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a chance to get your hands on the. of the famous hotel in paris the props. as well and let's do business the cyber attacks have been going on for some time but an even bigger one could be on its way russia says look at me dismissing today's warnings from london and washington as groundless. the hacking accusations against russia came in a rare joint statement the british and u.s. cyber agency said russia could be laying the foundation for future offensive cyber attacks they warned that hackers backed by the russian government were targeting government and private computer networks the hackers aim to compromise key hardware like routers and fire walls that would give them fertile control of data flows allowing them to steal critical data and plant the ability to carry out cyber warfare. the attacks weren't limited to the two countries australia also accused

kremlin backpacker's of targeting hundreds of companies. the the points which. the government and should reinforce for all the struggle is that. the announcements come at a time of growing concern about russia's cyber activities last year the us ordered civilian government agencies to remove casper's key antivirus software from their networks amid concerns the company was sharing data with the kremlin casper's keep in mind the accusations and in february germany said russian hackers had preached key government networks the ongoing cyber assault raises new questions about russia's intentions a country the agency is described as their most capable hostile adversary in cyber space spend half. of.

take the cross section of technology and society thank you very much for joining us tell us what this warning is all about what's the background to this do you think the u.s. and u.k. figured out that allegedly the russians were penetrating a number of. basically devices where the internet traffic flow through and had access to it for a long time and there's evidence of this they have evidence of this. claim to have evidence they claim that there are a highly confidential highly confident that their tradition goes back to russia but we haven't seen it. nor what is the likelihood of this going back to russia well it's it's actually highly likely i mean we've seen russian aggression a number of times now and you feel that has been really pinpointed was hard evidence to the russians but considering considering what's going on also in the jew political sphere it's like a sure. but to me it doesn't sound like anything new i mean it's something that's been going on for a long time according to officials well kind of attack is not new we've seen in the

snowden revelations that the u.s. was doing quite similar things for years now the russians had some rules to do the same thing that has been going on maybe for a year or so so it's not substantially new but what could be new is this warning of a global cyber attack what what proof is that or what inklings do you have that they could be something of that size on its way search sometimes we're talking about this huge scale threat when there's a huge bought a lot of devices have been used or penetrated like in this case but we haven't seen the world wide scale of fiber take taking down everything but you know if you want to emphasize in the threat level you can always play that. doesn't it take a lot of resources and a lot of money to loan something like that and what's what's the return that you get on it what would the russians get out of something like that well it actually takes some resources but not as much as you would think because the devices that have been attacked had vulnerabilities that were known they used. the name

something that's really weak security what you call it. the russians were able to read traffic that goes through the routers and they were able to manipulate it if proper encryption wasn't used but as we've seen with the snowden revelations the doctrine rate for this kind of encrypted for web browsing and messages like what has been increased so they weren't able to get as much as they hoped for maybe so basically could you call this a warning to companies and states to do more to get ready to bolster their defenses and make sure what they're offering us is services is safe sure but it's not first warning and we've seen like in germany with the i.t. security regulation that at some point you're running out of warnings and you just have to make government mandated regulations because the companies just don't want to listen what do you think needs to be done concretely i think in addition to the huge regulation that we have here in germany which only targets critical infrastructure that we have to go far beyond that and have to be working on a second i do security regulation and have is thank you very much for coming in

today. well china and the u.s. in a trade war and while the chinese economy is looking resilient officials in beijing appear to be scrambling behind the scenes to appease washington with more promises this week of economic openness. the trade dispute with the u.s. may be grabbing the headlines but chinese consumers don't seem to be reading the papers they just keep on shopping. and real estate buyers keep on buying china's efforts to boost its domestic economy are bearing fruit world bank figures suggest exports now account for only twenty percent of economic output. to china is well positioned to respond to whatever challenges may come along that includes trade friction with the u.s. we can maintain a healthy development over a condominium. but if the u.s. did fully implement its threatened punitive tariffs that development might not be

quite so healthy many companies are still heavily dependent on exports so china is trying to blunt some of the criticism of protectionist policies by opening up its markets on tuesday interest one of the biggest complaints announcing that foreign automakers would soon no longer have to take chinese partners on board. but let's pick up on that last point there are a key restriction that strained ties with washington and other trading partners beijing promising to open its auto industry to full foreign ownership in five years electric vehicle ownership restrictions that to be eliminated this year followed by commercial vehicles and twenty twenty m. passenger vehicles two years later the current rules require foreign automakers in china to work through joint ventures with state owned companies that forces them to share technology with potential rivals let's talk about the. financial correspondent in frankfurt the comic is must be excited daniel. yes they are the

shares of all german car makers are in the green at the moment the market in china is for them extremely important when volkswagen owns last year their record sales numbers this was also happening because of excellent business in china we are also getting word from the german association of the automotive industry they have stated that this is x. or the new isn't that china for them is very important for the export market but also as a production location ok so china vowing to open its market the u.s. threatening to close it sounds like an upside down world is there a catch yes waterworld what is happening right now was most likely considered some years ago as a totally unimaginable china now being more open toward foreign investors and at the same time a very protective united states but china knows that they need foreign investments to grow what is a record g.d.p. level of at least six point five percent annually so it seems they are thinking

that with this very protective u.s. president the timing right now is just perfect but at the same time many also consider this sort of as a charm offensive toward the united states the trade dispute is till there china knows that also for the u.s. it will be very interesting to produce more american cars in china ok they see if they follow through on those promises then you go for us in frankfurt thank you. finally if you're not the type to steal stuff from your hotel room here's a chance to buy some of it two years after reopening the ritz in paris is selling a whole lot of old footage that was just gathering dust the auction could bring in a pretty penny for the famous hotel. beds like this were essential to the well being of the likes of coco chanel and they must have provided some extraordinary sleep and after all the french diva resided for well over thirty years at the paris ritz the prestigious house has now undergone

a major overhaul and is auctioning off many items that are no longer needed all in all about ten thousand objects from the last century will come under the hammer not all of them are exorbitantly priced. well you could have a collection of eight ashtrays at one hundred euros the ashtrays have the name written on them and you don't have much higher prices than george carriers for example which are large lamps and are estimated to be worth around ten or fifteen thousand euros. you know the auction catalog includes beds from the one nine hundred thirty s. and hemingway era barstools other objects are more unusual like the ritz's first bath tub see all that we want to get is probably the oldest object in this sale season of its founder of the ritz wanted his guests to have the greatest comfort and he placed a beautiful bathroom and every one of the room yes and suites. in the street in

bedside about all items are on show and reconstructed hotel suites at the art curial auction house until the highest bidders take them off to their new homes. i think i'd have to pay for the ashtrays but i don't smoke and well my string business if you. reveal. to. you and we've. we've.

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