University. Sony pictures was hacked, compromising date yaf executives and employees. North korea denied being behind the hack. Before that, the victim was retailer target. 40 million records were stolen. President obama says enough is enough and wants to heighten the response to cyber attack s and to coordinate intelligence gathered. Tomorrow mr. Obama will sign an order directing the government and private sector to share more information about Cyber Security threats. The ceo of red seal Cyber Security firm will be at the summit tomorrow and says its a good defense against breeches. Best way to defeat that is sharing information so that those can be employed to protect them. The white house says the summit is the first of its kind a whos who of leaders plan to attend this event. This after many are hesitant about supporting more information sharing without reforming surveillance practices the electronic fronteer foundation. We have heard how the government has been gathering informat
Holding babies and greeting supporters today. Yes, on a mission to step up the nations response to the threat hackers pose to Cyber Security. The president arrived about 45 minutes ago or so accompanied by three bay area members of congress. The white house confirmed he will sign an order encouraging share are the threat information. Abc7 News Reporter vic lee is live for the arrival tonight. Vic . That is air force one, of course, behind me. The motorcade took the president to San Francisco and he should be at the Fairmont Hotel by now. This is a secure area of sfo. The president walked to the crowd from the plane. He shook hands with people and held a baby. Hes not even running for office. President obama has a full day tomorrow attending a Cyber Security summit at stanford university. Sony pictures was hacked, compromising date yaf executives and employees. North korea denied being behind the hack. Before that, the victim was retailer target. 40 million records were stolen. Presiden
Back several decades to find out what makes Banking Systems unstable. He concluded that the deciding factor is the level of political interference in the system. This last about one hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome. Were going to start our program. Im david cowen, president of the museum of American Finance. Were joined today by chairman of the board and our friends from cspan are taping today. Our guest lecture is charles calomiris, professor Financial Institutions at the Columbia University business school. He also teaches at the school of international and public affairs. Charles received his ba in economics from Delhi University where he graduated magna cum laude and matriculated through stanford when he cut his ph. D in economics. He is a member of the shaft open Market Committee as well as the financial economists roundtable and the Federal Reserves centennial advisory board. Charlie is wellknown in the field. Am quite poor that two of the many accolades that he has receiv
How George Washington transformed the office of the president. All this and more on cspan2 this week and. The full schedule is by the way on booktv. Org. Sandra grimes talk about hunting down and capturing cia mole aldrich ames who compromise the secondlargest number of assets in cia history. Circle of treason the cia account of traitor aldrich ames and the men he betrayed of five c i a principles test with crowding out aldrich ames and build it case against him. This is about an hour. Host we are very fortunate with us to have Sandra Grimes this afternoon. She has quite a remarkable story to tell, a story from inside the cia where she worked for years, hired by the cia right out of college in 1967. Sandy spend two decades rising through the agencys ranks and assignments working against the soviet union and Eastern European countries. She was about to resign in 1991 when she was asked to stay for one more assignment. That assignment involves joining a five person team charged with figu
Quarters and the field station where the new asset was. We went back to basic toes communicate. It wasnt the stone age, but it was pretty close we said. We did have a technical something that was sort of out of this world at the time. We have our new asset. He is okay. We are keeping this one alive. Enter my coauthor who is on assignment in garbone as our chief of stations. She returns home and she is trapped with trying to determine what in the heck happened. She has a Small Task Force of people who begin this effort. At the same time jean and her people are looking at our losses, the fbi has also established a task force. They suffered similar problems with their soviet cases during the same time period as we. All right. Now we are going to have to fast forward. It is early 1991, a little over five and a half years later and we still dont have a clue as to what happened. That is not to say there were not plenty of explanations and leads. There were lots. Each was fully investigated a