s. cybersecurity director, christopher krebs says that no business is truly safe. i think the take away right now is if you're a corporate executive or state local government agency had, and you thought that you would be spared, that criminals wouldn't go after you. guess what, they went after our gas and they went after our hot dogs. no one is out of bounds. here. everyone is in play and every single corporate executive needs to be convening their cybersecurity teams and their business resilience teams today to understand what their continuity plans are. how are they going to recover from a hack? that's former us cybersecurity director, christopher krebs, now the world lost 144000000 jobs last year due to the pandemic. according to the international labor organization, the figure takes into account positions that would have been created, but were not because of the crisis. and the effects a set to linger, as you can see here, compared to 2019 the number of jobs globally is expected to continue to drop this year and next about tourism and hospitality, which include

indeed, christopher krebs, the nation's top cyber security official at the department of homeland securityt secure in american history and with were untainted by irregularities. president trump responded by firing christopher krebs for having told the truth when even attorney general william barr couldn't find the evidence of systemic fraud. trump parted ways with him too. it would have been awful enough for an american president to borrow the playbook used too often by foreign autocrats, but the calamity was made worse by the willingness to endorse trump while he tried to overturn the results of his defeat, unmoved by trump's apparent madness and the toll it was taking on the integrity of the country's institutions. and of course that effort has only grown in pace and scope since then. the effort to undermine the results of the 2020 election is now the animating force within the republican party, which more than anything is working on rescinding voting rights and seizing partisan control. it shows no sign of slowing down, quite the contrary. here's one very important point that steve make

christopher krebs is joining us. he's now with the krebs stamos group. alex marquardt is still with us as well. chris, let's talk about this statement, a blunt statement from the fbi director chris wray in the "wall street journal" comparing the scope of the latest cyber attack threats against the united states to what happened here in the u.s. on 9/11. this is a dire warning. how does the country respond to this? >> well, wolf, thanks for having me on. i think when you put the current ransomware crisis in the context of 9/11, i think there are some striking similarities when we're talking about non-state actors who have launched a series of attacks against the united states. really, my take-away from director wray's statements from yesterday's memo prioritizing ransomware investigations at the department of justice from the deputy national security advisor, from the president's comments, from the press secretary's comments, from secretary of homeland security, all of them point to the same thing, the government is taking ransomware seriously, and this i

. >>> perspective now from christopher krebs from the department of homeland security, also a cnn nationalmer national intelligence director, james clapper. chris, director wray is making this parallel, likening these attacks to terror attacks. do you agree with that assessment? >> well, i certainly think that it's important that the fbi elevate the priority of tackling ransomware gangs akin to the terrorist threat of 9/11. i think that's in part what you're hearing here. at the same time, you're seeing the deputy national security advisor, the deputy attorney general, the secretary of homeland, all making a very clear statement that ransomware is a top priority for this administration. >> director clapper, the 9/11 commission report, there were failures leading up to the attacks, one of the biggest the failure of imagination. is our government failing again on that front? are they doing enough? >> i don't think there's a failure of imagination here. the intelligence community has long identified hacktivists and criminals as a problem. dan coats did when he was dni. i think, though, that w

christopher krebs, the former director of the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency said last of a global digital pandemic. he was talking about the explosion of cyber crime. fbi director christopher wray concurs explaining that the dramatic rise of the new form of crime has shaken the american security apparatus much like the 9/11 attacks did in 2001. in fact the escalation of cyber crime is a for more pervasive problem than terrorism. as we connect more and more stuff to the internet, all of us become more and more vulnerable to hackers who could compromise any person or business through the web and steal their data or freeze them out until they pay a ransom. the pandemic accelerating the transition to a digital economy and thus accelerating cyber crime. by one estimate, ransomware attacks tripled in the last year. we actually don't know the true extent of this problem because much of it remains unreported. many companies large and small keep mum out of fear of inviting bad publicity and future attacks an legal consequences. cybersecurity ventures estimates that damage will

cybersecurity director, christopher krebs, said today the problem is urgent. >> they went after our gasnt after our hot dogs. no one is out of bounds here. everyone is in play. and every single corporate executive needs to be convening their cyber security teams and their business resilience teams today to understand what their continuity plans are. >> woodruff: gangs linked to russia are blamed for the recent attacks. white house officials say president biden will raise that with russian president vladimir putin at their summit this month. the meat processing giant that was targeted this week, jbs, was restoring operations today in north america and australia. the company said a vast majority of its plants have returned to work. jbs is the second-leadin producer of beef, chicken and pork in the u.s. democrats in the u.s. house of representatives have added to their narrow majority with a special election win in new mexico. melanie stansbury easily took tuesday's vote. she'll succeed deb haaland, who was named interior secretary. the national football league pledged today to stop using

joining us now is christopher krebs, the former director of the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, cisa, and the founder of a cybersecurity firm. chris, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> we don't have a ton of information, actually, about what has gone on here, but what leaps out to you? what strikes you? >> well, first, thanks for having me on. well, i think as we step back and look over the last several months, even going back into last fall when hospitals were getting locked up by ransomware, i think the macro economic level, we still have a long way to go in understanding the systemic risk that drives our economy. we don't know where to make the right investments necessarily beyond just the peanut butter approach. second, at the sector level, particularly for pipelines as well as food distribution, i think decades of deregulation and consolidation is introduced aggregated risk. so when we have events like this, there is a shock to the system. we need to, just like in the prior segment, we need to have an increased diversity and move away from a just-in-time deliv

krebs earlier this week. it is now according to the fbi a national security challenge along the lines of 9/11. from the "wall street journal" quote fbi director christophere current spate of cyber attacks by the challenge imposed with the 2011 terror attacks. there's a lot on us. there's a shared responsibility, not just across government agencies but across the private sector, and even the average american. this recognition of the scale of the challenge now facing the country and the threat of ransomware attacks posed to every day life for all americans comes after two high profile ransomware attacks caused disruptions for millions across this country. in just the last few weeks, an attack on jbs, the world's largest meat supplier, took several processing plants offline. and a cyber attack in may shut down a gas line that delivers half of the fuel used on the east coast. it caused fuel shortages in 12 states and the district of columbia. the owner of the pipeline ended up paying $4.4 million in ransom to the attackers. both are attributed to hackers based in russia. in his interview with the "wall street journal," fbi director chris wray said this, he s