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Set their sights on. developing malware for these smart household appliances has become big business for hackers as the german authorities have also observed. in twenty eighteen there were some eight hundred million our programs in all with three hundred ninety thousand new ones emerging every day that's the best place to earn the most money is the weakest link in the chain as an io t. devices aren't a secure as they should be but. this hacker jar from the united states was convicted last year of programming malware to infiltrate household appliances. the malware link the appliance used to for...

It's nothing short of digital blackmail expert's advice computer users to keep. your antivirus software up to date to prevent such attacks. or a distributed denial of service attacks are also very popular among computer criminals dos attack is an attempt to paralyze a computer network by flooding it with user traffic the perpetrators often employ large numbers of computers that they've infected with malware. another kind of attack can involve the use of webcams and smart home appliances like refrigerators . these are called bot net attacks. and the motives of computer criminals who carry out t...

Campaign. how concerning is this to you right now? >> it's deeply concerning. but unsurprising, wolf, because the director of national intelligence told us a week or so ago that the warning lights are flashing red. we know from the briefings we have received that the russians have continued their attack on our democracy. it's not only in the social media. it's also in cyber. today, i introduced two bills on a bipartisan basis with senator graham and senator whitehouse. aimed at election integrity and also countering this cyberattack increasing the penalties for cyber crime, enabling the justic...

You know, i think if there's something in that realm to be done, i think it needs to be some kind of federal initiative. i brought this with me on purpose. this is a potential cyber weapon. it can be hacked into. it can be marshalled as a bot net, and used to do cyber attacks. every child ten years and older has one of those. none of those kids have any training in cyber security and basic cyber hygiene. that's a big problem. we are so naive, using technology we're not aware how it can be abused, misused. as a country, we're not well prepared. i think our intelligence services are. >> let me a...

Terrifying plague against the jewish community centers. case second i want to mention is, a lot of you know what the bot net is, the zombies of armies lashing together to do tremendous harm to innocent people. last month the fbi working with our partners with the spanish national police took down the calio, and locked up the russian hacker behind that botnet who made a mistake that russian criminals sometimes make of leaving russia and leaving to visit the beautiful city of barcelona and he's now in jail and they have now been freed from it and are no longer part of the huge criminal enterpris...