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♪ >> we are featuring our studentcam winnings in the c-span documentary competition. this share, students told us the most urgent issue for the new president in congress. our second prize middle school winner is a second grader. k-eight. in she believes cyber security is an urgent issue. her documentary is entitled security ofity: the our nation." >> we all use technology is an important part of our lives. don't you like searching the web, talking to friends. what if you're from stops working? situations have simple fixes but more serious issues can be a

more urgent issue. it should be addressed by the white house. let's start from the beginning. what happens in a cyber attack? there are many different techniques hackers will try. some are as simple as sending messages via text, phone, or social media. phishing."own as " it involves simple technologies with embedded viruses. that this is not the only way hackers cause mayhem. more technologically refined software and techniques have been evolved to destroy firewalls and robin implements. this is called denial of service or dns attacks. over running the system causes it to break down or become

temporarily unavailable. the weaker the firewall, the less number of attacks it takes to overwhelm the firewall and breakdown. another attack is on a larger scale. requires hundreds of of thousands of computers sending requests which causes the same type of shutdown. malicious malware can also be used to attack firewalls and steel information. >> as a technology consultant, that is one of our concerns. not just from external but internal threats. there is a risk from outside people try to get in but also a risk from protecting data from a place that should not have access or an employee that decides to do something malicious. dmr secured to the -- reported to have

experienced some breach and security. this is a big number considering most breaches and security are not reported. damage from spammers and others creates a cost of posting on the site. there are many potential consequences from poor website security. by losing money and customers and resources through attacking information and attacks on online presence because customers cannot make transactions when the way of doing so is unavailable. >> mrs. is today a relying very heavily upon their online presence not only for their brand image but also for attracting business. and so if something happens to compromise the online presence it can impact the bottom line of the company as well as their professional appearance to

people searching for the. reince u.s. information implants can be stolen and altered and effected by cyber attacks. >> when you think of cyber security, yet to think of the department of defense. what if somebody hacked the cia or nsa or something or got control of missiles or something and launched them. that is the real fear. looking into the crystal ball years from now. that is why said cyber security is important. no matter what type of cyber attack takes place, the american people will always be affected ingher directly through phish or in a larger way from throughes they use cyber security. it puts the population at risk and i a larger risk can be

stealing information of the u.s. government and its businesses. a veryink it is interesting phenomenon, right? what you are doing is multiplying what is called points of direction. now you are about the point of direction being everywhere. a number of places you are putting information, right? if that channel is not secured could increase your susceptibility to be a tech. >> major breaches have been traced back to foreign nations such as russia, who has tension with the united states, and china. reince you can make your network harder to hack, right? you cannot make it unhackable. particularly with state opponents like rush i china, they are always going to get in. level, president

obama has participated and to work onnding cyber security. many companies have spyware that many ip and security companies have devices that can detect harmful code. also protect the security of the united states pretty never know what may happen because of the on the stability of serious cyber attacks. that is why we need to project strength in cyber offense and cyber defense capabilities. we must ensure sound policy to secure our nation from adversarial threats. more importantly protecting the nation's freedoms and civil liberties. >> is that enough for security at all levels? so many people work with cyber

attacks and the aftereffects. can help in their own way by protecting themselves, it is essentially the government's job to check the nation as a whole. besides the security of the u.s. should be stronger to prevent cyber attacks. message to washington is that it is their job to protect the u.s. against cyber attacks. cyber security is the most important issue in 2017 and beyond. all of the prize-winning documentaries in this year's city cap competition visit city and that work. >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. , theg up this morning

director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases and the director and producer of the film unseen enemy discussed the potential of pandemics around the world and what can be done to prevent them. and dave spencer talks but his assessment of the republican party and what needs to change. then european union ambassador to the u.s. david o'sullivan discusses the decision by british prime minister theresa may to formally begin the process to leave the european union. we should watch c-span's washington journal beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. a -- day night on q and it was everywhere in decline. nationalists were rising up. the big strategic weapon the u.s. faced was should it bit that should support britain against the nationalist or

create a new order by mediating between the nationalist and the british. america's rising dominance in the middle east about the 1956 suez crisis and its aftermath. >> they're trying to present the soviet union coming in aligning with the nationalists, undermining the british and taking control of the oil. oilas 100% of european coming from the middle east. we wanted to make sure we had friendly arab regimes that were if not aligned with the united states, at least keeping the soviet union out. >> sunday night on c-span's q&a. next, a house judiciary subcommittee hearing on for security and immigration enforcement. a former immigration judge is among the witnesses. this is just over two hours.