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o. last month he was president biden met with russian. president putin in delivered a clear message. stop the hacking your tax on us targets, or else. well, i said the world would know in several months whether or not his words had made a difference at the criminal. well since then, cyber attacks originating in russia have not stopped in just the last week. 2 major attacks, one of them disrupting businesses from san francisco to stock home, the largest such attack ever, but so far, not large enough to make a difference at the white house. i'm bringing from berlin. this is the day the me the attack over the weekend underscores the need for companies and government agencies as well. to focus on improving cyber security. it appears to have caused

minimal damage to us businesses, but we're still gathering information if we want to keep electricity right. if we want to keep, you know, people want to be able to use amazon, all that kind of stuff. this is, this is the new world. the majority of ransomware events you don't get disclosed. and that's part of what has allowed this robust network of criminal organizations. it broke the russian government cannot or will not take action against criminal actors residing in russia. we will take action also coming up and you thought former us president donald trump, already had more than enough legal cases to deal with today. trump said that he is suing facebook, twitter and google. they are alleged crime. they silence tim were demanding and do the shadow banning a stop to the silencing and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing and canceling that you know so well. oh,

our viewers on p b. s in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome, we begin the day with the cyber attacks on the u. s. coming from russia. they are getting larger, impacting more businesses and more people, and they may be partly behind an expensive rethink at the pentagon. laid on tuesday, the u. s. military announce that it will terminate a $10000000000.00 cloud computing contract with microsoft siding, the shifting technological environment. what does that mean exactly? back in 2019, the pentagon awarded the lucrative contract to microsoft since then vulnerabilities and cloud computing they've been revealed in numerous acting incidence. the pentagon did not mention this specifically, but it really didn't have to cyber attacks. some, including ransomware had become a matter of us national security. earlier this year, a cyber attack on a gas pipeline led to gasoline shortages across the country and panic,

buying it gas stations. this latest ransomware attack targeted software made by cars say, you know, that's a u. s. firm with hundreds of clients around the world. today, the heads of homeland security, the state department and intelligence were at the white house to discuss the response with president by the russian government cannot or will not take action against criminal actors residing in russia. we will take action or reserve the right to take action on our own. now in this case, you know, there, the intelligence community has not yet attributed the attack. the cyber security community agrees that are evil operates out of russia, with affiliate around the world. so we will continue to allow that testament to continue, but in our conversations and we have been in touch directly, we are continuing to convey that message clearly. for more on this story tonight, i'm happy to welcome cybersecurity expert jason crabtree to the show. he is the

founder of complex, which helps companies deal with data and risk analysis. he is also a special advisor to the senior leaders in the department of defense fiber community. jason, it's good to have you on the program. i suppose you are the man to ask tonight, what are you hearing? are you convinced that this ransom where attack has a russian fingerprint? well, it's great to be here with you. i think the reality for us is that refill is a russian affiliated ransomware, gang that does operate a global affiliate network. and while being an affiliate is certainly a step short of active state sponsorship, it does turn out that there is certainly willful ignorance on behalf of the russian state and failing to look into or in fact, enforce international laws and expectations. and going after these criminal organizations will, i'm considering that what do you suppose was discussed today in the white house

when the heads of homeland security, the state department, and the intelligence community met with the president. i mean, where they discussing a response to this i think the reality here is that the by new ministration has to figure out how to do 2 things simultaneously. it has to help advance the interests of defenders to make ourselves more capable of defending against these kinds of cyber incidents. at the same time that it builds an international coalition and deals with building capabilities within the international law enforcement community to go after these transnational criminal organizations. that's tough but doable. but we've got to do both together. if we're going to be successful in putting the kinds of pressure on kootenai that is specific enough to, in fact, engender any sort of useful response. you're talking about maybe an interpol for cyber security, if you will. did you see anything like that being create?

well, i think you have seen lisa monica, department of justice and other senior leaders in department of justice director chris re actually do a lot to start developing more expertise with the department of justice and the federal investigative arm. but we've got to do more work to have the information available and to build the operational coalitions, notably, you saw the ukrainians actually take down a significant ransomware gang the same day of president biden, and president couldn't summit. so i do think you are seeing folks step in and say, here's what it looks like to be a good partner in fighting these criminal organizations. what do you make the reports that dutch authorities towed because a back in april that there was a cybersecurity floor in there software. and how should i say you have reacted then? i think for companies like cafe that have vulnerabilities in their products, the best thing they can do is make sure that they have a practiced and controlled way of rapidly informing clients and introducing patches

. remember to say it wasn't the only company with a major vulnerability. this week, microsoft has a catastrophic vulnerability in its principal or services that are allowing its clients to be exploited around the world as well right now. but in terms of cafe as customers, part of why the cafe of reach is so impactful, is that to say as vulnerability was actually exploited within man security companies that are effectively part of the out sourced departments for a lot of small companies and large companies like the swedish grocery chain co op that was shut down as a result of the attack. and that's part of why regal, in this case, was able to compromise. actually a small number of customers at this point believe to be in the fifty's less than 60 according to say, but yet reach over a 1000 and customers. because cafe as customers are part of the digital supply chain of companies like co op and the pharmacies and others that were impacted in this, that impact every day consumers. yeah,

and i'm wondering if the policy makers and also if the public, if they realize here that we're looking at a perfect storm or we were talking about a mixture of ransom where and supply chain attacks coming together. that is about as bad as it could get right. i think the reality is criminal organizations want to get paid and they'd like to get paid as efficiently as possible. so if they can compromise, manage security providers, which are a part of the ultimately impacted ransomed organization supply chain, or if they can compromise, why we use pieces of software like to say, or like solar winds, especially software that's used to manage these networks. that's a tremendously efficient way for them to leverage their efforts to get access to more targets at lower cost. but it's not the only way in, and there are way too many companies that have very vulnerable security posture. and that's part of why you see these ransomware events continue to propagate. so substantially. yeah, and you know, we've been hearing that for years and, you know,

i've asked many cybersecurity experts, what would you advise companies to do now? and it's always, you know, you've got to check your cybersecurity, your apparatus or software, but can't a company ever get ahead of the criminal curve when it comes to cybersecurity or many of the kinds of vulnerabilities that are exploited by lots of ransomware groups. remember, it's not just regal, you have other folks fighting dark side that were a part of the u. s. colonial pipeline bridge. you have folks like county that were a part of the irish health care system and actually had been in part of numerous health care and other corporate ransom events. the united states. hundreds according to the f. b i. these organizations predominantly work by finding people who look like good targets. they scam me outside of these organizations and they look at companies that look like they might have the ability to pay and they look like they're going to use to get into. so the best thing you can do is make yourself not look like it's hard to make sure you're not using passwords. make sure

that you're looking at your privileged accounts and internal networks. and you know, frankly, organizations have to stop just building higher walls, higher fences. they have to do more work to look at the inside of their business and monitor and hunt for these malicious actors once they're in their networks. so they make big events into small ones. let me just as before, we've been out of time. if you were sitting with the us president tonight and advising him on what to do, he said at the summit with vladimir approach. and you know, we have to ensure that the kremlin doesn't see it to be in its interest anymore for the cyber attacks to take place. what should the us do next to bring that message home to the kremlin, that it's not in your interest to do this anymore? i think we have to make sure because we live in a glass house and a lot of western society does. we've got to actually ensure that there's transparency about these ransomware events. many are not reported. we should make sure that that stops. we need to make sure we're defending better at home. we need

to pursue law enforcement actions against these groups. and let's make sure that the affiliate networks and the members of regal and other groups are not able to travel outside of the contiguous region, ultimately controlled by vladimir putin. and then if we do all those things, we're going to be in a much better position to have a global scope and understanding of these problems and put more formal pressure and economic pressure back on the russian state to enforce these kinds of rules and standards at home. okay, jason graham, 3 founder of complex. jason, we appreciate your insights tonight. we will stay in touch with you. this story will have some very long legs. i think thank you to be here. the ethiopian says it will allow humanitarian aid flights to enter the northern te growing region, which is on the brink of famine. since november ethiopian soldiers alongside troops from neighboring eritrea have been fighting rebel forces known as the t great

people's liberation for just last week. the rebels retook the regional capital. you see right there mckayla. they have now agreed to a conditional ceasefire, but 1st they want government troops to leave and they want an independent investigation into quote her rick more crimes. and wait a moment, i'll ask if e o p as in vassar to germany about those claims. but 1st, the human cost of 8 months of fighting thousands had been killed in air strikes, massacres and artillery fire. more than 60000 people in te gray have fled their homes to neighboring sudan, and the conflict has cut off food supplies. 400000 people are now living in famine . international pressure is increasing on e t o p as nobel peace prize winning prime minister. i'll be off mid to stop the fighting. the people of t grey have and continue to suffer tremendously. and the

ability of this mandatory and assistance to enter the region unimpeded and unhindered ease of paramount importance to us. we call on all armed actors to commit to an immediate indefinite negotiated fees. so that was a us state department spoke speaking yesterday will i'm joined now by really solomon the news that she is. if you be as ambassador to germany, ambassador, it's good to have you on the program. i want to begin with the news that the government will allow aid flights into the t gray region. when will these flights begin trying to for asking, but for the issues you put earlier since the 2018 it was t p and therefore creating violence in this getting violence. and the government also has tried all that. people try to bring peace,

but they reject the piece into the continue in violence and also that of the one who started attacking the national defense source, which was built in t p. integrate, so who destroyed or infrastructure or government threads or bases to reach the humanitarian aid, which by now $5200000.00 people are listed by $33.00 phases and 70 percent to come by to another month and also to percent by the international committee. and in new jersey and others and by the government left the to guy for the piece reason. the government she's fire is deliberately toward today's is the thing that people have. i can mission the reason why the government, the left and just to help him. and if you have access and reach with the humidity, i hope that the region ambassador that i could ask you if i could just ask you 11 once i get the flights there to bring food in 8 to the people there in the

region. do you know when those flights will be in? yeah, but that this is immediate immediately that the government allowed up the flat scott war in supply of food because the bridges dismantled by a t p live in the building, the bridges. and the reality is, after government is do all, it's from the, from the beginning, tuesday miniature, on it, and also after the international community for additional health that the need for support and the government such as you'd use to start farming with this see for reason why the government try tool tool allow, she's fire is to help humanitarian 3 axis and reach those who are in need. in addition to that of the time of the season or farming. they were the government supplying all of the cultural input so that the farmers can plant during the season

of farming and also to accelerate the return of the international list of people so that they can go to that region. i'm also going to need to do is to locust and also impact of in 1900 pandemic investor. let me just ask you the in terms of food and the famine in the great region, the united nations says that your government has been using food as a weapon of war and that the government has tried to starve the rebels into surrendering it is completely and to it is forced to be called, the government was trying to supply that it was deep in live for even ambushing the humanity around. support even was trying to convey and others hiding in the corners . and also by the time they leave when the operation was the moon for mental professionals finalized in a short time. because of what month to month, major to make to guy safe and also save the country. but since there at least 10000

prisoners and without a moment and also it loss while the carpet were staying in the corner and the one was looting the support and the ends up to give them to the navy that the government has been doing all this and this, what they say the government is using, this is to grab people or our people, our brothers and sisters. how did the government you can come to this is believable at all. well, will you then allow what the rebels are asking for in that is an independent investigation into what they say are possible wars or crimes against humanity? yeah. regarding human rights violence in the crimes about to humanity. it is a joke on government by its own initiative, who requested the investigation of the independent international local investigator . so that's why the international, the united nation, human rights commission,

african, the new union human rights and the people's rights commission. and the ciocca human rights commission are investigating and the 2 shall prevail and government based on initiative who case that the investigation is carried on even the house. right and bring these to the to the, to the just investor. but unfortunately, we're out of time in investment. fortunately, we're out of time, but i appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight. thank you. thank you so much. the way the world has heard a lot less from donald trump since he left the white house earlier this year. social media giants, twitter, and facebook silence, the former president, following his incitement of the storming of the u. s. capital building on january 6 . trump was still president at the time when today trump announced he is filing a class action lawsuit against facebook, twitter, and google for denying a sitting president his platform of choice. the former president is seeking

financial compensation today in conjunction with the america 1st policy institute, i'm filing as the lead class representative, a major class action lawsuit against the big tech giant including facebook, google and twitter, as well as their ceo's mark zuckerberg, sunder j and jack dorsey 3, we'll know we're going to hold big tech very accountable. this is the 1st of numerous other lawsuits. i assume that would follow, but this is the lead and i think it's going to be a very, very important game changer for our country or communication law experts and said today that the company did nothing illegal and they have called the trump lawsuit

frivolous. let's go now to los angeles and bringing ethan berryman. he is a us political commentator. he's a national indicated talk. radio hooks even. it's good to have you back on the show you were out there in california. that's the state where most social media giants call home. how is silicon valley explaining this lawsuit to itself? well, it's really simple. it's fundraising mechanism. and in a desperate seeking of attention by the former president of the united states, it's not going to go very far in the courts unless this new supreme court is going to do something really surprising and want to take it up to strike down. section 230 title 47 of the u. s. code, which is the communications decency act that allows these providers to actually function if for whatever reason this lawsuit should actually go anywhere. and

section $230.00, you get struck down the google facebook, twitter, any social media platform of any kind, any content publishing platform that operates in the united states would essentially see the function due to the lawsuits that would be filed against them. you said that the president is doing this to raise money. money for what to me, what do you think that this is part of a bigger plan? yeah, a. so look the these lawsuit. some of them have turned into wonderful fundraising mechanisms. shortly after filing the lawsuit in the southern district of florida day, today in federal court, they sent out the fundraiser emails and i need to find himself, he's in a lot of trouble. his organization is at least the trump organization is being criminally investigated in new york. and he needs to raise funds if he thinks he's going to run again in 2024. and we heard today from some analysts saying that the

timing of this announcement today is important and they saw it as a way to distract from last week's announcement of charges of tech tax roll charges against the trump organization. do you agree? yeah, i think that's a big part of it. looked at the news hasn't been good for the trump organization for president trump himself. he has huge loans that are coming due according to reports that i've read. and if that's the case, he has a lot of different things that he's worried about. whether it's his organization, whether it's him personally, whether it's all these debts that are coming due and the fact that he's just not getting the attention. and there was even a, a poll on twitter i saw recently by a leading kind of right wing voice that showed that people don't necessarily want trump to win the primary in 2024. it would, do you see a big irony here?

and donald trump was the president, the 1st president to really use social media, particularly twitter, to communicate with the public, into buying pass traditional gatekeepers, such as you know, media and journalist and it worked for him. and now he's out of office and he's launching a legal attack against these companies. i wasn't supposed to go that way. was it 4 years ago? no, he also had total republican control for 2 years. so he wanted to change section $230.00 of the communications decency act. his party controlled the senate, his party control the house. he controlled the executive branch. he had 2 full years to modify that law. that's what he really wanted to do. furthermore, he's an absolute hypocrite because in his own lawsuit where he was a defendant for blocking users on twitter, who with whom he disagreed, his argument was, he had the right to block people because it's a private platform. that was his argument then. now his argument is the opposite. i

find him to be inconsistent in almost everything that he has ever said. that since he really entered the public sphere in the political realm and the wise documented by the washington post show that and this these lawsuit today show further hypocrisy on his part and briefly, why do you think he's going after the see of these companies? is it because they also have deep pockets? yeah, i mean it's, and it's as much essentially a fear tactic that's used to put them on notice. and it's to put pressure on them. it's political pressure, ease, ease using the legal system. and he's well known. i think he has filed several 1000 lawsuits over the last 40 plus years. and so he uses that pressure as leverage to get people to do what he wants, whether or not he's going to win the lawsuit. all right, it's berman, it's always even, it's good to get your insights, especially from the west coast of the united states. even thank. thanks so much.

the finally, tonight we go to the east coast of the united states. new york city has honored frontline health care providers and other essential workers for their heroism. in the cove in 1900 pandemic, ticker tape parade on broadway. they are a new tradition going back a 125 years. they've been reserved for returning war veterans, sports champions, and other heroes officials think workers these essential work today putting their lives at risk to help others when the city was experiencing one of the 1st major outbreak of the vibes in recent weeks, most tend to restrictions have been lifted in new york and parade for the true heroes. the day is almost done. the conversation continues online to find us on twitter. either any w news you can call me at brent golf tv. and remember, whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then at the

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