the hacking of target, home depot, staples, and other top retailers made headlines. two sets of criminals. sophisticated cyber thieves steal your credit card information. common criminals buy it and go on shopping sprees, racking up billions of dollars in fraudulent purchases. the cost of the fraud is calculated into the price of every item you buy. when computer crooks swipe your card number, we all end up paying the price. 2014 is becoming known as the "year of the data breach." the theft of 40 million credit cards from target late last year was followed by news of a breach at michael's stores involving more than two million credit cards. then came pf chang's. and in september, home depot announced that 56 million of its customers' credit card numbers were stolen. >> dave dewalt: nearly every company is... is vulnerable. >> whitaker: dave dewalt is c.e.o. of fireeye, a cyber security company that gets hired to keep hackers from getting into a company's network, or getting them out after there's been a breach. >> dewalt: even the strongest banks in the world-- banks

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had a crash by the home depot and the target store in cheltenham at choppers lane.eared out. by the target store in springfield township delco a wreck along baltimore pike at 320. normal slowing on night. it's not as slow as normal but through the work zones you're looking at speeds in the 30's and 40's. a crash as you come off the ben franklin bridge on the admiral wilson boulevard eastbound at 676 in the gore point. a new one in evesham township along 70 eastbound past elmwood road taking out the right lane by the elmwood businesses park and in berlin camden county don't forget about that downed pole along the white horse pike at tansboro road by the rite-aid taking out the right lane there as well. i guess i'll just keep waiting for my gift rick and shirleen and i'll be back at 5 o'clock. >> i'm waiting, too. >> we're all waiting. >> we're all waiting. >> we'll be waiting for a long time. >> stepping outside, sky 6 hd meteorologist melissa mags has the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast coming up next. waiter: here's your check. oh! you--you got it. you know, s

the dow is up very close to 200 points. exxon mobil. home depot, intel, chevron. he way, home depot has hit an all-time high. the retailers are doing particularly well. we have all the big names moving very nicely. urban outfitters. a 10% gain. $1200 an ounce. restoration hardware. that was a charles payne picked. nicole: it is a winner today. winner this year. pretty happy on this retailer. they raised their financial projections. they actually decreased their forecast. now, the profit has more than doubled. the stock is that a new high. continuing to do well. we have better than expected jobs numbers. the hiring has been the best. improving the housing market. stocks like this one. stuart: charles payne saw it coming. that that. thank you, nicole. at war with cyber criminals. they get hit with 10 million hacks every month. jason glassberg, cofounder. all right, jason, the government will spend $50 million to fight cyber crime. it does not sound like a great deal of money. >> you can and you cannot. it is a very difficult problem. essentially, you are playing a ca

as the drizzle turns to deluge in santa rosa, lines inside the home depot were long as the rush for last minute supplies and sand were on. oscar gonzalez was getting 40 bags for his neighbor. inside the sonoma county office of emergency services, it was eeriely quiet. county workers were prepping for a hyundai of work while asking everybody else to stay at home. >> we are expecting there will be problems all over the county including sonoma valley, the coast, we will have problems everywhere. >> reporter: the concern not just the pounding rain in the heart of wine country, but the river stalling out over the north bay and the access water that will come down the russian river bay season from mendocino county. we were talking about exactly how soggy it is. this is the ground. it is already saturated at this point. as paul said, liz, we have not hit the brunt of this storm yet. live in sonoma county, andria borba, kpix5. >> the russian river in guerneville could rise nearly 32 feet in 24 hours! 32 feet! causing moderate flooding when it crests friday. the napa river is going to overflow at

the variousr about home-improvement tractor supply, home depot is also on the list. coverage of home-improvement retailers came out. liquidators continuing to like the home-improvement trend, but liking a smaller trend versus the home depots and the lows of the world. retailers, apparel not a lot of optimism. coming out with a note recently saying it is neutral on the softline sector. we have seen so many sales being offered this holiday season. there is concern about margins for many of these companies. we do not know what the sales numbers we will see, we do not know if all of this will pay off. it is a mixed bag when you look at retailers and which stocks you want to be buying coming out of the holiday season. >> thank you so much. our senior marcus corresponded. i want to bring back our guest host for the hour. jim lillie. i want to bring up your stock and how jarden has done. over the holiday season, you might expect your stock to hit the highest this year. in fact, not that expensive. around 17.8. not too bad compared to some of the other retailers. chart,u see

the store. so we like stories where there is something structurally advantaging them and we would say that would be companies like home depot and lowe's are companies which, like cvs, which has the health care tailwind. liz: great to see all of you with your ideas. they're like mini stocking stuffers for us. david: yeah. liz: john, christian, mark sebastian. mark we'll see you in a few minutes when the s&p futures close. david: appreciate it. liz: we were talking about oil prices sliding lower today, hitting $55 a barrel. many believe this decline in oil now at 39% sips the start of the year. will it help the economy and lift some sectors but profiting from lower energy prices might be a little more complicated than investors realize. david: joining us, greg zuckerman, "wall street journal" special writer and author of, the frackers. this guy knows everything bit. we'll talk a little bit about that everybody knows energy stocks have taken a hint sill oil prices have come down but you talk about some other sectors that have taken a hit that may not be thought of in the same category. banking, how does banking take a hit from

going to change the more that you see some of these higher profile breaches with things like the home depot and the target breach. you know, data being stolen. as some of these devices start to fail or be manipulated, i think you might see some real urgency on the part of the users of those devices to start protecting themselves. it's going the take people getting, you know, wounded really, i think, to focus the attention. yes. >> we're going to have to -- we'll take the questioners already lined up, but after that i think -- >> well -- >> promise to go fast. >> this will be, this will be quick. this is not universally important, but i manage a web site that is connected, that is part of my church community. in october we had a huge spike of hits on the web site, and the dashboard report showed that almost 50% of those hits on the web site came from china. does that mean the red army is monitoring our church web site? >> it depends what you know, what are you into? >> i mean, it's totally innocuous. it's important for those of us in the community but could not possibly have any kind of univ

>>s every time i am here talking about the wal-mart heart attack or the home depot hack, everybody companyaves their flag and says we have upgraded it. and it happens again. >> i got a new credit card. it has a new chip on it. >> yeah. >> not all companies have 70s that out. >> no. we are backwards in this country in america when it comes to that. again, that's not even the issue. if it goes in, you are using it, that presents freedom skimming your credit card information t presents people from stealing thousands of card numbers from badly maintained systems at big companies. >> badly maintained systems at sony? >> yes. >> you think? >> more than likely, someone brought in a usb drive that has somehow been contaminated from somewhere, from somehow. all you have to do is plug it in once. similar to a sexual thing. you have to plug it in once without taking care of it and it can go everywhere. >> you have a portal to get all of the information >> and this information, this malwear could have launched months ago, years ago. it could have been sitting dormant until a hacker said it's time. >>

fundamentally these interrogations of all the detainees gave us a home depot-like storage of informationn al qaeda on which we relied -- we are still relying on it today. bill: you are quoted as saying it led you to 8,000 intelligence reports. but the report undercuts that number. it makes the case of 0% of -- making the case that 70% of detainees produced no reports. >> one of the other disputes, we got 8,000 intelligence reports and i said in 2006 that i had been told by agency officers about that time we fully credited 50% of our knowledge of al qaeda from detainee debriefings across the board. you equitable? i actually saw a figure that 38% of all of our reports in 2004 came from our detainees. we can argue around the edges but that's not the argument they make. the argument they make was we got zero intelligence that was not otherwise aavailable from this program. bill: did dianne feinstein and other members of congress, did they know about this system the entire time? >> not the entire time. senator feinstein did not. the congress, the gang of 4 and the gang of 8 knew this from the

host: what is the difference between what happened to sony and target, home depot and other retailers? guest: it's an interesting difference because financial gain was the main motivation in the home depot, target, and other retailer data breaches. in those instances things like credit card information were taken. in others it was email accounts , personal names, addresses, phone numbers. those are all thing that is can either be sold on the blact market for prolvet or can be used to then go hack someone's bank account and create bank fraud, fraudulent charnls et cetera. that was the case in the jp morgan attack. that was the intent at least. and in this case the hackers wanted to be discovered. in target and sony hackers roomed around the system for days, weeks months. in this instance the hackers went in and announced their presence. they did not have essentially a main financial motivation here. so it really does represent a different kind of attack. more similar to something we might see from anonymous, which is a hacking group that is more activist oriented. they hack for politic

they know the experience of a sense that the small nursery can't compete against home depot, and not because the small nursery isn't doing more innovative things. it's because they're both buying the same clay pot for a dollar, but home depot is getting tax subsidies that the small nursery is not. but the experience of, say, you know, big cable having political power and market power. time warner in new york state, people know that time warner isn't in a competitive industry and has too much power. that was really resonant. and i found that when i talked about those together with campaign finance, that actually could move people to a sense of, oh, we can have a different system. i think we need to fix both. i think we need to fix the way that we fund campaigns. and i think we need to remember and revive antitrust and break up these companies that are playing sort of governmental roles. >> but this is a perfect example of the way this issue is not partisan, right. because you take luigi zingales, who is a libertarian conservative economist on the university of chicago business school f

the home depot has goes were worse for the consumer, with people's credit card information and personal information that could be used to do identity fraud. the sony one was such a bigger thing, it happened to a bigger company, we saw private emails and it truly became an issue of national security. >> it was blamed on a sovereign country, north korea. looking ahead, magazines predict that there will be more hacks. is that because hackers feel emboldened? >> absolutely. i think 2015, things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. i think they have to, because we need our legislators and our population to start demanding better protection, better laws, and better ways of keeping data safe. >> some of us are going to start using those banking pass books. >> using cash. >> workers at the postal service delivered more than 28 million pieces of mail on monday alone. that broke a record. the post office isn't just getting your stuff from point a to b., it's also helping many americans do very good deeds. >> christmas in manhattan, and only a few blocks, we elaborately decorated s

the fed will not tighten any time soon. a place like home depotas to be extremely well-placed during 2015. >> how much has the market discounted about the impact of the lower oil prices? >> i think markets reasonably assume that this is going to be a short-term low in prices before a recovery next year. i see two years of low oil prices. there will be significant benefits to the u.s., but also to europe and japan. >> put an overlay of the dollar on to that. how does the story work differently with a strong dollar? tothat is what we are going see in relative terms. the weakening yen and the weaker euro. i see some great opportunities in japan. companies like toyota are very well placed to generate significant shareholder value. >> what about the chemicals companies? if you are a company that is dependent on oil for some of your products, who is the most operationally geared in terms of the european industrials? >> we do think there is real gearing to the oil price, but also in terms of the demand that is the result of low cost. that story is likely

this is the home depot off golf course drive here in santa rosa, that is the very latest here in theorth bay. charles clifford, kron 4 news. >>> people are preparing for the big storm tomorrow. residents on pine street are cutting down a huge tree. that's the same location where a tree came down during the rain last week. one car was crushed. no one was injured. today, the property owner has hired these tree removers and residents are relieved that the remaining trees are being removed ahead of the storm. >> the flooding gets bad in certain areas here. >> right here on 88 lth, down the street, a big dip that goes down and i've seen the street as far as 3-4 deep where the cars floating around like boats. down the street and around the corner off of 87th, the street park plaza that gets flooded. we'll be watching out there as well as 88th street. >> the chief says they are working with county officials to get more sandbags brought in. some homes have put up walls in front of the homes to protect against flooding. >>> the po tension l is the pry carry concern. we find kron 4's -- public

he wrote the news about the hack attack at home depot. r security journalist next. ♪ >> welcome back to the best of "bloomberg west." i'm emily chang. from the target breach to the infrastructure warm, brian krebs has played role in exposing some the world's biggest cyber threats. a first person to report on the massive breach at home depot. he has learned russian, travel to eastern europe, and adopted aliases to talk to the hackers he communicates with. >> if you're going to sell something, you don't put it under a bucket. you tell the world. you tell people that you have these fresh new credit cards. come to our store and don't go to the other guys. they will put ads out there. they will say get your balances ready to read we are about to push a new batch of fresh cars out there. whenever i see that, i wait for them to do it. i look at it and i reach out to sources in the financial i just lookeday, through this cash they are selling it looks like they have 10,000 of your customers cards that just went on sale. what do we do about it? you

it seems they wanted to embarrass sony more than anything else, which is different from the target or home depot breach, where the presume, trying to profit on this information they are putting out there into the cyber world. i would say is if anything it seems the interview, this movie that the hack attack is potentially in retaliation for, a comedy about kim xiong own only gotten more publicity. -- a comedy that kim shot on -- , only gotteng-un ow more publicity. makes this attack so unique is this was in fact an absolute targeted attack. these guys were looking to get sony. they did everything they could to get sony. they even coded a specific attack against sony. many other breaches we have seen, those were kind of like targets of opportunity. they presented an ability for attackers to go in and took advantage of that opportunity. in this case these folks were targeting sony. >> a line that grabbed me, you mentioned something called the korean computer center hacking effort with offices in many countries. why the uae of all places are they allowed to operate? >> it is an interesting question

people waited in long lines at the santa rosa home depot to get sandbags. inside the sonoma county office of emergency services, it was eerily quiet. county workers were prepping for a long day of work while asking everyone else to stay home. >> there will be problems all over the valley, including sonoma valley and the coast everywhere. >> emergency workers are concerned about the excess water that will come rushing down the russian river basin from mendocino county. >>> san francisco, like many bay area cities, has been preparing for this big storm, a lot of work being done to keep this part of the mission from turning into a lake. the area was built on a lagoon and mission creek years ago. so when it rains water flows downhill and pulls in that general area. >> the neighborhood has flooded five times in four years damaging homes, businesses and cars and yesterday, workers put up floodgates and plugged up drains that are notorious for flooding. many residents plan to park in other neighborhoods during the storm. >> and rain here in the bay area means a who

the home depot cofounder. on set, and at 7:30 eastern, the story behind the nfl's story, and then a cnbc survey of millionaires reveal who the wealthy prefer, who they like in the 2016 presidential race. and "time" magazine set to release person of the year. is it putin? taylor swift? i like theed why of the ebola care giver. those people are different. >> all the people putting themselves -- selfless. >> different than the rest of us. the epitome of the hippocratic oath, and they won't get it. >> i hope they do. >> what about the nurse who came back? >> you're mad at her because she flew? you're not mad? i don't remember. >>> welcome back, everybody, trying this again. new predictions, david bianco, the chief equity strategist for deutsche bank, joining us again. you can hear us this time, right? >> yes, good to see you, good to hear you. >> excellent. david, tell us about your predictions, what do you expect for the s&p 500? >> constructive for 20 15 and the next few years. i think we'll get mid single digits

the price tag. first up, home depot, sometimes the secret codes are color-coded. >> clearance product. >> reporter: savings is found in the last two digits of the price. at home depot, prices ending in 06 mean six weeks until the next markdown. 03, three weeks until mark down. the chain's best deal. james turned to his secret code-cracking weapon for confirmation, the store employees. >> it's insider stuff. you're not supposed to know that. >> reporter: this employee agreed to share in silhouette another store secret from home depot, sometimes the price is adjustable if there's a customer service issue. >> every employee is eligible to up to a $50 adjustment if it's warranted. >> reporter: next up, target. james says prices ending in 98, 88, 04 and 24 indicate clearance items. but to know how much you're really saving, you may need a magnifying glass. >> this number on the right-hand corner. that's the percentage off the original price. >> reporter: 70% off. and the good news is if target has a lot of product inventory, chances are prices will drop more. so what's the rule and how long you should w

governor brown is gonna have to deploy the national guard to home depot's glove aisle.laughter) folks, i say we must keep these danger-ish criminals behind bars. and not just to punish them. >> for decades, california has used inmates to fight fires and clear land to stop the spread of wildfires. physically fit inmates with no history of violent crimes can work as firefighters while serving their sentence. >> the recently-passed initiative could free such prisoners from jail and deplete the pool of inmates who qualify for fire duty. >> stephen: that means the next time there's a fire, you could be stuck in your home and there won't be a convicted felon rushing towards you with an axe. (laughter) california needs these prisoners. so when federal judges ordered their release, the state attorney general's office fought to keep the prisoners working in their fire brigade. and it's not just about the lives these prisoners save, it's about something much more important -- the money. because corrections officials say the fire program saves the state more than $100 million a ye

it seems they wanted to embarrass sony more than anything else, which is different from the target or home depot breach, where the hackers are, we presume, trying to profit on this information they are putting out there into the cyber world. one thing i would say is if anything it seems the interview, this movie that the hack attack is potentially in retaliation for, a comedy about kim jong-un has only gotten more publicity. you have seth rogen and james franco, the actors on "saturday night live" and we're you will talking about it. isn't that ironic? >> it's funny how these things turn out. the one thing i would also point out on what makes this attack so unique is that this was in fact an absolute targeted attack. these guys were looking to get sony. they did everything they could to get sony. they even coded a specific attack against sony. many other breaches we have seen, those were kind of like targets of opportunity. they presented an ability for attackers to go in and took advantage of that opportunity. in this case these folks were targeting sony. they were looking to get sony and only

i'm thinking the likes of home dep depot, walmart and target has figured things out. i don't need amazon. how about netflix. for ages seemed to rule the roost of non-network programming. i think the coffin tent companies like time warner are tired of being rolled by netflix are now coming up with strategies to beat netflix at it its own game. doubly bad. you don't have to lose gobs of money to have an internet service. if you really like it you have still one more reason to own, not netflix but content generat generator, time warner. think the market hasn't notice. do you know time warner stock has almost fully regained. i think is amazing. now component makers and flash companies that keep getting recommended by wall street still love apple despite massive market campaign because it is cheap on earnings versus average stock in s&p 500. this market respects companies that are doing more with less. it respects companies that are firing not hiring while still selling more products and bringing more revenue to the bottom line and perhaps returning more of that to sharehol

the usual suspects, home depot, lows, target rallied. don't forget the move if oil stays down and comparisons last year when the weather was bad. the consumer was dealing with pain at the pump will be nothing short of spectacular. the third sign that the consumer strength produces wows at 56% of lending club, which brings lenders and borrowers together over the internet with the need for traditional bank. consider it crowd source lending. the fact there is this much enthusiasm without the credit risk i found amazingly positive. the fourth one, the forth good news was initially a negative. i'm talking about the conference call yesterday afternoon from toll brothers that hammered the stock and brought downgrades that were silly. the best builder of luxury homes reported a strong number then gave guidance that indicated longer term that the housing market will get stronger but analysts didn't talk about the notion demand is rising and over the long run its assured by population growth, no, the next. i'm sure the markets, too. pretty much cal

the best deals could be on appliance so check sears and home depot. es are on sale, they are slashed today. gentleman's -- has 20 percent off. wait until before christmas, but this year we expect the best prices of the season today on cyber monday. >> the hottest toys is anything frozen, elsa doll for $28.88 is the hottest toy of the year. >> don't just click check out without looking for a coupon code. sears used cyber 25 to give another 25 percent off. do a google search for coupon or promotion code. we have many more deals his today on our website and this is only the beginning. go to abc7news.com for a long list of deals. happy shopping, everyone. >>> 6:08. >> right now time to check with our meteorologist, here for meteorologist mike nicco, lisa? >>> live doppler hd shows a few spotty showers around san mateo and 280 with wet pavement and the north bay, a littling soy here from highway 1 to 101 in marin county and fog in the east bay valley. be careful headed out. the storm system is well offshore but it is sending mild air ahead of us and by thur

on to the next topic, home depot, jpmorgan, and now sony. me of the companies hacked putting consumers and employees personal information at risk. global 2015 bring us? and so adam, it's great to have you here privacy is your biggest concern. what is going on with sony? >> this is a decimation of a company. i've never seen anything like this happen before. the level of viciousness and the level of this, it is scorched earth. and normally you say there is an economic basis for this and we are upset about what the hacks occur. and here this is way more. gerri: it has caused some to wonder if it is an inside job. >> there were a lot of disgruntled employees. you see that there are a lot of disgruntled opinions all over the place. but at the end of the day even though the fbi said 90% of the companies in this country could not have withstood an attack like this one, the fact of the matter that it brings into complete focus is exactly how much trouble we are in with corporate data security. gerri: i think that 2015 will be even worse. >> i think t

the hit as it confirmed a massive breach just days before christmas last year and the neiman markus michaels home depot and staples with similar breach confirmations. numerous surveys say consumers are concerned about data breaches this holiday season but perhaps not enough to stop shopping at a retailer that suffered a breach. >> you think about it, but sometimes you go there for deals. some of them are pretty big deals. it's hard to not shop there. >> reporter: while a survey of more than 5,000 consumers revealed data security is a concern for 76%. more than half still don't let it keep them from shopping a retailer that has experienced a data breach and just about a quarter of those say they will use a different form of payment as a result of a breach. >> it was just that fear. the same way with t.j. maxx a couple of years ago. we had to ask for a new card. it's that uneasy feeling that holds a customer back. >> reporter: others just feel safer using cash this christmas. >> we use cash all the time. >> i feel safer when i use cash in store. i'm a college student and like to use my debit card a lot.

this is the 30 bypass close to home depot. no eastbound delays as you head toward exton. if you're coming down the boulevard on the twin bridges heading to the schuylkill expressway on time no delays or problems in your way. on the big picture on the schuylkill expressway i-95 things are moving well so far this morning. in frankford we have the buildings fire blocking arrit street between oakland and horrocks. >> breaking right now, police made a gruesome discovery in stowt jersey, they -- in south jersey, they found the body of a woman in the trunk of a car. katherine scott has more. >> reporter: investigators have been here for hours, no charges have been filed in the case. you can see that crime scene tape is circling the area in maple shade as police remain on the scene. they have been concentrated around the white car near the quality inn on route 38. police say a woman's body was found in the trunk of that vehicle. this investigation began late last night when family members called police, we are told they were concerned about her safety. police were able to trace th