brian krebs.ry much. >> thanks a lot. >> ifill: for the past year and a half, scientists have been trying to figure out what's behind a mysterious disease that's led to the death of millions of starfish. now they've figured out the culprit, a virus. sea star wasting syndrome has affected more than 20 species of west coast starfish. first detected in washington state last year, it's since spread, decimating populations from mexico all the way to alaska. this story comes from katie campbell at kcts in seattle. she reports for the public media project earthfix. >> reporter: after months of research, scientists have identified the pass gen at the heart of the star wish wasting disease. they say it's different from all other known viruses infected marine organ subpoenas. they stubbed it sea star dense owe virus. >> it's very clear that the virus is associated with symptomatic sea stars. >> reporter: he's a micro biologist at cornell university. he's the lead author of the study. and he says it's rare t

. >> we spoke with the security researcher, brian krebs, who talked a little bit about the state of cyber war around the world. i want you to take a listen to what he had to say. >> i would argue that we're in a cyber war every day with other nations trying to get access to our research and development. we're talking about stuff that costs tens of billions of dollars over many, many years to develop, or you can just steal it. >> that was in response to a question, could a cyber war be world war iii. what would you have to say about the state of cyber warfare today, liam? is it world war iii already? >> well, when we saw stuffnet that, opened people's eyes to what's going on and what's going on. we had physical destruction of equipment. we continue to see these sorts of campaigns, large spy governments against other countries and against telecoms, against individuals, that are really capable of stealing absolutely everything on the computer. that's the world that we live in today. i wouldn't say it's world war iii, but certainly there are lots of countries doing this. they're very, very ca

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