kevin mandia of mandiant and david dewalt from fireeye.name basis with the searing electronic army. -- the syrian electronic army. who is the syrian electronic army? >> some folks think it is a spontaneous group that assembles online and hacks. whether they are spontaneous or it is immaterial. the results are the same. they're hacking western press and changing things. other watch things and people. david dewalt, you say let's protect ourselves from this. is it a lot of fancy consultant fees or can you actually protect any company from an interest in? -- and intrusion? >> we are seeing a lot more attacks. the attacks are coming from all over the world. whether it is a politically motivated group or a crime based group or they are stealing intellectual coffee -- intellectual property :00 where do you see the most sophisticated attacks coming from? >> nationstates. we are seeing military operations ramping up -- >> chinese military. the mostgets headlines. almost every day. the question i have for you, governments should assume that other go

let's get to kevin mandia, he worked at the pentagon.ating officer of fireeye which is pluckily traded. he's the ceo of the company he founded. first off, again, it's bifurcated. we've got privacy, and then we've got the hacking issue. kevin, thank you for being here. let's start with privacy. you heard what the president said. look, surveillance goes back to the sons of liberty, as the president mentioned. it goes back to world war ii when, thankfully, the british and the united states were able to code crack the nazis and what they were trying to do simply by conducting surveillance. so with the new things announced today, will it make us safer or less safe in your opinion? >> well, i think that anybody who's doing surveillance on behalf of the security of the united states has a tough challenge. the internet is changing quickly, the technology'sing -- technologies being monitored are changing quickly. so i think spying is here to stay, it's always going to occur, and we just hope that the folks that are doing this can stay on top of t

"squawk box," they'll be speaking with kevin mandia and dave dewalt at 6:50 eastern.the former ceo of mcafee and sold that firm to intel. so he's pretty good at this sort of thing. >>> snapchat, meanwhile, is promising to beef up security after hackers posted phone numbers and user names of 4.6 million accounts this week. the hack resulted from above of the app's find friends feature, which let's people find friends user names by entering known phone numbers. snapchat admits it knew about the security loophole since august, but brushed off the warnings. >>> and facebook is facing a class action lawsuit over claims it monitors users private messages without their consent to sell the data to advertisers. the suit cites a report from a swiss security firm that suggests facebook scans web links shared in private messa messages. the suit is without merit according to facebook and says the firm will vigorously defend itself. >>> facebook's stock up around 0.5%. >>> and a recap of the headlines, as well today, stocks in europe trying to bounce after wall street falls deeply