the massacre was stopped by one man, a man named hugh thompson. thompson was piloting a helicopter gunship over the village and seeing american soldiers firing activity. they are under attack by viacom, landed there, got out and was reviewing the and conference both side of american soldiers shooting elderly women, taking out babies from underneath the bodies of their mothers and shooting them and figured out what was happening and hugh thompson got into his helicopter and in the course of minutes undid every bit of training he had had as to who is an us and who is a them. he took his helicopter, landed in between the last group of surviving villagers and american soldiers coming at them with their weapons, landed his helicopter and turned his machine dawns on the american soldiers and said if you do not stop i will know you all down. what's most important to me is, none of these guys had fancier neurons than any of us. 's same neurotransmitters, same genes, same enzymes, no fancier than as. what i think we are left with is a version of that in ev

hugh thompson, chief technology officer for symantec. he also serves as an advisory board member for the anti-malware testing standards organization and on the editorial board of ieee security and privacy magazine. he received his bachelor's degree and master's degree and ph in applied mathematics from the florida institute of technology. we're glad you're all here today and look forward to your valuable testimony. i now recognize dr. nino for five minutes to present his testimony. >> thank you, chairman lahood. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today at this joint subcommittee hearing, we greatly appreciate your interest in cybersecurity and look forward to sharing our thoughts and perfect i haves with you and members. -- a threat was identified. the intent of the threat was unclear it was immediately evident that its approach was unusually reckless. this threat has now popularly become known as wannacry. it was at this time that our director of threat intelligence for breach monitoring platform notified me of our team'

hugh thompson, chief technology officer for symantec. he serves as an advisory board member for the anti-malware testing organizations and on the board of ieee, security and privacy magazine. dr. thompson received his bachelor's degree and master's degree and ph.d. in applied mathematics from the florida institute of technology. we're glad you are all here today and look forward to your valuable testimony. now i recognize dr. nino for five minutes to present his testimony. >> thank you, chairman. vice chairman abraham, chairman smith, ranking member beyer and ranking member la xin skoipinli. we greatly appreciate your interest in cyber security and look forward to sharing our thoughts and perspectives with you and your members. on may 12, 2017, kryptos logic identified the global security threat with the immediate potential to cause an immeasurable amount of damage while the intents of this threat are unclear and they are ambiguous. it is immediately shown that it is reckless. this threat has become popularly known as wannacry. at this t