digital reliance means this is of a greater stale. stuxnet was something that involved everything from top cyber experts in the world, but also experts in nuclear physics and engineering, intelligence analysts and collection, so this is a realm where yes, the there s new actors, nontraditional actors that can play, whether you re talking about anonymous or the syrian electronic army, but the stakes are still the big dogs and that s really what we need to when we re doing our threat assessments, measure this in a new 21st century way. so general keith alexander, the head of the nsa and the head of cyber command as you point out, says that the thing people don t understand is that if you want us to protect your bank accounts, your on-line accounts, from cyber attacks, from piracy, we have to have some way of getting into them in the first
one guy breaking into the system and there s the one computer that controls everything, whether it s die hard or mission impossible tom cruise coming from the ceiling whereas the snowden example shows he didn t have to break in anything, he was sitting there the system doing it. so there are real threats here, but too often both in hollywood, but also in major government statements, you ll see senior officials say things like a couple teenagers sipping red bull in their parents basements could cause a wmd-style impact. no stuxnet the first cyber weapon, we used it to essentially set back iranian nuclear research, it both shows what you can do in this realm you can cause damage and as we move into the future of more and more reliance on digital systems and the move towards the internet of things, where we have not just our e-mail that we re using, but smart cars, smart thermostats, smart power grid, that combination of digital weaponry and greater
lot of hollywood movies. do you look at something like die hard 4 the idea being that you can take down the critical infrastructure, transportation, energy, of the united states, pretty easily? this is one of those areas where it s not just hollywood that describes it pretty easy and often in hollywood it s the one guy breaking into the system and there s the one computer that controls everything, whether it s die hard or mission impossible tom cruise coming from the ceiling whereas the snowden example shows he didn t have to break in anything, he was sitting there the system doing it. so there are real threats here, but too often both in hollywood, but also in major government statements, you ll see senior officials say things like a couple teenagers sipping red bull in their parents basements could cause a wmd-style impact. no stuxnet the first cyber
them and even start enriching using secret stocks of uranium. reporter: espionage against iran is tough. the u.s. relies on drones, electronic eavesdropping and spies for information about the current nuclear effort. when an unmanned u.s. drone went down over iran nearly two years ago, speculation was the high-tech the spy plane was caught gathering nuclear intelligence. iran believes israel was behind the killing of several of their scientists. and that stuxnet was infecting their computers. you have to get into their computer systems. you need iranian nushl sign tests to tell what s really going on. reporter: those inspectors will be a big help. but so far, no good answer on how to know everything about
rating. for the first half of the year, all of them up between 12 and 14%. still all in, it s been a very lucky 2013. a crack in the president s inner circle. the man once described as obama s favorite general is under investigation. and it s regarding top secret material that appeared in a book written by the new york teams reporter david sanger. according to nbc news, cartwright may have leaked information about a virus called stuxnet. when news of stuxnet virus broke, republicans accused the white house of leaking the information itself because they haute it was going to boost the president s national security kred before the election. so what happened? the president has made a huge show of going after leakers, investigating mean so far, seven