. is it data or dato. >> im saying dato. >> why did you red alert this company? >> we need to find out exactly what they backed up, how much retained. greta, this is all about national security. we have secretary clinton having such a complete reckless disregard for the national security of this nation by storing material on her private server. then trying to store backups on an on-si...