cybersecurity services. as secretaries of homeland security came to us during the obama administration and now under the trump administration to ask for our help in rganizing the direct rate into a cybersecurity agency. reorganizing and rebranding mppd should enhance d.h.s.'s standing with respect to its international peers, clarify its organizational mission and boost work force morale. our expectation is with higher morale and mission clarity, d.h.s. will compete with the private sector and federal agencies like the n.s.a. and c.i.a. finally, they will be in a better position to carry out its infrastructure protection activities like risk and vulnerability assessments for banks, electrical grids and now election systems. we need mppd to carry out these activities swiftly and effectively and in a way that respects privacy and civil liberties and cannot expect it to work with one hand tied behind its back. this bill is a result of bipartisan negotiation and i thank chairman mccaul and the subcommittee chairm

internet with free and fair trade and accountability and cooperation are the principal of the cybersecurity strategy. north korea is more than a decade this malicious behavior is growing more egregious it is a step to holding them accountable but not the last step it also requires government and businesses to cooperate and increase the cost of hackers to defend america. president trump has route rallied allies in the free world to increase the security and resilience of the internet cooperation we can no longer afford to wait. with the corporate partners acting on their own initiative last week any direction by the government to disrupt those korean hackers. they attack in ways that spare many targets last week they disrupted the most operations as they were still affecting computers across the globe. they shut down accounts i am extremely proud of the hard and dedicated work for cybersecurity professionals and i'm happy today to have one of the finest. i will introduce jeanette manfra from dhs and i called today and the president calls today on the private sector to increase accountability

we need better cybersecurity in this country.let me bring you back to politics for just a minute. 1989 aftertalking in the 1988 the feud, we will be talking about the democratic party and have good idea. you had deal seagoing and you had gore and clinton emerging. who is emerging now from the democrats? donna: i have a list of about 52 of them. many of them are in the united states senate. i don't have a candidate, but i'm a message for democrats. this is our moment and we need to see is it. we need fresh blood, new energy, new faces because there are a lot of seats that are going to be up for grabs next year. we are going to see a lot more retirements and we need you to step up. i tell my students -- why you? because there's no one better. why now? tomorrow is not soon enough. shery: new energy on battling sexual harassment -- what do you expect? how important do you expect this issue to be in 2018? donna: many women and some men have come forward to tell the truth. i respect them. we should hear them. wey should be heard and sh

officials for a cybersecurity in west virginia they've added an national guard cybersecurity specialist to the staff. vermont secretary of state solicited the third party risk second amendment of dataa systems in 2015 leading to his office to build a new fire wall and began regular penetration testing. colorado's secretary offers endpoint protection software for counties to install on their computers to detect viruses and malware functions. many states have or are developing disaster preparedness systems. in louisiana, hurricane season, we are one of the states that is expert in the field. in terms of voting machine security, you remember that with the passage of the health america vote act in 2002 states were required to purchase at least one piece of accessible voting equipment for each polling place. the election assistance commission and national institute on standards and technology began updating the existing voting system guidelines to address new systems such as dres, last month the update was released to update voting system guidelines. the guidelines are set for manufacturing

the fantasy of ever better cybersecurity is delusional. we could spend half the gdp on network security and someone will still find a way to breach it. i know that we have everyone to this country to the computers and ipads and so forth, but i toll tell you that cybersecurity is a multibillion dollar hoax. and we're going to spend untold billions trying to come these systems as mr. cutner says is a fantasy. and i think the solution should be that we should go to the canadian system. i read several years ago that they had much smaller precincts used on the average of 500 people per precinct. and they use paper ballots. and i know that's old-fashioned, but i think we're headed down the wrong path here. it's a path that i'm sure we're going to go on. but i think that i agree with mr. cutner and also the findings of this def con report. anybody want to say anything? >> i'll just say louisiana's not one of the 28 states -- 21 states, excuse me. so you can scratch one off. >> all right. well, i yield back, mr. chairman. >> rank member demings, y

more than one year ago, we held a hearing entitled cybersecurity to ensure the integrity of the ballot box. we took a look at state and local integrity of our ballot machines. noted 21 states that hackers attempted to breach their infrastructure. in my own state of illinois, the hackers attempted to breach data. fortunately, they were unsuccessful. while we continue to learn the full scope of russia's election interference, one thing is clear, there will be another attempt to manipulate our elections. whether it be russia, another nation state or nonstate actor, or even a terrorist organization, the threats to our election infrastructure are growing. so what are we going to do about it? earlier this year, the researchers at def con were successfully able to hack machines in a day. the first vulnerabilities were discovered in 90 minutes. usb ports can be used to up load malware. despite these flaws, dre's are still commonly used. in 2016, 42 states used them. they were more than a decade old with some running outdated software no longer supported by the manufacturer. updating our machin

but in cybersecurity, it's very hard to defend. very easy to attack, and so if you have something where it's incredibly easy to attack, incredibly hard to defend, that creates some very unusual challenges, and i think we haven't quite figured out what to do about them, we certainly are not able to defend as well as we can, we're not willing to take the precautions that are needed and it really calls out for some big -- a lot more work in the decade ahead. people's intuitions are shaped by their everyday experience where there's more of a balance between attack and defense. in the world of cyber, there's no balance at all. attack is super easy, defense is super hard. maria: my thanks to peter thiel. don't go anywhere, more "wall street week" after this. announcer: the carlyle group has been a wall street powerhouse for decades, why is the iconic founder stepping down now? he explains next, when "wall street wee my "business" was going nowhere... so i built this kickin' new website with godaddy. building a website in under an hour is

but now cybersecurity experts say they've discovered a flaw. correspondent jeff rossen has more in in rossen reports. >> did you know now we deliver here? >> reporter: it's the new service from amazon. >> free in-home delivery from amazon key. amazon will authorize the delivery and unlock your doors. >> reporter: delivery person drops off package inside your home through this special lock and this camera. letting you watch it on your phone. but almost immediately after the launch, a cybersecurity company hacked the system. exposing a flaw, disabling the wifi and freezing the camera feed so it looks like nothing is going on at the front door. so that delivery person could have full access inside your home undetected. this homeowner letting us try it on her house. >> you're saying just that fast? >> almost instantly. >> almost instantly the camera is disabled inside. can walk into the house and she won't see us? >> exactly. >> that's incredible. >> reporter: look at side by side. nbc camera on the left, amazon on the right. our camera, clearly se

meet cybersecurity expert and former fbi operative eric o'neill. in 2001, he helped capture one of the most notorious spies in united states history, robert hanssen. now eric is an internationally known cybersecurity expert committed to fighting one of the biggest threats to our security in today's world, udentity theft. - one of the misconceptions about identity thieves is that they just steal credit cards. that they're going for the swipe and then they put fraudulent charges on your card and you can just get your bank to take care of it. it's bigger than that. it's global. it's somebody online who's stealing your information directly from computer systems. because all your information is out there. the internet was never meant to protect information, it was built to share information. identity thieves know all the intricate ways that they can exploit that imperfect system in order to steal your information. and so it's important for us to attack the problem ourselves, to take personal responsibility for our identities. - [narrator] you may think

[speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] >> cybersecurity is a big issue but there was an issue shortly before you left congress where your server was the site of a cybersecurity incident that there was unauthorized access with 17 different accounts. actually moving other members data onto your server that you learned about this the summer of 2016 so you blocked him but then replaced him with his wife and kept logging in anyway. but it is your physical server itself later disappeared so you didn't mention this to the 17 members whose data could have been affected now the server did disappear before he resigned so what happened especially with your law enforcement background are you seeking to press charges at a minimum with the rules of cybersecurity? >> go back and research your fa fax. i understand this matter is still under investigation and we have cooperated with the authorities in congress and within the federal government. check your facts there are number of things that are incorrect. i would urge you to talk to those who are doing the investigation. but check your fax the numbe

you know anything about here you think she's going to be good for cybersecurity the department of homeland security's the really sort of the head of all of these efforts what's your take well i think the fact that she's got some background in cybersecurity is important for all of us as we get further down this road where it infrastructure protection cyber security is the biggest piece of it now having the fact that she's got some background and it is important for all of us especially department of homeland security which is two hundred thousand employees in cover so many diverse things within our government the fact that she's got this background is going to be help for all of us are right now that that's the you know they say to me the federal government is so prone because they really haven't been aggressive in doing this and i know you spoke on this program not too long about the f.d.a. and and some of the violations there but do you think government overall is doing enough this is a big deal part of the obama administration too but do you think that this is going to remain high on the

th hass made based -- made a successful bid for aales cybersecurity.ed goldman sachs help review for a animal health business. according to people familiar, they are considering a potential ipo. it is with one of $15 billion. older polls look shallow -- voter polls look shallow this year. traders at banc of america are looking at their bonus fall more than 10%. bonusesn are set to get that are 5% smaller than a year earlier. that is your bloomberg business flash. still on "bloomberg markets." we will take look at the outcome for trading in 2018. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ marta live from bloomberg's new european headquarters in the city of london, i'm mark barton weak and in new york, i'm vonnie quinn. this is "bloomberg markets." 5%ders are likely to see a bonuses. it is more than other banks. environment, marianne lake said this. not many catalysts are that exciting. after low volatility, what can we expect next year? the senior analyst for your banks is joining us. if you are grumbling, you should be thankful it is only down 5%. allison: revenue will be

. -- seekingsleep to create a cybersecurity giant. ♪ anna: welcome to the program.s is "bloomberg markets: european open." --this is "daybreak: europe. " of more thanwhen 1% and again we see it moving higher this morning. it's moving up by one and a half percent. it's gone over $65 for the first time in two and a half years as matt was saying in the headlines. it's the most important pipeline of the world shut down. msci asia-pacific there as well. we are waiting for clues from a host of central banks to wear policies going to shift. those low as we wait for news to come through. aren't expected to move very far very quickly today. first day of the two-day meeting of the fed will hold. stocksght we saw u.s. touching new highs. technology and media stocks in the front line there. the commodities sector very interesting because we saw goldman sachs talking about this. they are talking about qualities over goldman's. energy will raise driven by oil. also, bitcoin is not taking demand away from gold. that is fascinating. in fact, we saw a big volume as bitcoin came to w

a surprise bid to buy the dutch cybersecurity provider. jim alto will have details, next.s is bloomberg. ♪ anna: this is "bloomberg daybreak: europe." 6:43 in london. 1:43 in new york. a nicely illuminated empire state building. futures higher once again. we hit you records in friday's trading session, didn't we? we have got further to go on the .ax story that remains the market's major pr to patient. bloomberg business flash, juliette saly. aerospaceanna, french specialists have knocked off the unsolicited attempts to buy .emalto as it outbid its rival it won the backing of the dutch cybersecurity provider. he offer for 61 euros per share comes less than one week after the 46 euro -- they responded by saying it will no longer pursue jim alto. unilever has agreed to sell its margarine and spreads business for 6.8 3 billion euros. it rids them a one of the worst performers as it focuses on faster growing food and personal care needs. the purchase of the division, whose brands include flora and i can't believe it's not butter, the biggest by announced in europe this year. co

on the issue of cybersecurity, america's cybersecurity networks are under attack. in september, we learned that equifax has been successfully hacked and 145.5 million people may have been affected by the breach. last week, it was also reported that 57 million people use uber, that they may have had their personal information stolen from a cyber attack in 2016. this cannot continue. fortunately, our committee has made strengthening dhs cybersecurity a top priority. in 2014, bipartisan committee efforts resulted in the enactment of legislation that provided dhs expedited hiring authorities, insured dhs is assessing its cybersecurity workforce, and clarified the department's role in cybersecurity in federal networks. in 2015, the cybersecurity act provided liability protections for public to private and private to private cyber threat information sharing. we have had some success. but we need to do better. and that is why this committee passed a bill to elevate the operational capabilities of dhs' cyber office to better protect digital america. and finally, on the iss

a number of states are governors have said come have set up cybersecurity councils. we have one in indiana and we're working with a local elected officials. we're running phishing e-mail campaigns so we can educate them on what to notice, what not to notice of what to click on, what to notice before they do that. we are working on multifactor access so that the passwords are stronger and so those are the things that we are doing in the state of indiana and i think most secretaries are doing that as well. i i wish you say that very first election i ran as an election administrators was 1989 in hendricks county, indiana. we use lab machines which are pretty -- lever -- there is probably one in this use them now but i'm dating myself but i will tell you that it would make you feel very well if you saw the way those results were taken in. we would get a written total from the precinct, and you have a tally sheet. i remember sitting on the floor with his huge tally sheet and numbers get transposed and you're adding all these up. it was a disaster. it really was. we finall

. >> [speaking in spanish] [speaking in spanish] cybersecurity is a big issue we are facing these days before he left congress at the end of last year where the server was the sight of a bunch of cyber security incidents basically what happened people made unauthorized access to the server 6,000 times logging on with 17 different accounts it appeared you were actually moving other members data onto the server, so the reports you've learned about this in the summer of 2016. you block investigators looking at the fina file citing the clas the constitution is a physical server itself is evidence later disappeared. this kind of thing doesn't happen everyday in congress. you didn't mention those that stayed may have been affected and shortly before you resigned, the server did not disappear so what happened to the server and especially given your law-enforcement seeking to press charges against these it guys at a minimum certainly the rules surrounding cybersecurity on the house were violated in some pretty strange ways. .. >> >> and also today with the reciprocity permit to allow people to

not a lot of nations have strong cybersecurity measures and that is one measure and the second one isquires private partnership and the knowledge of a lot of technology because this is nothing that can be taught in the book, it comes with people working together and coming together to increase the level of india is one of the fastest—growing aviation market. recently klm and jetair india aviation market. recently klm and jet air india have deepened their partnership. it would give europe greater access to the indian market. but india has even more potential for investment. i think there are different ways of investing in the market and if we see what the market position was between amsterdam and india, two years ago it was one flight india, two years ago it was one flight per day— a klm flight between amsterdam and delhi which is nothing for a market of this size. now today, 200 indian companies are investing a lot of money in amsterdam and choose it as their headquarter. it is really an investment in the markets. let's ta ke investment in the markets. let's take a look at what is comi

a cybersecurity expert has found a serious security flaw with nordstrom gift carts. he and potentially others could gain access to gift cards drank them down to zero before you can even use them. nbc's jeff rossen shows you how to protect your money. >> reporter: gift cards are big business right now, according to the national retail federation, americans are expected to spend nearly $28 billion on gift cards this year alone. >> but what if your card was compromised? and the money on it completely wiped before you ever went shopping? cybersecurity expert jim stickily has come to us with an urgent alert, telling us he's cracked the code with nordstrom gift carts. he can hack in and drain all the money. >> i have ten here, you're saying you can hack these. >> not only can i hack those, but also the cards for sale right now, i can hack thought when they become activated, drain the funds as well. >> how? >> can have software to po you will card pins one at a time. >> he says he's discovered a few problems with nordstrom gift cards, including shorter pin number that most

. >> next, a symposium on cybersecurity trends to democracies, including voting infrastructure security and foreign attempts to shape public debate through disinformation andenline commentary. this part includes a conversation with senate intelligence committee chair richard burr, with an update on his committee's investigation involving russia and the 2016 elections. from the council on foreign relations, this is an hour.

security, you deal with isis, cyber security, issue of national security, you deal with isis, cybersecurity important is that to you to make the book feel current?” how important is that to you to make the book feel current? i am bound by plausibility. fortunately for me, it seems like anything is plausible. i can write about anything, and someone will say they read it in a newspaper last week. i am very key is about the world, i try and read everything i can possibly read. i extrapolate so i can say, what it is going to be like in the nearfuture. ican going to be like in the nearfuture. i can push the envelope and see what is coming down the road. i had written the scene and thought it was over the top and said read this, let me know if i have to pull it back. and he said i don't have to read it, if you can imagine it, we have already done it. that is chilling. you say you had a conversation with an intelligence guy, i know you talk to members of the fbi and secret service, what kind of things do they tell you? they are wonderfully helpful, they share a lot of information, sometimes they s

emily: what about cybersecurity? right now and especially right now during the holidays. what are you doing to protect your customers? thet: we have been one of first for online retail, which is we guarantee the things our customers buy are real. we stand behind everything that is purchased on the site. cybersecurity and protecting both the identity of the purchaser, but most importantly the shopping experience that what you see is what you get, is what ebay is all about. 2018, we know at you guys have seen increased engagement but revenue growth has not kept up. you think that will happen in 2018? scott: the last quarter results, it was the best quarter in a number of years. we have been showing steady acceleration of growth. we are having a record holiday season, because i think what we are standing for for ebay, which is you could come to the site, see over a billion things that are available. most of those things are new, never used. they ship under three days. you have a great value proposition and finding treme

so we're making especially cybersecurity a priority. and we've done a number of things working with department of homeland security, the fbi, and to become -- to make sure that we get the information we need. so the number one activity since the 2016 election for the national association of secretaries of state and the secretaries of state has been to improve the communication between the intelligence agencies in the united states. and we as chief election officials so that we can get the information we need in order to prevent and/or react quickly if there should be a cyber attack. >> i'm just going to put you on the spot. are you comfortable at this point knowing that no system is perfect? but are you comfortable that we have done as much as we can do? are you comfortable that if there were an election tomorrow in the state of indiana that it would be safe? >> by the time you say you're comfortable, that's when you should be worried. i'm never going to say i'm comfortable about it. i'm always going to say i'm going to be very vigilant

they have a swat team, like cybersecurity researchers to look at the latest threat and they have beennorth korea's interest in bitcoin for a while. carol: let's talk about for a while. this goes back to various viruses and so on. tell us about what they have found out in terms of north korean hackers specifically. guest: they first saw north korean interest in bitcoin back in 2013 when they were able to track -- this was basically a failure insecurity on north korean hackers parts. they were able to see hackers from north korea were going into underground forums, like bitcoin forums online, to do research. to sort of understand what is bitcoin. and to understand how it might be useful. because for a country like north korea, which has been -- for a -- has been facing sanctions for a very long time, and trying to make money and get around those sanctions, it is an interesting tool. carol: raising my hand for those folks on radio. this is the big question. north korea limits its access to the internet. who is getting that access? don't they? guest: yes, they do. carol: to ask the questi

. >> cybersecurity a a big issue were facing these days. it was issued shortly before he left congress at the end of last year where your server was the site of the bunch of cybersecurity incidents basically. house supports the people made unauthorized access to server 6000 times logging over 70 different accounts. individual long time i.t. guy was moving other date onto your server. the reports i should learned in 2016, you want to replace him with his wife and cataloging anyway. such a block investigators from looking at the file siding speech and debate clause. it says your physical server itself which is evidenced later disappeared. this kind of thing doesn't happen everyday encompass. you didn't mention this to the 17 members whose bid may been affected. before he was on the physical server did disappear. what happened to the server and especially given your love for the background are you seeking to present charges against these i.t. guys given at a minimum certainly the rules concerning cyprus could on the house were violated in some

an analysis of data provided by cybersecurity firm -- secure works -- shows that the espionage groups "fancy bear" tried to break into gmail inboxes of at least 200 reporters, publishers and bloggers from mid-2014 to just a few months ago. the data provides new evidence that "fancy bear" acted on behalf of the russian government when it intervened in the u.s. presidential election. the russian government has denied interfering in the election. larry, autria, back to you. on the hill -- one day before funding ran out, congress passed a short term measure to avoid a government shutdown. the house and senate approved a package extending funding through january 19th, but they're also kicking the can down the road on tricky political issues - like health care and protections for the so-called dreamers. abc's arlette saenz breaks it all down: vice president mike pence is in now for a surprise visit. he rallied u-s troops and met with top afghan officials yesterday -- for his first trip to that country as vice president. the visit makes pence the highest-ranking trump administration officia

and for other countries to use cybersecurity attacks on north korea? >> north korea is not invulnerable to them, but because it's not really networked like the united states is, it is certainly less -- it's much more protected against this. it's only got two pipelines to the rest of the world. one controlled by china. the other controlled by russia. and because a lot of its infrastructure is not internet-based, it can sort of laugh at us. obviously, the united states has capabilities. we can use them against those countries that have been helping the north koreans because those countries like china and russia are networked. so we have a lot of tools, but not necessarily against north korea itself. >> as we have seen the acceleration or the advancement of sanctions, have we seen in parallel or in concert with that, the advancement of enforcement? that was brought up time and time again going back years. enforcement wasn't matching sanctions. has that started to change? >> well, it has started to change, david. the chinese are more vigorous in enforcing

. >> cybersecurity analysts say it won't be long before passwards are obsolete but this is really a catnd mouse game with cyber criminals. they also say until passwords are gone, you really should rely on a dual authentication system. >> that's like 300 constellations as they -- people must be uneasy with that. we're giving away information here. we don't know what could come of it. >> i think facial recognition just seems a little too sci-fi for a lot of people. it's already being used. the technology itself has gotten so much better over the last five years. that much harder to duplicate. less room for error. because the technology is better. and the truth is, although they -- cybersecurity analysts won't say it's impossible to break, it's very, very unlikely at this point. >> why have we been so bad with passwords? why do people write their passwords down? after people saying time and time again don't use consecutive letters, consecutive numbers, do people continue to do it? >> because we have to remember all of it. trying to access that list, keeping that list secure. a lot of peopl

actually, besides trying to do a detailed plan on cybersecurity and its impact on industry, it's basically a call to action. so we'll go pretty quickly. yes? we will. okay. [laughter] there we go. so, you know, i'm going to kind of click forward for you here in the u.s. industry. so we've got a couple of issues that everyone in this room needs to be very aware of. it's around privacy. and as you well know, privacy means lots of things. it means you may have your personal data stolen, but most importantly, you read every day about your identity being stolen. also from a transactional point of i view, privacy -- if you don't trust privacy, you will not interact with each other or engage in commerce with us and others, so it's very, very critical. the other is we talked a little bit about iot all through the day. so for security today the, security of iot is not just a matter of privacy, it's becoming an issue of safety. so it might be one thing if it's a temperature probe in a room, but if it's a control valve on a pipeline or some sort of waste product that may be released into the environm

. >> next, a symposium on cybersecurity trends to democracies, including voting infrastructure security and foreign attempts to shape public debate through disinformation andenline commentary. this part includes a conversation with senate intelligence committee chair richard burr, with an update on his committee's investigation involving russia and the 2016 elections. from the council on foreign relations, this is an hour. mr. sanger: i'd like to welcome senator richard burr to the keynote of this, it's been a fascinating morning of discussion of russia, the election interference but also broader cyberissues. e're glad to see you here. mr. burr: i question the meal part, it didn't look big enough. keep you it's to from sleeping. i haven't sorted out if you're in the tuke-rooting side of the state or university of north carolina side of the state. mr. burr: whichever one wins. mr. sanger: probably a good sign for what we're going to be discussing the rest of the kay. he is of course chairman of the senate intelligence committee and for his sins becoming the chairman he is now managing th

lloyd's writes about a third of the cybersecurity market globally.ese provide new threats and risks and it will change the face of some insurance. we go to driverless cars and dynamic key proponent of it, if we look at the accidents on the road mainly caused by human machinesif we can use to eliminate human errors, we will all live in a much safer world, but then you run the risk of things being attacked by malicious hackers and things like that. our challenge is then to work with the car manufacturers to think well, how can we redefine the insurance product? people won't need to buy motor insurance like they have for decades. manus: we reported on the number thealware attacks around world. did you see a significant uplift and consequently, pricing in terms of cybersecurity products for yourself? year as the this malware attacks went mainstream? asa: we can see opportunity soon as there is another big attack because it raises awareness. particularly, in the boardroom room, the directors are saying what about us? a couple of years ago, it was only bus

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but almost immediately after the launch, a cybersecurity company hacked the system. exposing a flaw, disabling the wifi and freezing the camera feed so it looks like nothing is going on at the front door. so that delivery person could have full access inside your home undetected. this homeowner letting us try it on her house. >> you're saying just that fast? almost instantly the camera is disabled inside. can walk into the house and she won't see us? >> exactly. >> that's incredible. >> reporter: look at side by side. nbc camera on the left, amazon on the right. our camera, clearly see us, but amazon camera, looks like house was secure and no one is there. amazon made aware of the vulnerability weeks ago and issued software update, saying customers would be notified more quickly if goes offline. less than a minute to get the notification that camera was unavailable but still no clear indications someone hacked it or was inside. amazon telling nbc news safety and security are built into every aspect of the service and poses little risk, issue with most wifi systems, n

cybersecurity experts say stealing money from gift cards is easier than you think. the cards don't have security chips, just magnetic strips. look for clean cards with no exposed pin numbers. buy cards from the clerk, not off the public rack of cards. finally, don't let your cards linger. use them, or you give hackers the time they need to drain them. >>> how late can you wait to grab the perfect gifts? thanks to two big box stores, you have until christmas eve to shop. landon dowdy has details in the cnbc business report. good morning. >> reporter: hi, good friday morning. that's right, the clock is ticking, and it's christmas eve, and you still haven't found the perfect gift? don't fret. kohl's in the middle of a marathon staying open around the clock until 6:00 p.m. christmas eve. toys 'r' us is kicking off a 63-hour shopping spree at 6:00 a.m. today and will stay open through 9:00 p.m. sunday. tomorrow is expected to be one of the biggest shopping days of the year with 126 million consumers expected to hit the stores. >>> let's check the markets here on wall str

financial regulators but all throughout the government you know whether or not interviewing with a cybersecurity there's a whole other night is dealing with terrorism threats there's all sorts of areas in the government so i agree with you a hundred percent at super here these are good jobs and you're doing a good job but one thing that you mentioned i want to get into just a little bit deeper let's talk of much more about this key component of world want university and that's about the opportunities and access to how you're helping people you know just not just in the u.s. and in europe but in some of these are merging and developing nations around the world you meant you mentioned subsaharan africa let's talk about that a little bit more i mean do they even have computers where they can access this and are they doing it now what's the future hold well i think for sure i mean fifty percent in excess of fifty percent of our students are actually in sub-saharan africa we have students in nigeria and kenya and ghana in ethiopia in south africa . certainly people need to have some requisite skills

a cybersecurity firm said russian speaking hackers targeted more than a dozen banks in california, utah and new york. eventually stealing at least $10 million in recent months. now, they broke into card payment systems then signed up for accounts and removed the withdrawal limb milimits. >>> you won't have to sign receipts for mastercard and discover coming up. visa will be the only one to require signatures. >>> uber apologized to a man charged more than $14,000 for a ride that was only five miles long. it happened in toronto. the charge was 18,000 canadian dollars. you can see from this screen was legit but now refunded the money. the driver made a mistake. it's investigating why safeguards to prevent overcharging failed. >>> coming up, the nfl hall of famer suspended from his job amid harassmentment claims. >>> mario batali responds and his apology and what happens now. >>> the location of a massive great white shark that could rival the size of jaws. ♪ so probably take it at night. and if you have any questions, the instructions are here in spanish as you requested. gracias. ♪ at