let's ask mike faye, worldwide chief technology officer with mack afee and john pierce, research vices labs and security readvisory company and also a former staff officer with the cia security and a author of "blackhackonomics." good morning. >> good morning. >> mike, first to you on this, is retaliation going to take the form of cyber crime? is what we have seen so far just the first glimpse of what might be more to come? >> i think whenever you look at retaliation in today's world you have to assume that there is a possible cyber angle. the syrian electronic army hasn't been traditionally known for an outrageous level of sophistication, though. the most of their work is classified as hackofism. >> they record it as the work of people who are not very sophisticated. how important is that and, again, do you expect this to escalate if and as this conflict conversations? >> yeah, i mean, i expect it to escala escalate. i would disagree with what mike said. when you look at the syrian electronic army they have upped their game. when you look at what they did to the "new york times" a co