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How long i would like to be in this business. are there days when you think, well, what am i doing? yeah, but there's a lot more days saying, you know, the mission here is critical, and to be able to be a part of it, to be able to feel like you're giving something back to your country, it is a reward. >> senior official at microsoft says candidates in the 2018 midterms have come under attack from abroad. >> earlier this year we did discover that a fake microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks and we saw meta data that suggested they were directed at three ...

Discovered that a fake domain used to launch phishing attacks on three candidates running in this year's election has been uncovered. national political reporter mike memali joins us from aspen with more. mike? >> reporter: yeah, i have to say this landed as somewhat of a mini bombshell here during one of the panel sessions here. this was focused on election security issues. we heard from both corporate and government leaders. we had just heard from an assistant homeland security secretary who said that while there were efforts by foreign states to interfere in some of our key systems in the c...

>> as you were going through that, it is amazing. because it is really complicated, dana. and it is a lot. and not only complicated, it is extremely serious and you have to wonder why the president may not be taking it seriously still calling it a witch hunt even after rod rosenstein briefed him. we remember that clip of donald trump from july of 2016, russia if your listening. what we're learning in the indictment is the russians were listening on the same day they started the spear phishing attacks on the campaign. it is remarkable. >> it is remarkable. the exact day that you played the clip...

Internet traffic. if you send an e-mail from chicago and 20 minutes later from tokyo, it should be flagged. >> use the cloud. this is the capability you have protecting your information when it sits in the cloud. >> reporter: the best way to defeat real life armys of hackers is for good hackers to find the vulnerabilities first. >> we are doing something that's fairly noisy. >> reporter: that's the red team's job -- analyzing billions of lines of software code for the one mistake that could let hackers in. >> our goal is to stay ahead. the way we stay ahead is by looking, feeling and acting li...

The hackers and move fast to of patch the security hole. >> we actually saw everything he did. >> hackers often get in by guessing someone's pass word or using phishing attacks, luring you to click on an e-mail that looks general git but contains a soft ware bug. to show me, they set up an account. >> see's trying to direct me to a web link. >> correct. >> it looks like a link to a politico story. but look closely, politico is misspelled. would i have noticed if i were speed reading my e-mails? >> if i click on it, i'm infecting my computer. >> your entire machine will be controlled and in rea...