Weve got to go to terminal six. This is captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Justice correspondent jeff pegues is following this. Jeff . Reporter scott, the meeting in the oval office occurred last wednesday. President trump spoke with both a Russian Foreign minister, sergei lavrov, and Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. According to the Washington Post, the President Trump went off script and began describing details about an Islamic State terrorist threat related to the use of Laptop Computers on aircraft. The information the president shared reportedly came from a u. S. Ally and was considered so sensitive that it had not been shared with other countries. National security adviser h. R. Mcmaster told the Washington Post, the president and the foreign minister revealed common threats to include threats to aviation. At no time, mcmaster says, were any intelligence discussed and no military operations were disclosed that were not already known pub
System but not the older versions. Microsoft hasnt been supporting their decadeold systems hike windows xp, and this attack took advantage of that. So microsoft issued an emergency patch this past weekend. Reporter the fix was too late to help those already attacked. In a blog post, microsofts president , brad smith acknowledged the company has the first responsibility to address these issues. But went on to point a finger at the National Security agency, which originally identified the software flaw, then lost it when hackers broke into nsa computers. An equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the u. S. Military having some of its tomahawk missiles stolen. In so i think the nsa should probably err on the side of disclosure. Reporter in seattle, kyle kosher works to defend against hacker rs and thinks the nsa could have done more to prevent this attack. They could possibly figure out when these vulnerabilities are going to be rediscovered or leaked and alert the vendors
That cyber attack that infected computers in every corner ever the world began to slow today. A pair of engineers figured out how to stall the attack for a few dollars. Charlie dagata has our coverage. Reporter from china as main oil company to a hospital in indonesia, to japans nissan car company. The ransom ware attack ricocheted around the world again today as people went back to work. And today, asia bore the brunt of the attacks. Chinese University Students were even locked out from their term papers. Elsewhere, germanys railroads were hit. Frances renault car to close. Businesses in mongolia were hit. The scale of the attack is called unprecedented. It indicates 150 countries are affected and beyond 200,000 individual victims. Reporter the ransom ware works by freezing the computers, encrypting the files, with hackers demanding 300 in ransom to decorrode them or theyd be destroyed. Called wannacry, it exploits a weakness in Microsoft Software first stolen from the nag security ag
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. Tonight the Washington Post is reporting that President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian Foreign minister and the Russian Ambassador to the United States when the men met at the white house last week. The paper says that current and former u. S. Officials say that mr. Trump revealed details of an isis terror threat. Details that had been learned by a u. S. Ally. Mr. Trump has the authority to declass fie secrets but telling the russians about the information may have threatened to expose the allied countries intelligence operation. Mr. Trumps relentless criticism of Hillary Clintons handling of classified information may be the main reason hes president today. Justice correspondent jeff pegues is following this. Reporter the meeting in the oval office occurred last wednesday. President trump spoke with both the Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador kisl