from the us for example that there are bot nets which exclusively post for example far right content in the us but nets are groups of fake accounts that can be automated to. like in post together you can tell a boat by looking at the three a's which are activity and an image see an amplification on that is if there's an example here whose handle is dreamed of dust which appears to be a u.s. based account it's fifteen months old in those fifteen months it's posted three hundred nineteen thousand tweets per day you have the activity that's a ridiculously high figure in terms of anonymity the avatar picture is a cartoon image not a real person and the biography is just a collection of program phrases and then if you look at the amplification all you see is it's sharing stories to its two thousand six hundred followers neemo also showed us what appeared to be a commercial bot for higher screen name is something like you did you did you it's a it's a random scramble of letters which is often a sign that you found a bot the account was part of a larger commercial but no under the law just

bot nets, we know those rely on who is to do their work effectively. who is, valuable is information for safe have i internet consumers making sure the website they're using is legitimate. it's a simple service, but it's the cornerstone of trust and accountability on the internet. those of you who participate in ican know who is is under constant review for years and essential character has not changed much since its inception in the early '80s. the utility remains critically important for those who rely upon it. the last few months the service of essential character has been threatened. in response to the european union's general data protection regulation,ican assessed the rule and given limited personal information for users who register internet doemains. many european officials have noted only limited changes to who is would be necessary to achieve gdpr compliance. still there are some who are trying to take advantage of the situation by arguing that we should erect barriers to the quickly and easily accessible who is information. and some have ar

a second component focused on cost and position, from bot net disruptions to other kinds of sanctioning activities, importantly reinforce multilateral limit i'm a big component of a cyber stability board, coalition of the of the willing working to ensure the most effective way of doing cost in position. those two components then supported by an integrated fusion center. it provides situational awareness, combined the best of intelligence both in the commercial and from the national security community with law enforcement and active defense actions. focused on a campaign that is centralized in its planning but decentralized in its execution. from my perspective it really requires both cultural and legislative enablingers. cultural the president must lead and rally the nation. there's opportunities already this week that can be used to help with that. the infrastructure proposals a great example. i don't see anything about resilience in the infrastructure proposal. we should have a way of norpg, especially as we're building new infrastructure, methods and strategies and incentives for str

our cyber task force will look at a range of issues including cyber intuitions and bot nets and ransom ware and many of the challenges you're dealing with on a regular basis. >> you mentioned cryptocurrency. some commentators referred that them as anonymous currencies and one of the motivations that users or purchasers or sellers of that may have besides speculation and profit is anonymity, perhaps anonymity to mask criminal activity. do you have a ueview or concern about how worried people should be about anonymous currency being used for criminal activity? mr. rosenstein: i think every new technology finds early adopters in people with criminal intent. and cyber currency is no different. of course it's not true that anything is really fully completely anonymous, right? we all know that there are ways to trace criminal activity, generally speaking it's not necessarily just about cyber activity. there'll be other ways that people leave trails. ultimately they're going to want to convert, even if they're dealing in cyber currency, they'll try to convert that, launder it, into physical c

good good telltale if it's coming from some individual's name in fact they probably are part of a bot net of computers that are used to send this out but sometimes the e-mail address that sending it may even look close so you do look for that you look for the grammar problems but like you said anyone can get a a low goal i used to work in a prison in the there's a the old con artists there said when they did it it took talent now any fourth of the computer now what's this i hear about a new social security scam you don't similar to the same type of phishing thing and seniors are particularly targeted and there's an interesting reason why there's a part of the brain as we age that controlled skepticism that becomes less viable cornell just did a study about this so the senior will get an email or a text message again from social security telling them there's been a computer problem and this is the what the scam is now the computer problem requires us to reconfirm our social security number of course it's not from social security and you turn over that social security number and that identi

than it was a few years ago, so, that's a dilemma, but when we were looking at it, you can rent bot nets. you can rent malware programs. you can buy malware. you can buy ransomware, so ransomware is a commodity industry now at the low end and we actually thought-- i don't know if you thought this, we thought at one point, we're in the wrong line of work, this is so easy now, it's become a market. so finding ways to recognize the commoditization of seib cybercrime is advanced stuff. both of us decided we'd rather be researchers and not in jail than cybercriminals and in jail. >> now what, john, it's good to have you here. john is the head of the day-to-day operations of dhs's national cybersecurity and integration center. to a big point, this is our governments 24/7 hub by sharing, incident response and coordination. you know, dhs plays the central role for the u.s. government detecting civilian agencies and managing the outreach with the private sector. so, it's a pleasure to have you here. you know, one of the great issues we haven't really dealt with that much yet is the question of wh

>> we know, for example, who is funding these bot nets and which people in russia are organizing themcan trace the money? >> in some cases. it's been done before. you can warn russia privately. if you guys do this, we will come for you. >> but if russia, i'm guessing, saw tillerson say yes, they're coming again, it's not something dissimilar from what cia director pompeo said. every expectation they will try to do that. he said we'll push back in a way that's sufficient. not a lot of tough talk for russia. i'm shocked. >> fbi director christopher wray announced in january they set up something called the foreign influence task force. they are trying to combat this. they're supposed to warn people when they're compromised by foreign influenced social media. as we saw with release the memo, this propaganda network is working. that release the memo was propelled by a russia influenced campaign that was later seized on by house republicans and alt-right people. this is working and the federal gofrmt is doing very little to stop it. >> i'm thinking about what happened yesterday. so, americ

russians are very good at, all of the fake accounts on twitter and facebook, the internet trolls, the bot nets, it's critically important that the american people understand this is a fundamental attempt of russia to influence our very democratic institutions and our critical infrastructure in our elections, indeed are a part of that critical infrastructure. so last year when the intelligence community assessed that putin seize his attempt to influence the last election as a success, that he's going to do it again. that's what the intelligence community's conclusion was. just last week, the director of the c.i.a. said, just last week, that he had every expectation that russia will meddle in the 2018 midterm elections. so as the senator from maryland just said, as the senator from rhode island has already said, this isn't a partisan issue. it can happen to both sides. attempts to influence our elections are attacks on the very foundation of the democracy that we so cherish. that's really what the russians are trying to do. they're trying to divide us. they're trying to undermine faith in our de

net. sending out hundreds of posts, picking up the gun why can't these bots be reigned in? a country that staunchly defends free speech anonymity on the internet. it's hard to impose, in a global profile, e privacy right? but here in the united states, allow anonymity on the internet. > when you pose as a chinese cyberspy, we have these 13 russians being indicted what action can we expect from russia? >> people asked me right before election, what do you expect? there are times there is just that's ed diligence and one of those times. this indictment, i didn't find surprising. i would imagine there are many want to influence elections in many other countries and one of the tools disposal is our information operations are influence operations where you chaos.t magnify >> i'm not going to make a response to the foreign policy but given ed states your technical expertise, we hear about a bloody nose this is to north korea, the equivalent of that in cyber. do we at some point really have in a limited way to brush them back from the plate to use a different sports analogy? will

net. >> just sending out hundreds of posts, picking up the gun control debate, why can't these bots be reinede a country that staunchly defends free speech and anonymity on the internet. this is a privacy issue. each culture will set the bar for what privacy means to them. it's hard to impose, in a global economy one privacy profile, right? but here in the united states, we allow anonymity on the internet. or at least conditional anonymity. we also allow the free expression of ideas. >> when you pose as a chinese cyber spy, you were expecting retaliation from china. the fact we have these 13 russians being indicted what sort of action can we expect from russia? >> it is hard to say. a lot of times people asked me right before the election, what do you expect from russia? there are a lot of times when there is just heightened diligence and that's one of those times. this indictment, i didn't find surprising. i would imagine there are many nations that want to influence elections in many other countries. and one of the tools you have at your disposal is information operations are influence oper

bots andertake the say the yield is moderately appealing. let's get to juliette solly. juliette. paribas says netme in at 1.4 3 billion euros in the fourth quarter. the cfo told bloomberg the french bank is coping well with low rates in its home market. >> if you look at the domestic markets, you do see it when you look at volumes and fees and all of that. we have a low interest rate environment. however, the low interest rate environments also have the cost of risk which are lower than what you expect. in bottom line is up 5% 2017. the president of the minneapolis fed said he does not think the financial crisis is imminent despite the recent market turmoil. neel kashkari made the comments in an exclusive interview with bloomberg. >> if the bond market and stock market are pricing in the lower long-term yields, that could be leading to higher valuations. i do not see a financial crisis on the horizon. we are paying close attention to it. juliette: even as u.s. stocks plunged, president trump was hailing the economy, praising his recently passed tax overhaul and telling voters in ohio that the u.s

bots , and figure out how to target them more effectively together. >> that was the senior policy advisor for the counter extremism project. the federal communications commission officially published that they are rolling back obama era neteutrality rules. the move is likely to open a floodgate of legal challenges from parties opposing the changes that empower internet service providers. mozilla and vimeo have already filed challenges to the sec's repeal. a loss for at&t and its time warner deal. says itice department does not have to identify if there were communications between the white house and jeff sessions. at&t has suggested that president trump's addict -- dislike of cnn's way to the decision -- cnn suede the decision -- swayed the decision. elon musk looks to offer broadband internet around the world. that story next. how silicon valley can push back on income inequality. this is bloomberg. ♪ apple is in talks to buy supplies of cobalt. it is one of the world's largest users of cobalt for its gadgets. it wants to ensure it has enough of the key ingredient in the midst of it shortage. x rocket carrying three satellites roared into space yesterday. it is part of a system that would provide internet access to remo

bots, all the electronic stuff, talk about real economics, what's happening. we had disney reporting. one of the things that disney reported is that they have a $1.6 billion net gain in the last quarter because of the tax change. they're already quantifying the amount of money, not insignificant at all, 1.6 billion, that they are attributing to the tax changes. are investors going to be convinced when they begin to see real advantages, money advantages, dollars and cents, bottom line changes because of the tax code, might that turn their sour mood around? >> there is no doubt that the, that the numbers on the economy and corporate earnings and bottom line of all of the tax reform is going to continue to improve, it will continue to get more positive data points on that going into the remainder of the rest of the quarter, or about a third of the way into the first quarter. that, the economy will continue to improve and corporate earnings are going to be solid but it is very possible that the fundamentals might fight the technicals here. maybe for another couple weeks. david: one fundamental you can't disagree with the fundamentals when disney is crediting tax

bots, and figure out how to more easily and effectively target them together. tara: that was terribl mueller, and selina wang. the federal communications commission officially published that they are rolling back obama era neteutrality rules. that is the federal government journal that lifts the agency rules. the move is likely to open a floodgate of legal challenges from parties opposing the changes that empower internet service providers. mozilla and vimeo have already filed legal challenges to the fcc's repeal. proposedr at&t in its time warner deal. the justice department says it does not have to identify if there were communications between the white house and jeff sessions. at&t has suggested that president trump's dislike of cnn swayed the decision. that was to oppose the takeover last year. an antitrust trial date has been set for march 19. xill ahead, elon musk's space successfully deployed a satellite thursday and looks to offer broadband internet around the world. that story ahead. facebook cofounder chris hughes on his new book and how silicon valley can push back on income inequality. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: apple is in talks to buy supplies of cobalt. that's according to people familiar wi

net. shery: just hours after the school shooting in florida, we had these twitter accounts linked to russia sending out hundreds of posts taking of the gun control debate. why can't these botsevin: we are a country that defends free speech and every culture will set their own bar for what privacy means to that. it is hard to impose in a global economy one privacy quote file. this one privacy profile. we allow conditional anonymity, we also allow the free expression of ideas. shery: when you exposed chinese cyber spies, you were expecting retaliation from china. the fact that we have 13 russians being indicted, what can we expect from russia? kevin: people ask me right before the election, what do you expect from russia. there are times when you expect hybrid diligence. i imagine there is many nations that want to influence elections and oneother countries, of the tools you have it your disposal is the information operations, influence operations , where you can just magnify chaos. david: i'm not going to make you responsible for foreign policy, but given your technical expertise, we hear about the bloody nose approach to north korea. is there an equivalent of that in cyber?

net neutrality that came out a month or two ago. during that debate we had learned that there were bots that dropped comments into the hopper that distorted the whole public comment period. how is that going to be stopped the next time we have a public comment period on a rule that's written by an agency? anybody want to answer that? and i'm out of time, so make it quick. ill' te i'll tell you what. we will not occupy the time of the committee. give me an answer to that in writing when you go back to your folks. this is a really important issue. i want to say this is a really important issue. from a terrorist standpoint from all of the questions asked before. but our democracy is at risk here. we have to figure out how to get it done right and quickly or we may not have a democracy to have you guys up here to hear you out. >> thank you, senator tester. senator young? >> thank you, mr. chairman for holding this hearing on terrorism and social media. youtube went from having 40% of its posts take downs last june being identified by algorithms, ai and machine learning to 98% today. twitter went from roughly 33% detection of terrorist account