account noticed a fishing attack, flagged it, and one of them responded by saying, this is a legitimate e-mail, john needs to change his pass word immediately. now, the aide later said he knew it was a fishing e-mail and he meant to write illegitimate, not legitimate. it is shocking, such a small error could have huge repercussions. how often does something like this happen? most hacks today, don, actually begin with an e-mail. it is called social engineering, and what this attack method is, is a junior high schooler could do it. they send malicious links or, like in this case, a fake g-mail. we call this in the security world credential harvesting, in other words stealing people s credentials, and this stuff is really, really common. i i don t think podesta knew, he would never have put in his credentials or his assistant, whoever put in his credentials was fooled by the attack.
we call this in the security world credential harvesting. in other words, stealing people s credentials and this stuff is really, really common. and i m really i don t think podesta knew, he would have never put in his credentials or his assistant. whoever put in the credentials was actually fooled by the attack and this is the problem is there s you know, there needs to be more security awareness behind the trade craft that hackers use so the public doesn t fall for these types of attacks and hopefully my new book art of invisibility will help people with that. nice plug there, thank you, kevin mitnick, appreciate that. thank you. when we come back, yeezus and the president-elect. kanye west meets with donald trump in new york. i m not making this up. it actually happened. both of them blond, by the way. or something. i discovered a woman my family tree, named marianne gaspard. i became curious where in africa she was from. so i took the ancestry dna test to find out more