This Morning from CBS News, Dec. 1, 2014
Swiping
Happy Cyber Monday! This holiday shopping season you might worry that every time you swipe your credit or debit card, some criminal might be swiping your account number, and with good reason. The number of reported illegal intrusions into the computer systems of U.S. companies is at a record high this year, and climbing. CBS News 60 Minutes Correspondent Bill Whitaker reports that behind every cybercrime, there are two separate crimes, and two sets of criminals.
Hacking protection
Americans spent some $263 billion shopping online in 2013, with over $2 billion spent on Cyber Monday alone. This year is on track to be even bigger. So what do you need to do to keep your accounts as safe and secure as possible while you're scouring the Web for today's best deals? Here are five smart ways to stay one step ahead of the hackers.
Ferguson tensions
The officer who killed 18-year-old Michael Brown quit his job over the weekend. Darren Wilson leaves the Ferguson police department after less than three years of service, with no severance package, pension or benefits. Wilson's attorney tells CBS News Correspondent Vladimir Duthiers that Wilson quit to protect his fellow officers and help heal the community.
Legal avenues
The lawyer for the family of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager killed in Ferguson, Missouri this summer, will examine "every legal avenue" after a grand jury declined to indict the white police officer who shot him. "The family greatly wanted to have the killer of their unarmed son held accountable," Benjamin Crump said in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation" yesterday.
Under the wire
Members of Congress return to Washington this week for their final work period of the year, and the last time during the Obama administration that Democrats will control either the House or Senate. The most pressing order of business in the next two weeks is for Congress to pass a spending bill to fund the government. The current legislation to keep the government running expires on December 11. If no new money is appropriated by then, the government will shut down.
Food fight
While we're giving thanks for the feast this weekend let's not leave out what may be one of the best ideas that America ever had. It's called the World Food Programme -- the emergency first responder to hunger anywhere on the globe. The United Nations launched WFP in 1961 at the urging of the United States. CBS News Anchor Scott Pelley reports for 60 Minutes, that today in Syria you will find heroes of the World Food Programme saving the most vulnerable people in what looked to us like the edge of oblivion.
Iran
Iran's Supreme Leader yesterday called for a continued military buildup, apparently with little regard to the ongoing Vienna talks over the country's nuclear program. CBS News Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports, hardline religious conservatives still wield a lot of power in Iran, but huge chunks of society disagree with their politics -- and their policies.
Sony hacked
Sony Pictures Entertainment was the target of a massive cyber-invasion, and North Korea is one of the main suspects. Over Thanksgiving weekend, hackers leaked five unreleased Sony movies to file-sharing websites. As CBS News Correspondent Carter Evans reports, it could be payback for another new production.
Dream team
The "Dream Team" CBS News Correspondent Lee Cowan followed Sunday Morning doesn't play football or basketball or any other sport of the season. Instead, these team members go all-out to make the dreams of children come true . . . wherever and whenever they can.
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