It blanked out screens in the russian government. At first, at least 40 health units and hospitals were hit across britain. 16 hospitals shut down there after computers were invaded by a ransom ware attack. Fedex is among the companies caught in the cyber attack. Now, the hackers appear to have exploited information in leaked nsa documents detailing the gaping holes in Computer Software code around the world. With me now is fox business hillary von. Hillary, whats the latest . Liz, this is new. We just got an update from frances Cyber Security agency. They sent out a security message warning users that any device using windows is vulnerable to this ransom ware attack. But software claims that anyone using the most updated windows system should be protected, as long as they have that antivirus software. Now, Security Experts are calling this growing cyber attack unprecedented and youre right. It has hit us here at home. Fedex confirming their Computer Systems were also targeted by the r
That is not accurate. Charlie the administrations credibility has been called into question from the several misleading accounts. Joining me now from washington is bob costa from the washington post. I am pleased him back on the program. Bob, one broad question, what damage do you think this is doing to donald trump, if any . Bob it is doing damage to him on several fronts. Within the white house, it has caused some tumult. The staff, in some respects, felt unprepared for this. The president made a personal decision with the attorney general and white house counsel. More broadly, the party on capitol hill im just walked over from the capital, and they feel like they were given a curveball this week by this decision. They were not ready to talk to the president s decision or defend him in an articulate way. It gives disruption to his entire agenda as he tries to pursue health care and taxes. Now, all anyone is talking about in washington is russia and former director comey. Charlie why
That is not accurate. Charlie the administrations credibility has been called into question from the several misleading accounts. Joining me now from washington is bob costa from the washington post. I am pleased him back on the program. Bob, one broad question, what damage do you think this is doing to donald trump, if any . Bob it is doing damage to him on several fronts. Within the white house, it has caused some tumult. The staff, in some respects, felt unprepared for this. The president made a personal decision with the attorney general and white house counsel. More broadly, the party on capitol hill im just walked over from the capital, and they feel like they were given a curveball this week by this decision. They were not ready to talk to the president s decision or defend him in an articulate way. It gives disruption to his entire agenda as he tries to pursue health care and taxes. Now, all anyone is talking about in washington is russia and former director comey. Charlie why
Challenge to washington and seoul, korea. We have the world covered here on daybreak asia. We will be live in beijing for chinas plans for a new silk road. In new york, all the details of the global hack attack. He careful as you turn your computers on. Liveis daybreak asia from bloombergs u. S. And asian headquarters. It sounds really ominous. It is just after 7 00 p. M. , those is a big story hospitals and government facilities being attacked, but all eyes will be on the bill and road forum, 78 billion in Infrastructure Spending pledged at the time we are a focus on data, retail sales data out of china. When it comes to the u. S. , theng seems to move much s p 500 2400 for the past couple of weeks. China,a big project from how will the u. S. And the rest of the world react. Earthquakelayy quality . We will examine that later in the program. We seem pretty stuck here. The retail Sales Numbers on friday did not eliminate anymore on where consumers in the market are going, so we will wa
Secretary wilber ross are scheduled to meet in washington. Topic is trade. Cyberattacks. The countries, 200,000 the weekend. Other about who he was hit . We had people from Healthcare Telecom and Car Manufacturers manufacturers. In terms of france we had car to shut downad production at a number of plants this. To mitigate theres a disruption in germany on the trains and Telecom Companies reported some disruption in their services. Whenever a hospital gets thats a serious business. How sophisticated was this . Take patch out in march and put it on your microsoft, it fine. Be i think it wasnt too hard these people to mitigate once they were affected. Pretty easy to have taken some precautions that meant you were not going to be affected by this. Saw a number of companies that had not taken those precautions. Surprising. In term of sophistication of most people think it was not too sophisticated. We know thatlf, as the u. S. Oped by National Security agency. Anybody could use that tool t