Episode 267: Cyberattacks and our National Security
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack by hackers in April sent shockwaves through U.S. national security circles. What do we need to know about cybercrime and how to prevent it? Newt’s guest is Chris Gore, CEO of D4C Global, a counterintelligence firm based in Virginia. This interview was recorded in September 2019.
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| 0:30.7 | On this episode of Newt's World, we are fighting a new war with an invisible front line and an |
| 0:39.4 | indesernable enemy. The enemy can strike us at any time without warning and we are doing |
| 0:45.0 | enough to fortify and protect ourselves. This is America's secret cyber war and we've been |
| 0:51.0 | fighting it since the dawn of the internet. It includes cyber attacks on companies, governments |
| 0:56.4 | and individuals, hacking, spreading propaganda through social media, intellectual property theft, |
| 1:03.3 | and stealing our military secrets. It is an invisible war we're fighting every day and we, |
| 1:10.7 | as a nation, need to do more to protect ourselves against these advanced adversaries and |
| 1:16.2 | please to introduce my guest, Chris Gore. Chris is CEO of D4C Global, a private counterintelligence |
| 1:24.4 | firm based in Fairfax Virginia. He served as a former Air Force OSI special agent. |
| 1:32.0 | We really underestimate the amount of criminal involvement in cyber because many companies |
| 1:47.7 | just pay them off and stay quiet because they don't want the publicity that they can |
| 1:52.7 | be penetrated. It's a year impression that there's probably actually more cyber crime |
| 1:57.8 | than we know about because there's a substantial pattern of not reporting. |
| 2:03.7 | If you have the ability to get onto a network whether it's a corporate backbone with |
| 2:08.0 | their data or a power grid to steal information, you have the ability to cause damage. So it's |
| 2:15.3 | just a matter of intent to change from stealing to destruction. I can take you all the way |
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