Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting 20150112 :

FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting January 12, 2015

First from fox this mongoose, hacker claiming to be Islamic State terrorist hacked the personal information of top military commanders and posted it online for the world to see. The hackers today broke into two twitter feeds for the pentagons central command, along with the central commands youtube channel. They tweeted names and addresses of pentagon commanders, along with partial Social Security numbers. Hackers listed personal information about many current commanders as well as retired generals including colon collin pawle and david petraeus, and also posted maps they claim showses surveillance information from north korea and china. The hackers changed the twitter profile to show what looks like a masked militant along with the phrase i love you, isis. One pentagon source says, quote this is bad. The white house is quick to play it down. I can tell you this is something that were obviously looking into and something we take seriously. However, just a note of caution to folks as theyre covering this story. A significant difference between what is a large data breach and the hacking of a twitter account. Still, the hackers were successful in posting the real addresses of the military leaders along with a threat wives and children, and a tweet including a photo showing the inside of a military office space. Central command is of course based at mag gill air force base in florida and macs u. S. Military operations the middle east and oversees americas wars. The hacks were online for 40 minutes or more before the pentagon got twitter to pull the plug and cams the same day is a president obama proposing new measures to protect peoples privacy online. Also, right now were waiting to hear from the Police Commissioner in new york city, set to talk about new Terror Threats against new york city and threats against the new York City Police department specifically. Well bring you any news that comes from that momentarily. First, to Jennifer Griffin live this afternoon at the pentagon. Are pentagon Officials Saying whether any classified information was leaked here . Well, shep, according to the pentagon, no. They say the information that was put online was publicly available on the internet. The slide and plans they purportedly posted were from an open source from m. I. T. But not only did the banner of their arabic and english centcom twitter page say i love you isis but one tweet says isis is already here. Were in your pcs, in each military base. The official Centcom Youtube site began playing isis propaganda videos with tight. S such as all soldiers of truth go forthwith fiery images of isis fighters. Perhaps most disturbing were the personal details that the hackers published of u. S. Army commanders and the top leadership of the u. S. Military, including personal emails and phone numbers. Some numbers we tried and were outdated. Old numbers from previous assignments. There is any way to know at least at this moment who is responsible and further jennifer, how seriously is the pentagon taking this and. Hard to know who exactly is responsible, but they clearly have an understanding of the west and of the u. S. Military and these cyber issues. The pentagon is downplaying the breachbut pretty alarmed by the message. Chairman of the joint chiefs general martin dempsey, had this warning about cyberthreats in general during an interview with chris wall loss on fox news sunday. What have you learned about cyberthreats from the north korea hacking of Sony Pictures . How vulnerable are we to acyberpearl harbor . Cyber can be disruptive and can disrupt and it can destroy. In every domain, chris we generally enjoy a significant military advantage, but we have peer competitors in cyber. Centcom had to work through twitter to stop the hacker even though the u. S. Has a u. S. Cyber command chat is supposed to protect the u. S. Military and its network from this kind of attack. U. S. Cybercommands budget doubled to 447 million for this year alone. Jennifer griffin at the pentagon. Thank you. Lets turn to colonel sedrick layton specializes in cyber threats, trained thousands of military staffers in cyber security. How big a deal is this . Its a big deal, this is one of the biggest ones we have had so far that has become public knowledge. The good news its a twitter account and not the network but its a big deal. Getting in the network if you had that, a whole new ball game. But a twitter account, if you dont have a good pass word wouldnt take long. And you can use links to get from wing thing to another and doesnt take long. It was up for 40 minutes and not just in english lange. We have an arabic language version and that was out for 40 minutes as welch thats not a propaganda win. No, its not. And because the twitter is used for messaging and the arabic version of twitter for the centcom site especially, thats significant issue and we have to remember its not just the technical piece. Its also the Public Information piece, which twitter of course is a useful tool and if we dont protect that asset we have great vulnerabilities and we risk losing the messaging war in this case. Colonel, bigger picture, who are did the hacking we dont know who it is whoever did this claims that theyre in our pcs and theyre able to get into our network systems. What stock do we put in that . Well, i think its a bit exaggerated. I think in this case the idea they are in everybodys pc is probably overblown, but theyre clearly working on it and thats what they want to do. Can we get into their systems . If not, why not . Well, depends. Some of their systems have proven to be vulnerable in the past. Right now thats one of the most sensitive areas the military and Cyber Commander are working on. But it is an area that i think they are constantly evolving, clearly doing things like changing passwordses every 12 hours, things like that. So theyre making it very hard for us to get in there, at least trying to do that. But it is possible for us to get in there and who knows, when they see Something Back from us to them in the not do tao distant future case, do we do that change our passwordses on our power grid and our transportation system, things we have always thought are vulnerable . No, we do not and thats one of the biggest vulnerabilities out there. We have to do that because its part of the key public infrastructure, and failure to protect that infrastructure gives us a huge victory, vulnerablity, but thats a government and private sector thing as well. If you could stay with us. Breaking news happening now. The nypd Police Commissioner bill bratton is speaking live now on Terror Threats there was an interview this morning, and he responded to a video from the Islamic State which reportedly threatens Police Officers here in the United States, specifically new york city. What is the biggest city in the country to do now . Lets listen to the Police Commissioner. Units were impacted by these actions more than others. For example as i reverend last week exhighway units and Traffic Enforcement agents which normally conduct solo patrols were doubled up for safety reasons. This was applied to officers taking any personal breaks. Last week, i met for several hours with the bureau team. We encourage them to attend roll calls with respective pre sync commanders and encourage officers to get back to what we describe as normal levels of activity there is no specific target number that we go for no quotas. If you will. But based on past experience we expect more activity than we had been experiencing over these last several weeks. Let me just say that the nypd is never going to totally stop working. 911 calls have been responded to. Rescues continue to be made and arrests for crimes are continuing also, and crime has continued to go down, and actual low go down quite substantially the first 12 days of this year, considering that last year was a record low year for crime in so many categories. With that a figure is report is released each monday that i believe youre all farm with, the citywide sheet were kind of local here. Two big matters at issue with the nypd. One, there had been a slowdown, job slowdown which the Police Commissioner admitted happened. We knowed happened because of the number of people in first appearances or in bond hearings in the morning, first appearance before jumps theyd been cut by half. My sources and good buns inside the nypd tell me the numbers are back up but there had been threats against Police Officers in the United States. We have seen attacks carried out. There are 51,000 employees of the new York City Police department. 34,000 officers as of the end of 2013. Colonel sedrick layton. A lot of peoples whose job to protect us who now need some extra degree of protection it would appear. Yes, i agree. And theyre going after, it appears, the nypd in france, the officers were told to limit and eliminate any police mentions in their social media profiles. They have also beefed up their security in france in the wake of what happened least week so we have a significant issue and of course, on the military side isis is very much going after the personally identifiable information, in other words, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, all of those things related to military personnel too. So, as we saw that of course with what happened with the twitter hack of the centcom account. So were seeing some significant issues where the personal safety of Public Safety officers and military personnel is now being called into question and its not good. Colonel layton, former Intelligence Officer with the United States air force. Appreciate your time. Thank you. You bet, shep. Ahead the security concerns in the streets of france. We take you to paris and a look at police trying to stop any other terror attacks. Thats next on the fox news deck. You show up. You stay up. You listen. You laugh. You worry. You do whatever it takes to take care of your family. And when its time to plan for your familys future were here for you. Were legalzoom, and for over 10 years weve helped families just like yours with wills, Living Trusts and more. Visit us today for legal help you can count on. Legalzoom. Legal help is here. Are your joints ready for action . Take osteo biflex®. 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France is flooding the streets of paris and beyond with 10,000 troops. One of the largest ever deployments within frances borders. Defense Officials Say the troops will stand guard at sites of high risk of becoming targets among those jewish neighborhoods in paris and the countrys hundreds of jewish schools. The kosher market was a target last week that killed 17 innocent people. That includes a dozen terror victims executed in the Charlie Charlie hebdo. The gunmen in the kosher market siege appeared in a video that popped up online. Investigate users say it looks like somebody edited the video after the gunman died in the attack. Theyre trying to hunt down whoever that is, as well as this woman, the gunmans widow. Officials in turkey say they spotted her in Surveillance Video from the istanbul airport. From there she crossed into syria one day after the attack. Rick leventhal is in paris for us this evening. What more are we learning about the security situation there rick . Authorities going to Great Lengths to protect a French Jewish Community of 600,000 people, the largest in europe, concerns spiked her after one of last weeks attacks was against the Kosher Grocery store. The gunman said he are started the store and the jews on purpose and called for more attacks, and there have been other antisemitic threats in al qaeda and yemen andbeyond and thats why the authorities made the unprecedented call for 10,000 soldiers and 5,000 more protect to protect synagogues and the 700 jewish schools across france, hoping this extra layer of protection will thwart anymore possible terror strikes, but the community on edge. 7,000 jews immigrate last year and expect the number could double. I mexed one of the gunmen was married. We thought the accomplice was a girlfriend. Now we know she is a widow. What do we know how she made into it syria after the kosher market incident . Last week they were convinced the she was on the run here in france and now they think they have hard evidence she left here days before the attacks and may now be in syria. Turkish authorities released closed circuit Surveillance Videos from cameras in istanbul showing a woman believed to be met dean traveling boumeddiene, traveling with man not her husband, she left istanbul for a small town near the turkey syria phone. They got a ping on her phone last thursday and then lost her suggesting he slipped across to the perioder into syria would could be very difficult to catch her. Much more of the video of of the gunman killed the market, and another video calling for attacks here in the United States. Those details are next. You know, just because your bladder is changing, it doesnt mean you have to. With tena, let yourself go. Be the one with the crazy laugh. And keep being their favorite playmate. With tenas unique super absorbent micro beads that lock in moisture and odor. 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I know there is a video that is emerged today that were still reviewing here, in which one of the terrorists indicate some sympathy and support from isil. The new york Police Department and the fbi and Homeland Security are on heightened alert after the direct threat by isis to law enforcement. Anything more on the connection to al qaeda in yemen . The investigation is ongoing but a yemeny official told fox news they believe al qaeda in yemen provide training to both brothers and the execution of the plot was left to their best judgment. In effect, there was a Standing Order to launch a strike. The official who is not authorized to speak on the record said, quote, its highly possible that said kouachi the older brother met oneonone with the american cleric, alawlaki, who was a talent spotter for al qaeda in yemen, before he was killed in a cia drone strike in september of 2011. The first significant foreign fighter case we have seen where you travel to yemen and back, train, one brother funneled fighters to al qaeda in iraq, which is a precursor to isis. Separately, fox news confirming that said kouachi went to the same Islamic School in yemen as the underwear bomber to study arabic but the yemeny official is steering us away from reporting of the wall street journal that the two were friends or roommat

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