evidence exists at this point the malware used within, that was associated with the sony attack was calling back to an ip address in north korea. now the problem with this evidence is that, the malware wasn t unique to the sony job. the malware was actually recycled and purchased somewhere else. so it is very possible this call back to a north korean ip address was something already in the script. i mean we really have no way of knowing. bill: just to be clear on this and wall street journal is reporting that, a single link was traced back to north korea. how many links could there be in something like this? right. i mean, it s impossible to say. there could be a number of sort of call home signals. but i mean the point is, for something like this there is really no reason for a piece of malware to call home. i mean intent is to steal and distribute. the pieces don t, they just don t add up. i mean so to look at really, to sort of grind into where this
council staff member serving under president bush and a fox news contributor. i how are you? good morning to you, gillian. you say cyber time your words now is the foremost threat to american well being. wow. how? well, what i mean by that is that really the face of contemporary terrorist organizations are cyber criminals. they are, you know, organizations whether in the private or public sector overseas of our adversaries that, you know, target us in ways like the sony attack that we saw yesterday. bill: so sony has a problem on its hands, and it s been documented now that they knew they had issues and did not do anything about it. where are you on that? yeah. i mean, by all accounts it seems that sony is an example of a company that, you know, whose cybersecurity protocols are very weak. they needed an overhaul. so i m sort of hopeful that this will serve as a reminder, as a
however all of our intelligence agencies and homeland security said, we don t have any signs of any credible attack. when they tell us that generally about things. we go about our lives and live our lives as planned. the president said, in a not particularly forceful way, i suggest you go to the movies. but i think this is all about people s other lives. their email life. their salaries. the things that they are really concerned about where they live, juan and i think this tells us a lot where our true sensitive, hot spot lies these days. yes. so you had people i might say you know how they ran away when it comes to george clooney s resolution. they also then, also when it came to the internal stuff that was revealed from sony, which as you point out, martha, may be the real cache of information here, all the kind of negative comments about obama, about each other, about movie stars, poor salary for female movie stars, that is when everybody, including oprah winfrey and all
implications for the white house. but we begin with catherine herridge in washington and the latest on this cyber attack is what, catherine? good morning. reporter: well, thank you, bill, and good morning. the obama administration is still weighing its response to the cyber attack on sony with a member of the house homeland security committee who oversees cyber investigations telling fox & friends that the u.s. has to find the right balance. one of the key things you have is a discussion of proportionality and the recognition that any kind of acts have potential to escalate. and you also need to appreciate what s the motives behind a place like north korea? how much credibility do we give them in the world if we overreact? reporter: an intelligence source also tells fox news that the evidence does not point to north korea as the sole entity responsible for the attack, but rather, a main player with support from an outside party. outside party is really code for either iran, rus
something about the sunni tribes. even when we stand up the capability, i don t believe it s anywhere near what we could be providing. so this is a weak happened in iraq weak hand in iraq on the ground indigenous forces, and we could make that considerably stronger if we put more resources into mening them. i m not into helping them. i m not talking about ground combat troops. bill: that s a commander in chief decision though, general. it is. terry is ex ex all he s doings telling you this is what i can do with the resources that i ve been given, and those resource decisions are made in the white house, not in the pentagon. in the past the way we run military operations is that guys in the pentagon and in the field decide what the resources are that are required. in this case the white house made those decisions. bill: general, thank you for your time. jack keane there in washington. appreciate it. good talking to you, bill. bill: you too. martha? martha: some critics blasting