twitter ceo anthony noto's account was hacked this week, the second time he has had issues with his company'sduct. a few months ago, he sent a private message to his public followers. so how big of a problem is the direct messages if the ceo cannot even figure it out? brad stone asked that question to dick costolo. >> it is being able to take a public conversation private. we believe when you see these public conversations and you participate in them, there is a tremendous use case for taking the conversation to a private channel whether it is between you and a company -- how many times do you see people say i missed my flight at delta, virgin america united, please help me, and they respond. being able to take that context of any public conversation between two accounts to a private channel between one or more of those accounts, we think is a huge opportunity both for businesses and users on twitter and also there are times when you see a public conversation on twitter and you want to have a sidebar conversation with your friends about this thing happening. this is about enabling that and en

and twitter cfo anthony noto had his account hacked, and he was sending spam tweets.ackers also hit the page of delta airlines, and they said they have removed the objectionable content and are investigating the source of the hack. the white house is creating a new agency whose mission is to stop cyber attacks and improve information sharing about those attacks. the cyber threat intelligence integration center will collect that information from various government departments involved in cyber security including homeland security and the justice department. this follows the hacking of sony pictures and anthem among others. will it work? joining us via skype, micheal leider, former director of the u.s. national counterterrorism center and the crowdstrike chief security officer shawn henry formerly with the fbi. do we need another bureaucratic agency looking at this? >> if you put another layer into this area, you are creating this -- creating some problems. if this was described as the coordination of intelligence i think there is some value. there are multiple centers

it would appear that anthony noto was the victim of some sort of spamming scam.ount started sending out advertisements. but he quickly got it fixed. separately, newsweek's twitter was hacked yesterday and delta airlines' facebook was hacked as well. president obama is going to be in town friday talking about cyber security. in the meantime, he's creating a new agency to be the lead on cyber threats. they're going to call it the cyber threat intelligence integration center. right now, all kinds of agencies from fbi to secret service, even u.s. customs respond to cyber threats without some sort of central coordinating body. a win on wall street tuesday means we're back in the black for the year. apple will open this morning at a record high. and samsung is adjusting its privacy policy this morning to reassure people their televisions are not listening to them without their permission. samsung ran into controversy after it warned what you say near your television could be transmitted to voice recognition computers at silicon valley's nuance. the same company that po

you might call this the day of hacking because we now have word that anthony noto who is twitter's cfor account apparently hacked. there had been hundreds of nonsensical messages or tweet that is have been put out. we did contact our julia -- contacted twitter. they say they are aware and are working to delete those tweets. when asked what caused the issue, twitter told julia that it was premature to comment at this time. can't say that's necessarily a coincidence that a big cyber security -- once again, anthony's twitter cfo, apparently his twitter feed has been hacked and a lot of -- hundreds fshlg twug of nonsensical tweets have been going on fwiter. >> i'm just looking at an those ae twitter feed. this is funny. omg. when did you do this? >> i love that picture. >> it's obviously not anthony sending that out. >> it's going to be interesting to see how soon twitter can remedy that situation. 269 tweets. thank you, peter, have been sent over an eight minute period. that's pretty hefty. it appears that all tweets came from twitter for web ak twitter.com. >> okay. >> sue, thank you. >>

anthony, looks like noto clicked on a bad link.omebody got data information on any publicly traded company and then you have people trading on that. prooet pretty soon you have millions of people who made trades that should publicly traded executives be on twitter. >> it's fine, brian. i'm not -- i'm not really worried about that as an issue. in fact, you know i think that they're going to be issues with not just twitter, but with any link somebody gets in the e-mail. are you doing 50 things. you've let somebody in. i think -- you can only -- >> there's nothing on the internet that will help with ad reduction. your six-pack is already well defined. you don't need anything else. tony, what do you think? twitter took some heat. noto took some heat. maybe it's harmless but maybe not. >> unfair rap. he is only human. tech is not. as herb said you know all of us have made that mistake to hit send, to hit tweet before we want it to. i think the one thing it does raise if are you senior executive, do you want to contemplate having the two