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Former Homeland Security Advisor Michael Balboni on the recent attacks by the Chinese against the White House.
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Or red alert at the White House we are learning to Chinese hackers breached a computer at the White House's military office on the white -- is saying now.
No harm was done that but this is just the latest -- attack.
Cyber -- to Citi several major US banks.
So -- security advisor write about body who says this is a bigger economic threat.
Then the military one it would obviously post explain what you mean by that.
We in a society we do everything now digitally.
And when you think about the the past -- even companies like.
Is not only taking information but distorting his well and the recent attacks against the banks just point out that this is the evolution.
If congress has been wrestling with this for the last.
Couple of years and it cannot get out of their own way to say how do we set a standard had a -- information shared about these attacks.
And how do we make American businesses and society.
More resilient.
And less vulnerable to these types of attacks.
What they keep happening rabbi god I figure you know and rapids -- you know.
-- midsize company even one of these large companies it worries me when it happens to a big.
Tech company decides that we are detectives you can't figure out -- I have conniving and that's very true.
But what else they have to do -- job and I take you to run Mena and he goes global waved to the White House and they say well you know.
Certainly this is dislike a fishing expedition quite literally where.
They plant a virus plagued validate it disrupts the computer well they they landed a virus -- -- -- -- -- -- story.
Well did the -- the problem with any of the governmental structures that it did the IT structure as is that it all relies on one -- on the same component and that is a human element.
And oftentimes what happens even though we assume that everybody from that folks in the white house on down to the Department of Defense.
To any other of the governmental agencies everybody knows what they're doing when it comes to.
Email and how to deal with the commuter systems what we're really funny -- is they're they don't know as much as they should -- every opportunity.
That the hackers can have to find somebody that they can infiltrate.
And get them to open up one of these emails and download and malicious payload.
It's all you need to crude to prevent and to start an attack and preventing it is really difficult.
Michael -- -- the Chinese so blatant about it I mean -- there it in a thousand US corporation instances.
To say nothing you have repeated government attacks.
It's as if -- -- they set up shop at a Starbucks that are doing it in broad daylight and and they're not even denying it did that that although you know it.
What do we do about that.
When will the Chinese Government has been very open about the fact that they hire young students they trained them to do.
Hacking a train them to go into the can be assistance and decide how the United States and the rest of the world does this cyber business.
Go in and get that information and take it for their own -- -- we're gonna see this going Michael how far does this go what do you see happening it actually.
It actually the information -- received about some of the bank attacks -- recent bank tax is it is it a more disturbing.
Evolution here and that is that it's not just the attack we go after website and you try to take down the web -- to a denial of service attack you -- Waldorf.
Always try to insert some malicious code there but they're actually going after -- the domain -- -- and another would -- infrastructure of the cyber security world.
And what's so disturbing about that is it now you can take the information and yes you could stop it but you could also distort it.
And that now.
When you have a consumer based cyber security and or sovereign network beat you or your -- business.
What do you do if you say you get -- your bank account and now everything's gone.
What happens if we lose confidence and our cyber system in this nation that's economic ruin.
Well well well point it out Michael.
Thank you very much.
