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Long strings of computer code included but what is clear as somebody who reads the news, this appears to be the follow up and much more serious and much more public update to something we saw that happened this past summer. this past summer you might remember this when you see this picture of that nuclear power plant. bloomberg news and "the new york times" reported that a secret warning had been issued by the same agencies by homeland security issued to american power plant operators telling them there were cyber attacks targeting u.s. power plants including menbmoribly didn't na who the perp...

Indicators of compromise and x technical details on the tactics, technologies and procedures used on compromised victim networks. now, you can tell from all the weird nouns there that this is obviously a technical document, but the plain english is clear. it's a warning, it's a nationwide signal that something is wrong. says right at the top of the report, contact dhs or law enforcement immediately to report an intrusion. now, i am not tech savvy enough or commuter engineer minded enough to understand a ton of what is here, particularly the long strings of computer code included but what is cl...

>> is this the sort of thing where identifying it, pointing out what they have done, naming in some cases the specific technical ways these hacks were achieved, the specific type of malware used and strings of computer code in the technical alert, is this the thing where naming it and identifying it will allow power plant operators to stop hackers from potentially doing this or are these power plant operators essentially helpless and tonight shut these things down? >> it's a great question. i think at this point part of the reason they came out is to tell power plant operators, look for this o...

Today "wall street journal" reported in 2015 russian hackers working for the russian government stole information about the national security agency penetrates foreign computer networks, computer code it uses for such spying and how it defends networks inside the united states. that would seem to be very valuable information for the russians to have from our nsa. the russians reportedly got access to the valuable, highly classified information after an unidentified nsa contractor took material home from work an put it on the home computer. that was his first mistake. second mistake, according ...

Of the implications that it helder if other agencies running the software or contractors or employees might have it at home and the kind of school tools and the computer code the nsa uses to spy on other countries. i mean, if you like, analogize them to the tools for spying or the methods for spying. when this kind of thing gets into an adversary's hands, it tells them how to defend their networks to gain information from them and potentially to take the tools and use them against other countries, maybe even against us. it's the kind of thing that you protect as a basic element of intelligence...