the gmail passwords of hundreds of u.s. government officials are stolen and google blames china. >> these allegations are very serious. >> smith: i'm harry smith. also tonight, a de do in an unlikely place. in this season of devastating twisters, central massachusetts is the latest target. rolling out romney 2.0. mitt romney announces his second try for the republican presidential nomination. and changing the shape of the american diet. the pyramid is out, the plate is in. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" >> smith: good evening. we begin with a computer hacking case that carries huge international implications. that's because the targets included hundreds of high-level u.s. government officials. google says their personal gmail accounts were compromised and the attacks originated in china. today the f.b.i. was called in to investigate as federal agencies scrambled to find out if the hackers got any sensitive information. wyatt andrews has more. >> reporter: it's the second time google has blamed a

the company says hackers broke into hundreds of gmail accounts.gh level government officials. wyatt andrews on how they did it and what they were after. >> it's the second time google has blamed a major computer hacking scheme on china. this time google says unknown hackers from china, a city with a military command center stole the personal gmail passwords of hundreds of senior u.s. government officials. the hacker's goal was to eves drop on the officials. the monitor the content of the user's e-mail. that rang alarm bells in the administration. >> these allegations are very serious. we take them seriously. we are looking into them. >> according to a respected security blogger, the attack that targeted the state department looked like this. it was an innocent looking e- mail that offered the latest u.s. china joint statement, but if the reader clicked on the document, what appeared next was this. it was fake, and which fooled some of the users for giving up their private password. >> u.s. officials who work at home use gmail. while teams communic

one time and he was doing and early gmail demo. page made a face and told him it was way too slow.what kind of objective? charging the reload took at least 600 milliseconds. but i thought you can't know that. we got back to his own office he check the server logs. 600 milliseconds. [laughter] e-mailed it so i started testing myself. without too much effort i could estimate times to that position. i could tell if it was 300 or 700 or whatever. that happened throughout the company. >> well, steven levy, there's probably a million more questions i have from the audience and that i have, but i guess those people with those questions will have to read the book. which was a great read. >> thank you, it was great. [applause] >> for more on steven levy and his work, visit stevenlevy.com. spent we ask what are you reading this summer? here's what you have to say. >> tom allen is president and the american association of publishers, former congressman, democrat from maine. congressman allen, described if you would the state of the book industry as you see it today. >> well, exciting would be

hundreds of gmail users were tricked into disclosing their passwords. u.s. and asian officials, as well as journalists, were affected.* chinese activists house republicans met with president obama, hoping for a deal on the debt ceiling. they want to slash trillions of dollars in spending in return for letting uncle sam boost his ability to borrow. after the meeting, house speaker john boehner said he told the president now is not the time to kick the can down the road. >> if we're going to raise the debt limit, the spending cuts should exceed the increase in the debt limit, otherwise it will serve to cost us jobs in our country. it's not what the american people want. >> reporter: without some kind of action, we'll hit the current debt limit of $14.3 trillion by august. >> tom: still ahead, it's the one sector outperforming the rest of the market this year. tonight's "street critique" has a prescription for health care stocks. >> susie: the slowing economy combined with tight supplies and higher gas prices to put the brakes on auto sales last month. at gener

between china and google is even more strained tonight as china's government denies hacking google's gmail service. google blames computer hackers in china for the attack of several hundred personal gmail accounts belonging to government personnel and activists. china's foreign ministry today publicly denied any involvement. >>> all right. let's talk presidential politics right now. he appears to be the gop front-runner, at least for right now. mitt romney announced his race for the white house again. romney previewing a campaign that will focus heavily on the economy and he did it in a key state. nbc bay area's garvin thomas has more for you. >> i believe in america. and i'm running for president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: mitt romney made it official in new hampshire. his issue, the economy. his target, the president. >> barack obama has failed america. when he took office, the economy was in recession. and he made it worse. and he made it last longer. >> reporter: romney knows how to grip and grin. >> that's my job here. >> reporter: he was governor of ma

that's after computer hackers in china broke into gmail attacks.he super attack hit hundreds of accounts including those belonging to senior government officials and political activists. google believes hackers used phishing scams to trick them. >>> a doomed elementary school in pinole will stay open for at least another year. the west contra costa school board just voted to keep shannon elementary school open. the decision to close the school was made two years ago and it was set to shut down after next week. but the board decided to reverse that decision. the "contra costa times" says there were concerns about the cost of moving students to other campuses and adding portable classrooms to other schools. >>> californians want to vote and they would likely vote no. that's what a new survey has found about governor jerry brown's proposal to extend temporary tax increases. the public policy institute of california survey found 62% of state voters approve of the governor's revised budget proposal that calls for a special election but only 46% support

it said to call dad reminder in gmail chat windows. not everyone is able or willing to call dad, it didn't go over well. e-mail users filled up form pages with complaints mentioning deceased, distant, or downright abusive dads. google addressed the controversy earlier in a post that apologized for the gaffe. the company says it will make it easy to dismiss any future promotion was chat windows. >>> anthony weiner's twitter scandal sent congressional use of twitter plunged by nearly 30%. but the presidential use of twitter is increasing. president obama is now in. his re-election campaign announced he's going to send his own tweets and you'll know they're from him because he'll sign them with his initials, o.b. he sent the first message yesterday, wishing dads everywhere a happy father's day. the president has about 8.7 million followers as this hour, behind only lady dpa dpa and justin beebe --gaadgay ga nd justin bieber. >>> coming up, confirmation of something most parents heard know. hey marcel, watch this! hey marcel, watch this! [

the company says it will take about ten minutes for gmail users to follow its instructions.ebsite advises people to keep an eye out for suspicious forwarding instructions in their account settings. andrew? >>> nina, love it or loathe it, twitter looks like it's set to stay. the last count puts the number of users globally at more than 200 million. now, new research from the pew research center survey says that 13% of online adults in the u.s. now use twitter. that's up from 8% just one year ago. so, what were the top tweeted events? champions league football, the final between barcelona and manchester united. that came in at more than 6,000 tweets a second. that's double the number of tweets during the world cup final last summer. but the record still stands in japan. the japanese new year celebration at its peak, 7,000 tweets every second. that's a lot of tweeting. so, where are the tweets coming from? japan is a big one. let's look at the top five. now, according to comscore, there they are there, the netherlands, japan, brazil, indonesia and venezuela. the netherlands is

government said cyber attacks could be considered an act of war, google announced that hundreds of gmailng to high-level u.s. government officials, had been attacked by hackers in china. we're joined with more. atika, how did they do it? >> basically this was something called phishing which you've probably heard about. it's a way to lure people in and get their e-mail passwords. what happened in this particular case was that an e-mail was sent to various accounts that asked them to open up a link. when they got to that link, there was a little pop-up that said, please enter your google e-mail user name and password. because it seemed legitimate, the users entered those passwords. with that the hackers were then able to monitor those e-mails and basically forward them on and see what was inside of this google mail account. so, the purpose seems to have been to sort of basically spy on these various e-mail accounts. now, google says this was clearly a phishing attack. it was not an attack on their own servers or their own systems. this was down through this phishing campaign. google says i

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google announced that computer hackers and china broke into the gmail accounts of many people, includingtop security officials in the u.s. the white house is investigating. japanese authorities underestimated the threat that the nuclear plant could be hit by a tsunami. that is the conclusion of an official report, but they go on to say that the response to the crisis was "exemplary." our science correspondent, david shukman, has the details. >> the moment the great wave struck, these pictures capture how it struck the sea defense, tearing apart huge pieces of concrete, where it overwhelmed the emergency cooling system. the effects were devastating. explosions blew apart two of the reactor buildings. an accident quickly became a crisis with implications around the world. now international experts, carefully protected, have assessed the wreckage, including britain's and chief nuclear -- britain's chief nuclear inspector. they criticize the lack of readiness, but praised the response. >> you have to understand the events very carefully to be able to predict them periods -- to predict them.

boards for the right pharmaceutical by friending cardiac patients on facebook, then create a fake gmailblack market plavix from canada. (cheers and applause) the point is regardless of the fact that tim pawlenty cratered in last night's debate, his ground breaking google solution means he's still an attractive candidate because i can google tim pawlenty. (laughter) and if i can google tim pawlenty that means he's absolutely unnecessary in government. (cheers and applause) which makes him the perfect vice president. we'll be right back. here's your mgd 64, and your 64 calorie martini. wow, that sure comes in a tiny glass. oh no no i have giant hands. i'm very manly in the hand area. you know mgd 64 only has 64 calories. whoa, that feels better. yeah. a vacation on a budget with expedia. make it work. booking a flight by itself is an uh-oh. see if we can "stitch" together a better deal. that's a hint, antoine. ooh! see what anandra did? booking your flight and hotel at the same time gets you prices hotels and airlines won't let expedia show separately. book it. major wow factor! where you

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. >>> google is blaming hackers in china for attacks on gmail. the online giant said the accounts of several hundred people were broken into, including those of some top u.s. officials and military personnel. google says the hackers phished for passwords. the fbi and homeland security are now looking into the attacks. >>> u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner is going to get an earful from europe's top banking regulator. michel barnier says the obama administration too lax and shouldn't be allowing the huge bonuses for bankers. he also wants to make banking rules here and in europe harder to skirt regulations. >>> summer is usually a good time to buy a car. but not this year. buyers have been snapping up fuel-efficient models. and japanese vehicles are in short supply after the earthquake. so, there aren't too many incentives going on. things should be back to normal by the fall. >>> it also looks like someone in new york is waking up as the country's new multimillionaire. one winning powerball ticket was sold. the jackpot, $200 million. was t

. >> i was seeing someone, you know, looking at my account, deleting my account, logging in to gmail, watching youtube videos. >> reporter: taking pictures, capturing screens, sending out his approximate location. kauffman took his evidence to oakland police but got no response. friday kauffman took matters into his own hands, posted pictures, setting up a blog, and following with tweets. kauffman called his blog, this guy has my macbook, and detailed his efforts to get bliss to help him get it back. this blog got 400,000 page views. there were 26,000 tweets. 40,000 likes. and he gained 5,000 more twitter followers. >> i think people were surprised, and amazed that software like this existed. a lot of people don't know that it's out there and available. and a lot of people were just entertained by it, thought it was funny. a lot of people were just cheering me on, you know. they wanted some action to happen. they wanted the police to do something about it. >> reporter: after media contacted police, kauffman got the action he wanted. police used his information to close in on the culpr

google says hackers from china broke into the gmail accounts of several hundred people, including u.s. government officials. today an article in the communist party newspaper says china must defend its, quote, sovereignty. the authors from the academy of military sciences cite the role in internet in the uprising in the arab world, which traces back to washington. >>> one good defense against hackers is a good password. jim steyer with common sense media joining us with more, plus what parents can expect with kids at the box office this morning. good morning, jim. >> hi, anne. >> thanks for joining us. the phishing scandal with google, that hit close to home. >> one of my students at stanford is a tibetan activist, well known, and she has now had her account hacked twice by the chinese government. this is a big deal. in her case, she's a political activist, a young woman, but well known political activist internationally. and so what happens is, you know, the government in this case is actually hacking gmail accounts in order to find out sensitive, confidential information. what this

i have all my e-mail and gmail, i have my personal docs.usic is something i want to have with me all the time, it's personal to me, and that's why i keep it on my ipod, i keep it on my hard drives at home. i want to know it will always be there in case of a data outage, and i don't want to have to pay twice for access to it by the cloud through paying for data services on my cell phone or paying the fees that are supposed to be associated with these cloud music services over the long run. >> we pointed out apple coming out tomorrow with this icloud. tell us exactly what it is and how is it different from the other music programs that are out there cloudwise? >> we don't know fundamentally. of course, this is apple and they like to keep things secret until the very last minute when steve jobs walks out on stage. we are supposed to believe it is a music streaming service. we're told they've done deals with all the major music labels. the big question is, are they going to be allowing us to upload all of our music or give us access to all of o

we've reported here on cnn, the gmail hack attack that took place last week whxt he woo we entrust our third party it means our data could fall victim to a hack attack and become compromised. and another disadvantage is control. you download a movie you want to watch. you have a bad net connection, it's out of your control. that can be an immensely frustrating experience. monita? >> with all of these things in mind, you're cnn's technology goddess. i'm on the end of that spectrum. i'm pretty inept when it comes to new technology. is this shift inevitable, though? >> well it seems inevitable if you ask google. next week we'll be seeing the launch of a number of laptops running the google chrome operating system. now these laptops will be remarkable because they only have 16 gigabytes of storage space, that's it. that's equivalent to two of these ipod nanos in a laptop. that's google, one of the world's most powerful companies, saying we the computing masses are ready to make the shift to the cloud. this is a very significant paradigm shift in computering. akin to what we saw a couple of

between google and china is even more strained tonight as china's government is denying hacking google's gmail service. google blames hackers in china for the attack of several hundred personal accounts belonging to senior government officials. the breach is the second of its kind in the last 17 months in which google is traced to a region of china, which is home to an army technical bureau. china's foreign ministry is denying any involvement. >>> coming up, continuing to follow the deadly fire in san francisco. we'll have a report of a condition of another injure firefighters. zblmpblt and yes, there have been manl advances, but still no cure. the 30th anniversary of the aids epidemic. every step of the way. call or come in and talk with us today. >>> continuing to follow a developing story. one firefighter has died and another fighting to survive. while wabattling a fire this morpg, they were overtake p by flames. we bring in jean el. elle. they consider themselves a family and this family is shaken up tonight. >> reporter: a big family here in san francisco. we're still seeing a lot of emot

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he and other experts say the recent hackings of citi, lockheed martin, sony and gmail are likely notut do have common threads. >> what we continue to see is an increase in folks targeting intellectual party that can lead to economic growth. that's something that a variety of different countries have become aware of and hacking is very much at the forefront of that and increasing sophisticated attacks. >> experts say one reason why everything is now at risk is because the defenders like the banks and the military have to protect themselves against every possible threat every possible way into their system. the hackers they say only have to get lucky once. it's like the terrorist threat, wolf. >> it certainly is. what can we do, all viewers out there here in the united states and around the world to better protect ourselves? >> mark rash says always run constant credit reports, checks to make sure no one's using your information for unauthorized transactions. that's what you can do with your own accounts. for everything else he says, cross your fingers. it's dauntsing to hear are that

. >>> having your gmail account hacked is one thing. and then there's your bank.hat it means for hundreds of thousands of violated customers. >>> and it's a lot easier than hacking a bank account. what's inside your newspaper that has some thieves grabbing copies as soon as they hit your driveway. >>> some said being the hitting coach for the giants is a tough job. i'm kim coyle. terrestrial... later in sports.... >>> we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, allen/dana) >>> talking about how nice it is outside and the sun is here and so summer is here. so roberta has a lot -- has a lot to talk about. >> temperatures topped averages by 14 degrees inland. we are going to be experiencing one more day of this unseasonably warm weather until the bottom falls out. let's go ahead and head out now. it's our live cbs 5 weather camera looking towards the bay waters where the winds have been blowing up to 15, 20 miles per hour out of the west and northwest. therefore, we did have a small craft advisory in effect. it's allowed to expire. another view, this time around, san jose wh

they went after the amalgamated data in gmail and system information. the fact is this. politicians and policymakers like to have information they send to each other outside the government systems. china recognized that and went after it. that's brilliant. it doesn't change the fact we've got to do something now to recognize our own vulnerable blts and stop this bleeding of information to the chinese and frankly the russians, syrians, north koreans, iranians all have very superb cyber capabilities. >> i was shocked after i talked to him. basically he's saying the u.s. -- the world basically doesn't have a policy, a working policy to combat this. he's calling for people to focus on this. >> what's so interesting, before we move quickly to another point, that is that the imf took it so seriously they cut all connections to, i think, the world bank because, again, you don't know who's doing it, what their aim is, what their goal is and whether they want to bring down and ma fip late the system. the med of the imf, it's a woman who's a front-runner. she's making a lot of peo

hackers in china breaking into gmail accounts.yberattack hitting hundreds of accounts including those belonging senior government officials and political activists. the online site says all victims have been notified and their accounts have now been secured. google believes hackers using phishing scams to trick them into sharing their passwords. >>> 6:24. the feds are about to serve up new nutritional guidelines. the old food pyramid is being replaced. here's what they are dishing up instead. first lady michelle obama will unveil the new plate symbol later this morning. it has four sections with fruits and vegetables taking up half. the other section will include grains and proteins. dairy items will be in a separate circle. >>> this morning the san francisco giants are doing something no other professional sports team has ever done before. >> promise you it gets better. >> it get better. >> the team just posted a message on its website to gay and lesbian teenagers. it's all part of an online campaign against gay bullying and homo

also there's a tips and anonymous hotline and a gmail account if you have any information.ars ago, we were using milk cartons as a best resource. now with a bevy of social networking options it shows how viral and quickly different ways we can communicate. >> you took the words out of my mouth. i was going to say that to you. posters, put them on telephone poles and trees. r it's instant and it can go to millions of people. how wonderful. how crucial is social media when it comes to finding missing people these days, katie? >> social media is absolutely critical when it comes to finding missing persons. it's so interesting. i had the opportunity to speak with bob laurie, who is the executive director of the national center for missing and exploited children, and he gave me remarkable statistics. 2,000 kids go missing every day. over 800,000 annually. the return rate in finding missing kids 20 years ago was 63% to 64%. now they're seeing a 97% return rate which is remarkable. he attributes a lot of that to social networking and the capability to disseminate information quick

and that is that google reported that they have learned that chinese hackers have broken into the gmailccounts of hundreds of u.s. government officials and other political activists in this country. they say that it's all been fixed but it's just the latest development in this topic that we're addressing tonight. let's start with you, though, alan paller. not serve hacking for the same reason. what are the motivations behind these kinds of attacks? >> there are three groups doing most of the hacking. one are the spies. there's two kinds of spies, the military spies and the economic spies. in china they're the same people but in a lot of countries they're just... one, they're very sophisticated spies. the second group is people who are criminals who used to do drug trade and they've found that cyber crime is a better payoff, the person who used the run this area for the secret service often said any organized crime group not doing this should be sued for malpractice. and the third is hackers who may have the best of motives but they caused know mortar damage that you've been experiencing

projects like google news, projects gibe g mail and the -- like gmail and scanning millions of books from dozens of books from around the world, it starts with five, including universities and then moves on to many others. and this project kind of blew my mind, right? so in you're i start reading about this project t scanning millions of books, and i start seeing this amazing hyperbole coming from people who are working for universities and university libraries, from people who are big fans of google and from people who just want knowledge to spread. and they start saying what an amazing thing that this big, powerful company is going to spread knowledge to every corner of the world pretty much for free, and i start read things from -- in the all sorts of corners basically saying this is going to create a new library that anyone can go into. and i'm sitting back there saying, you know google's six years old, right? google at that point was around for less time than brad pitt and jennifer aniston had been married, and look how well that turned out. so i said why is a university, like t

. >>> google is blaming hackers china for breaking into gmail accounts including those of senior u.s. government officials whose passwords were stolen. china denied any involvement. >>> a plane carrying the los angeles angels baseball team was forced to make an emergency landing last night because of a mechanical problem. there was a problem with the plane's hydraulics. but the pilot was able to land safely. the team was returning from a loss in kansas city. >>> and look at this. here's what happens when the buck does not stop here. a deer burst through the front doors of this bank in virginia, getting through two sets of doors to the shock of everyone inside. a few minutes later, around lunchtime, he darted back out the way he came in. you look for economic indicators and signs. trying to see if there's anything to do with the banks here. can't put the deer together with the banks. >> thanks so much. >>> time, now, for the weather. colleen coyle in for sam, from our great dallas station, wfaa. >> good morning, everyone. right now, we have been talking about the tornadoes that have to

our fault after the google hack, it was the chinese government going gmai ruel -- through gmail to try to get [unintelligible] there were assumptions that ultimately, we could never do. there is a chinese advance through search algorithms. we need to be very careful immediately catching this as a nation state problem. the larger strategic issue was the trillions of dollars of intellectual property stolen on a commercial basis. , whatof the industry's they are doing or response during also have commercial interests. you start accommodating for that very ambiguous intent of the actor as well as the actual itself. >> one of the things that the policy maker will have to confront at the very beginning of all of this is what kind of constraints do we want applied to what they may be doing? in the world of title 10 and title 15, policymakers need to be very careful about setting standards that apply to everyone else except us. however good we are, we are not that good. there is an overarching element for this entire discussion. secondly, i think duty was bought on when she talked about discus

our default after the brutal hack was that this was the chinese government going after gmail to repress chinese dissidents and we made some gross assumptions. ultimately, we could not prove them. it could very well have easily been a chinese the very end to go looking for their search algorithms. we have to be very careful, immediately said stating this as a nascent state problem. the largest strategic issue is the italians of dollars and 90 that is stolen every year on a commercial -- the large strategic issue is the try and set dollars of it that is stolen every year. you have to pry out the intent of this to accommodate for the ambiguous intent of the actor as well as the actual event itself. >> one of the things that a policy maker would have to confront at the very beginning of all of this is what kind of constraints do we want to apply to what we may be doing. in the world of title 10 and title 50, the policymakers need to be very careful about setting standards which apply to everybody else except us. we are not that good that we would not get caught at some point. that is an ove