Ne on worldwide security threats with the director ofburns, fbi director r wray. They joined other leaders from the Intelligence Community to talk about the importance of continued support for ukraine, the israelhamas, competition with china, and efforts to combat the spread of misinformation. This is about two■ . Hours and 15 minutes. I would like to call this hearing to order and welcome to our witnesses. Ctor of National Intelligence avril haines, cia director bill burns, fbi director christopher wray, assistant secretary for intelligence and research at the state department, brett holmgren. Director of National Security agency, general timothy hop. i and Defense Intelligence ageny dea director jeffrey cruz. Thank you for appearing before the senatentelligence Committee Annual worldwide threats hearing. It is important for congress and the American People to hear the leaders of our Intelligence Community about the threats and challenges facing the United States. I would like to fi
Secu■ threats with the director of the cia william burns, fbi director christopher wr. They joined other leaders from the Intelligence Community to talk about the importance of continued suort forthe israelh, competition with china, and misinformation. At5z■4 this is about two hours and 15 minutes. Good afternoon. I would hearing to order and welcome to our witnesses. Director of National Intelligence avril haines,6 most americans will never see the work you do behindbe assuree members of this committee know its importance and we thank you for what you do to keep america safe. The threat environment today we have seen in recent years. We have seen nations backsliding from democratic institutions, authoritarian systems seeking to impose their will upon neighbors while looking to undermine systs been guarantor of stability and security since world war ii. And we see] competition around new technologies. We must ensure that our evolve to meet these new challenges, which means in my mi
Time ever. We were just talking about 61,000. There it is at 68,000 for something that may or may not have value. We begin the hour with news on big tech, most of it not so good. Microsoft is still struggling to deal with a hack attack. U. S. Companies targeted by disinformation campaigns, a threatened ban on tiktok and a look at the troubles inside of google. First up is the microsoft hack. It happened in january but the ill effects are still affecting the company. Thats right. Microsoft updated the 8k this morning saying they are unable to stop the attack by an entity that is believed to be the Russian Foreign intelligence agency. Microsoft says the attacker which in cybersecurity circles is known by code names such as midnight blizzard and cozy bear has been using information stolen from corporate email systems to gain access to some of the companys source code repositories and internal systems. The company says that the russians have stolen secrets shared over email between custome
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