but what are the sort of big picture projects there despite the gadgets that being showcased tall and well you name it as i said the halls the size of fifty football fields several thousand companies will be introducing tens of thousands of products so you've got your drones you've got your robo car i think one of the big trends that we're seeing or should i say hearing this year is voice and after santa left all those smart speakers under the christmas tree a lot of us are already barking at alexa to turn the heat up or to turn the lights off and voice control is replacing the keyboard and a lot of functions that we routinely perform in the course of a day yeah that's a really new and exciting you know one of the areas that we report on here boom bust a lot our energy efficient things conservation related technologies are you going to be on the lookout for those two out there. yeah and look no further than your

kitchen for a great example the smart refrigerator can now tell you via an app what is in your fridge and how long it's been there and another app can suggest dinner recipes based on what you already have at home and i know this sounds like the jetsons but the average american family wastes two thousand dollars a year in food largely because they aren't sure what they have at home so you know there's a matter of energy conservation for the fridge itself for the fossil fuel you'll burn making a needless run to the supermarket etc etc there's a bunch of subtle ways that go beyond the windmills in the solar panels that we think of when you think energy conservation while holland i imagine if some of our viewers were to have their refrigerator tell them what's in there it might be more akin to

a horror movie with some of the old things they have anyway holiday hope you'll join us to get again later in the way colleen cook host of the big picture which airs at our team america at seven pm on fridays holland thanks for joining us you bet. there was a while last year and the year before that it seemed of it as if a hack was back every day or so cyber crime is still an important matter that impacts large and small businesses alike and of course folks like us individuals and cyber criminals never rest they're like the energizer bunny they just keep going and going we're joined by todd shipley the president and c.e.o. of vera software todd something not all of us had heard about came to the forefront you know last year the year before ransomware i know you know about it a lot but your computer essentially gets locked up until you fat pay some nefarious hacker to let it loose explain how this works and i read recently that it cost of

people eleven billion dollars last year how does it work how much does it cost and is it going to keep going up tide well thanks for having me on this afternoon bart it's definitely going to be a continuing issue and it just has to do with the fact that security for home computers and business computers is lacking in so many ways and so what ends up happening like a typical phishing scheme or an e-mail that you open up there's a document or something in there that runs the fairy a script in it that ends up taking your data encrypting the data not just using it for a purpose of takeover or a hacker getting in there to look at your files or on your computer that actually locks everything up and then it gives you a notice on the screen that says hey i will give you the key to unlock your computer if you pay me a certain amount of money that money is usually bitcoin and an address out there in the darkness that you've got to negotiate to and hopefully have the bitcoin to be able to provide it to them and once you do it give them the bitcoin you're hoping

that they're actually going to give you the key that you can then unlock your data from but that doesn't always happen. yeah just a typical you know ransom slash hostage circumstance with. technology isn't always great is it now look if we look at another another i know you've seen this chart i want to bring up with ransomware payments this is from two thousand and sixteen that we just finished two thousand and seventeen of course but i thought it interesting that a payouts are made less by those that are attacked in the us as opposed to other nations like canada germany in the u.k. why is that there's something sneaky going on that i don't understand well i think we have to look at what the survey is not that it's incorrect necessarily but it's anecdotal it's an online survey by people that choose to respond so given that it's not necessarily as factual as it could be although if you look at the numbers it is very different in the u.s. than the rest of the world one of the things that we look at when it comes to those

kind of cyber issues with malware and whatnot those usually hit eastern europe first and then migrate as the time zones come online into the united states. the ses actually has a little bit of a buffer during that time because as eastern europe gets hit western europe gets hit they're trying to deal with those things and when united states wakes up on the east coast they've got a chance to start responding to some of those things in preventing the attack so there's a little bit of time like they're also the effect that the business in the united states has taken a real hardcore look particularly with ransomware about how we train awareness within the companies not to open up files not to do certain things so i think there's a little bit better awareness occurring in the u.s. than there is in some of these other countries and taught another area that i know that you're an expert on also the vulnerabilities of cyber vulnerabilities in the older modes of transportation you know where they've got you know antiquated

software planes ships i know they're talking about hacking cars but you know what's going to happen i mean could for example some hacker you know get into a ship's computer system say an oil tanker or even heaven forbid a cruise ship to take control sounds like a plot for an action movie but could it actually happen todd. well i think we have to be aware of what's occurring as the hackers have started to figure out that older technology is a place to move to that they're going to start looking at that look at what happened with pacemakers just this year in the huge recall of pacemakers because of the lack of security in those and you'd think that they would have security i think we have to start thinking about those kinds of things we just had that she huge train accident in washington state we have to start looking at what can affect this old technology and whether or not the hackers can get into this stuff because security was not built into those devices intentionally and so we have to go back

in and look at that stuff our electrical grid a lot of these of the places that are potentially valuable with our infrastructure and find out whether or not it's susceptible to these problems target's really fascinating want to have you back to talk about what individuals can do to protect themselves and i also want to ask you about artificial intelligence another time todd shipley president c.e.o. of vera software thanks for joining us thanks marc talk to you soon. time now for a quick break but stick around because when we return consumer confidence is on the rise here in the united states we take a look at some of the numbers for us shoppers and as we go to break here are the numbers at the closing bell stocks posted the sixth day of gains with health care and financial sectors start leading the way for the.

in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers show the world with a tax haven the secrets to trillion united states dollars passthrough most. in the amount of time that we've been in panama papers exposure that's what it shows a lot of money it really is. journalism it's an act of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and asking why would they want to keep these things secret. millions of. documents were examine. all the people we basically have tried to get an advantage out of this sort of newspaper. and probably other politician which were. other police and the media were quick to find targets such as the kings of morocco and saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. and russian president

vladimir putin of course. that's had so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things don't just happen by chance it was very striking there were no more americans to go specially but a lot of people from the brics countries. specially brazil russia and china their special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. of the panama kona coast. with gold make this manufacture consent to public wells. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round the sun be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sit.

room. on monday the federal energy regulatory commission ferk formally rejected a proposal from the trump administration to pay energy plants to keep a ninety day stockpile of fuel on site the policy proposal was supported by the call a nuclear industries which would have had an advantage over natural gas plants which can't store their stuff because they're fueled by pipelines and the policy was opposed by natural gas interest as you might imagine every major u.s.

grid operator and consumer groups who said the policy would raise prices and not increase reliability or resilience in the system all five for commissioners all trump appointees by the way three of them republican voted to reject the proposal from energy secretary rick perry who claimed that on site fuel storage makes calling nuclear plants less vulnerable to shutdowns but an energy department review in august of last year refuted that argument. yesterday we spoke about consumer debt in the u.k. well there's news today about increasing consumer confidence in the united states and it may be pushing us borrowing higher also the latest federal reserve figures for november of last year show the largest monthly increase in consumer borrowing in sixteen years rising by close to twenty eight billion dollars for a total of three point eight trillion dollars in consumer debt the increase was

largely fueled by the largest monthly increase in revolving consumer credit cards for most for the most part those increases in credit cards increased more in one month thirteen point three percent than ever before while the news coincides with reports of increasing consumer confidence the rate report on credit cards suggest american households may be vulnerable in the event of an economic shutdown herschel downturn rather hope that doesn't occur credit card delinquencies have also unfortunately ticked up from seven percent to seven point five percent although that's well below the historical average of nine percent. air bus will be boosting production of its passenger planes in china starting next year the european aerospace giant made the announcement during a visit to china with

a trade delegation headed by french president emanuel mccrone artie's alex mahela bitch has the story in toronto alex what is the latest on this agreement. well you know it's an interesting agreement because obviously everybody wants to get into china but let's start with kynge in the city that this is actually happening you know this is just outside of beijing and if you look at this map pretty interesting one of those tiny towns in china of fifteen million people it's a port town and the facility there has been around since two thousand and eight the airbus facility they've already built over three hundred fifty a three twenty series aircraft now they've been building about for a year or next year they want to pump it up to a story for a month next year they are pumping up to five eight three twenties a month and then by two thousand and twenty they're looking at six so this might seem insignificant but obviously each one of these planes is worth millions and millions of dollars so if anything this is one of those moves that is telling china a europe is interested in expanding since air bus itself although it's headquartered in toulouse france is really

a european union company it's crosses borders there and it crosses a confidence as well but this is really a push by europe to signal to china look we are here and maybe we can do some more business with you and maybe a fair trade perhaps wink wink so that's that what we're seeing right now with this move and what they do alex they build the planes in europe as you say and then they deal with the energy of the plane over it in china is that how it works. well see that that's one big part of it even if this deal expands because what a lot of people are talking about let's not stop at the a three twenty we all know about the a three eighty which is a massive plane for four hundred passengers super jumbo jet dreamliner right absolutely it's not the dreamliner dreamliner is actually the seven eighty seven i believe ok not an airbus the arab air bus itself has the eighty three eighty so the a three eighty there detour in competition definitely but kind of the same story

right these are massive planes but the a three eighty what the interesting part is is probably the slowest selling thing that airbus has just because of the size of the plane when we look at the a three twenty it's something that a lot of markets are interested in is what great for you know those intermediate sized flights when you're getting into the long distance you want something much bigger i don't know i do if i'm on a plane for fourteen hours i want to be as big as possible and that's where you have something like the dreamliner or the a three eighty now the a three eighty that idea is that maybe pump it up in china again so exactly what you were saying it's along those lines of let's do the interiors in china and this is just discussion right now but we're hearing from industry sources that this is actually being talked about quite a bit so to bolster the operation in challenge and in china and to put it on par possibly or even a.