joining us from washington, d c, michael riley who wrote up the story. michael, how did they do it? do we know they are from iran? >> in terms of how they did it, it's a pretty clever operation. they built of a virtual media organization in created a bunch of journalistic personalities online to go along with it. they would fill the webpage of this media organization every day with articles they affectively lifted from places like reuters and other mainstream media organizations put under the name of the six journalists and then they would have these corps of journalists use their persona to get close to targets, lawmakers, defense contractors, and others. until they got to the time they trusted them enough to clicked on a link that would download malicious software, steal credentials, get access to e-mail. it's a pretty clever operation. >> we know they are from iran because they worked based on the iranian work schedule? there were certain clues that led eyesight to believe that these were iranian hackers? >> is out of evidence that points back to iran. the ip addresses are based

is michael riley who wrote the story. how did they do it and how do we know they're from iran?t is a pretty clever operation. stood up a virtual media organization and created a bunch of journalistic personalities online to go along with it. they would fill the webpage of this media organization every day with articles that effectively listed laces like reuters and other mainstream media organizations and was put under the name of these fake journalists and then they would have this corps of journalists use their persona to get close to u.s. lawmakers and military officers and defense contractors and others over a long. of time until they got to the point where they trusted them enough to click on a link that would download malicious software and still credentials and get access to e-mails. it was a pretty clever operation. >> we know they are from iran because-they worked on the iranian were scheduled? there were certain close? -- clues? >> there's a lot of evidence that points back to iran, the iip addresses are based in iran. they used iranian words as passwords, the hackers

for more on the breach, we bring in our editor at large and michael riley from d.c. michael, you're the guy who wrote that in-depth investigative piece in bloomberg business week about target. what's your target on the c.e.o. leaving. was it inevitable or was it a surprise? >> i was one of four reporters who worked on the story for several weeks. on one level, it's a surprise. it's really hard to come up with a data breach, even a really, really large one that has gone all the way up to the c.e.o. in terms of the costs to jobs. target as we know had already fired their chief information officer and that's a typical move to try and deflect any of the problems. you can basically just stop there. what it seems to indicate is that there may be more to come. we know that there are a couple of investigations that the result of which aren't public. one is an investigation that target and its consultants are doing itself. another one is being handled by audience authorize who are looking to see if the security issues that target had or problems that they had contributed to th

. >> michael riley, monday on the communicators on c-span2. >> >>, discussion about so-called two big to fail financial institutions and the effectiveness of the dodd frank regulatory law. former minnesota governor tim plenty is joined by fdic vice chairman thomas hannay at an event hosted by the office of the comptroller of the currency and boston university. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> thank you for what i guess i would call a gracious introduction. many of you have probably watched me on mute, so now you can probably watch me talk. these two gentlemen certainly need no introduction. these are two of the most influential voices on the current state of banking. many of you probably thought he would hang up his hat into thousand 11, when after 20 years at that -- at that as the head of the kansas city fed he stepped down by law. your back and better than ever, i think we should say. i think we should start with some prepared remarks. i will ask a series of questions and then we will open it up to the audience's questions after that. >> well, i didn't know until this last panel

for more on the fallout, let's bring in cory johnson and michael riley. who wrote that in-depth investigative piece in "bloomberg businessweek." what is your take on steinhafel leaving? -- i was one of four reporters that work on it for several weeks. on one level, it's a surprise. it's hard to come up with a data one, thaten a large has gone all the way up to the ceo in terms of the cost of jobs. target had already fired their chief information officer. that is a typical move to try to deflect any of the problems. you can just stop there. it seems to indicate that there may be more to come. there are a couple of investigations the results of which are not yet public. there is an investigation that target and its consultants are doing and another one is being handled by auditors who are looking to see if the security issues that target had contributed to the loss and if so, they will look to try to shift as much liability as they can to target. it could be the results of those investigations meant that the ceo had to go as well. >> this may well have been

riley -- michael o'rielly has mentioned that he worked on the hell. -- on the hill. he worked for a long time with senator -- a republican senator from texas. what has it meant to go from that to commissioner? >> the good part of my job is that it does not have too many surprises. workingpent many times for the members you highlight it. be specific not simple but i didn't he house, i worked in the senate. i got to know what the fcc does. i am very for mayor of that. being a person who writes things for members, versus going out and showing it. i hope i have handled my transition gracefully. >> i know you cannot talk about murders that are in front of you , but it looks like the fcc could be dealing with a few mergers. senseyou give a general of when a murder comes before you, are there certain red flags? >> let me give you my general philosophy. i have not had a merger yet. i do not want to comment. my general philosophy will hopefully help. it provides an updated review. we are working closely with the department of justice. i want to make sure that we can have ever

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