attorney for the southern district of new york, and the assistant attorney general for national security. we're here today to announce a major law enforcement action as part of our ongoing efforts to disrupt cyberthreats and to protect our national security. today, we have unsealed an indictment against seven alleged experienced hackers employed by computer security companies working on behalf of the iranian government, including the islamic revolutionary guard corps. a federal grand jury in manhattan found that these seven individuals conspired together and with others to conduct a series of cyberattacks against civilian targets in the united states financial services services industry, that in total or in all, in sum cost the victims tens of millions of dollars. now, between late 2011 and mid 2013, the united states financial sector suffered a large-scale and coordinated campaign of distributed denial of service, or ddos attacks. this is a particular kind of cyberattack in which multiple compromised sources are used to target and overwhelm a single system. and through these attacks, th

attorney for the southern district of new york, preet bharara, and the assistant attorney general forty, john carlin. we're here today to announce a major law enforcement action as part of our ongoing efforts to disrupt cyber threats and to protect our national security. today we have unsealed an indictment against seven alleged experienced hackers employed by computer security companies working on behalf of the iranian government, including the islamic revolutionary guard corps. a federal grand jury in manhattan found that these seven individuals conspired together and with others to conduct a series of cyber attacks against civilian targets in the united states financial services industry, that in total, or in all, in sum, cost the victims tens of millions of dollars. now, between late 2011 and mid-2013, the united states financial sector suffered a large-scale and coordinated campaign of distributed denial of service, or ddos attacks. this is a particular kind of cyber attack in which multiple compromised sources are used to target and overwhelm a single system. and through these a

of this case. there is no place safe on this increasingly small world. so with that i'd like to introduce the u.s. district attorney for the southern district of new york. >> thank you, director comey, for introducing me and from whom i inherited a good u.s. attorney's office years ago. so the charges announced today respond directly to a coordinated cyberassault on new york, its institutions and its infrastructure. as has been said, seven iranians engaged to discorrupt and disible mantle many institutions, many based in new york city. obviously obviously you heard about the infiltration of the bowman dam. as you also heard, these were not just ordinary crimes but calculated attacks directed by groups with ties to iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps and designed with the specific goal of harming america. the iranian defendants intended new york to be the epicenter of harm, because new york is the financial capital fled world, because new york has always been the blue chip target for those who want to harm our country. as i said, as the attorney general said, basically what occurred here was a group of individuals, seven charged in the indictment,

he began as an assistant united states attorney for both the southern district of new york in the easternfter the 9/11 terrorist attacks, director, he returned to new york to become the united states attorney for the southern district of new york. in 2003, he was appointed deputy attorney general under the united states attorney general john ashcroft. graduate ofey is a the college of william and mary. director, welcome. your entire written statement will be made a part of the record and i ask that you summarize your testimony in five minutes very we have the timing light you are well familiar with on the table. we are pleased you are here and you may begin your testimony. director comey: thank you for hosting this conversation and for helping us all talk about an issue that i believe is the hardest issue i have confronted in government, which is how to balance the privacy we so treasure that comes to us through the technology that we love and also achieve public safety safety, which we also hold very much a treasure. i worry a little bit that we have been talking past each other, both fo

and together those offices contributed to a single effort in the southern district of new and in the southern district of new him and yorko bring charges and impose costs on people who thought before this that it was a freebie. so my thanks to the u.s. attorney's office. my thanks to the national security division here at the justice. but the good folks at the f.b.i. for staying after this. people ask us, well, these people are in iran so how are you ever going to get them? the world is small and our memories are long. we never say never. people often like to travel for vacation or education, and we want them looking over their shoulder, both when they travel and when they sit at a keyboard. that's the message of this case. there is no place safe on this increasingly small world. so with that i'd like to introduce the u.s. district attorney for the southern district of new york. mr. bharara: thank you, director comey, for introducing me and from whom i inherited a good u.s. attorney's office years ago. so the charges announced today respond directly to a coordinated cyberassault on new york, its institutions and its infr

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attorney for the southern district of new york and the assistant attorney general for national security john carlin. we are here to announce a major law enforcement action as part of our ongoing efforts to disrupt cyberthreats and protect our national security. today, we have unsealed an indictment against seven alleged experienced hackers employed by computer security companies working on behalf of the iranian government, including the islamic revolutionary arm corps. these seven individuals conspired together and with others to conduct a series of cyberattacks against civilian targets in the united states financial service industry that in total or all in sum cost the victims tens of millions of dollars. now, between late 2011 and mid-2013, the financial sector suffered a large-scale and coordinated campaign of distributed denial of service or ddos attacks. this is a particular kind of cyberattack in which multiple, compromised targets overwhelm a single system. through these attacks, the servers are 46 financial institutions flooded with traffic over the course of 176 days. as a resu

attorney for the southern district of new york. >> that's right. i play, like, rudy guiliani --e >> seth: and you're trying to take down damian lewis. >> that's right. >> seth: and you guys are fantastic. >> thank you. >> seth: there is some nuance though. do you feel like people watching the show know who they're rooting for? and who do you want them to root for? >> well, i think the idea is that it's going to be complicated for people. >> seth: gotcha. >> i mean, at the end of the day, i play the good guy. so i hope everybody roots for me. >> seth: there you go. >> 'cause i'm the good guy. >> seth: but you're super biased -- >> but i play the law man -- >> seth: that's super biased. >> i'm super biased. i'm super biased. [ light laughter ] yeah, at the end of the day, i hope the guy who breaks the law, people aren't going, "yay, the >> you know? but we'll see. it's supposed to be complicated. >> seth: i will say, when we're talking about what's complicated about it, it's one of the great -- you've played a lot of great characters. you're in one o

general comey began as an assistant united states attorney for both the southern district of new yorknd eastern district of virginia after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, director comey returned to new york to become the united states attorney for the southern district of new york. in 2003 he was apointed deputy attorney general under the united states attorney general john ashcroft. director comey is a director of the college william and mary and university of chicago law school. director, welcome. your entire written statement will be made part of the record. i ask that you summarize your testimony in five minutes and we have the timing light that you are well familiar with on the table. again, welcome, we're pleased that you are here and you may begin your testimony. >> thank you, thank you for hosting this conversation. and for helping us all talk about an issue that i believe is the hardest i have confronted in government, which is how to balance the privacy we so treasure that comes to us through the technology that we love and also achieve public safety h we all very much treasure.

there is no better partner in the country for the national security division than the southern district of new york and is somewhat with friends and family in new york city i am grateful he is there and the prosecutors that are there to work against national security threats. i want to thank the fbi for their work on this investigation. most importantly the victims who are sometimes not treated as victims when it comes to cyberattacks. we know the bad guys are not you, they are the people overseas targeting your systems and we cannot confront the stress of that your critical assistance. this case demonstrates the power of one public and private he worked together to confront a cyber threat. for many years nation states and their affiliates enjoy what many perceived to be a cloak of anonymity. a cloak they hid behind a break our laws through cyber intrusions and to threaten our security and economic well-being. they had this perceived cloak of anonymity because they thought we could not figure out who did it. they thought if we did figure out who did it, we would not say it. they are wrong. and a ne

attorney for the southern district of new york, and the assistant attorney general for national security enforcement action as part of our ongoing efforts to disrupt cyber threats and protect our national security. today we've unsealed an indictment against seven alleged experienced hackers employed by computer companies working on behalf of the iranian company. >> all right. we're going to step away from this. we'll continue to monitor this. we understand that this news conference will be open to questions a little later. still to come, a show of solidarity and concern. some of europe's most powerful decision makers are holding a crisis meeting. two cabinet members in belgium have offered to resign their post. we'll be back in a bit. the future belongs to the fast. and to help you accelerate, we've created a new company. ♪ one totally focused on what's next for your business. a true partnership where people, technology and ideas push everyone forward. accelerating innovation. accelerating transformation. accelerating next. hewlett packard enterprise. i'm spending too muchs for time hiri

judge mckay si as chief judge and the southern district of new york could look at it differently. there could be risks congress could look at it differently, the american people could look at it differently. there is risk. expressing it as risk calculus is a way to think about it. the touchstone for fourth amendment is reasonableness. nothing more specific than that. a body of behind that. but that body of case law typically applies to police officers on the street, not intelligence officers overseas. you know, there's not the same degree of case law building up behind what reasonableness means. so that makes this really difficult. and i think an appreciation of that is important. >> and there's danger in pulling back too far from the line. i think we saw that pretty vividly before 9/11 when at the justice department it was felt that the sharing of intelligence information, with criminal investigators was something that, that the foreign intelligence statute barred. and so this wall was created, in which the intelligence gatherers could not notify the criminal investigators of wha

. >> the charges were just unveiled this morning by the southern district of new york, who says that asperson, 39, a former partner at the park hill group, previously owned by blackstone before being spun out as pjt partners had sought to defraud investors of up to $95 million, specifically some $25 million from a charitable foundation had been diverted into a fund that casperson, prosecutors say, was using for his personal benefit. as of last week, prosecutors say the balance in that account was just $40,000, despite the fact that casperson was allegedly seeking an additional $20 million from the foundation and $50 million from what the charges call a multinational private equity firm. now, they say this operation took place between last july and this month, march of 2016. that spans the time when park hill was owned by blackstone, before being finally spun out in october as pjt partners. both firms are involved in this investigation and pjt says that when it uncovered this improper fraudulent behavior it notified authorities and also launched an internal investigation that is curren

for the southern district of new york and the eastern district of virginia. hevirginia. he returned to new york to become the united states attorney. appointed deputy attorney general under the united states atty. gen. john ashcroft from a graduate of the college of william and mary and the university of chicago law school. welcome. i ask that you summarize your testimony into five minutes, and we have the timing light you are well familiar with on the table. >> thank you so much. how to balance the privacy we shall treasure that comes to us through the technology we love and she public safety which we treasure. i worry we have been talking past each other. fair minded, but these are the things i believe to be true. the logic of encryption will bring us to a place where things are entirely private. and no one can look at our stuff, read our documents, things we things we file away without agreement. that is the 1st. the 2nd, there is a lot of good. all of us can keep private and protected from thieves of all kind the things that matter most. there is a lot to love. the 3

to welcome the attorney for the southern district of new york. n 2003 he was appointed deputy attorney general under the united states attorney general. and the university of chicago law school. your written statement will be made a part of the record and i ask that you summarize your testimony in five minutes. and we have the timing light on the table. you may begin your testimony. >> thank you, thank you for hosting this it conversation. and for helping us all talk about an issue that i believe is the hardest i have confronted in government, which is how to balance the privacy we so treasure i worry that we have been talking past each other when it comes to this question of encryption that we call going dark. it would just take a few minutes and try to frame how i think about it in a way i hope is fair minded and if it's not i hope you will tell me where you think it's not. that l logic of encryption will bring us to a place where all of our conversations and all of our papers and effects are private. no one can read our e-mails unless yes say s