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For example, and under the "frequently bought together" heading, amazon helpfully suggests you might also want car plexe.iveded for black powderos potassium nitrate, for example, and the site suggests sulfur and charcoal. dig a little deeper and battery terminals, presumably for the detonator, and ball bearings, possibly for shrapnel come up. the algorithms behind these shopping hints may be based on the buying patterns of amateur fireworks makers and backyard rocket scientists. but former bomb ...

This is just one of many businesses completely leveled by the storm. were inside of a restaurant. you can see where the wiring has fallen apart. a tree completely blowing through the roof. now with hurricane jose picking up where hurricane irma left off residents here in puerto rico are getting nervous once again. lester? >> morgan radford in san juan, thank you. well have much more on this story ahead, but now we want to turn to a major consumer alert. a massive security breach revealed today b...

How would you describe the presidents level of confidence in the attorney general, jeff sessions? >> i have not had a discussion with him about that. >> reporter: spicer was given not one, but two, chances to express the presidents confidence in sessions, and did not. scott, only yesterday, via twitter, the president publicly criticized the justice departments handling of the travel ban litigation, and he remains irked about sessions decision to recuse himself from the russia investigation. >> p...

The hackers stole credentials from a u.s. elections software company in florida. they then used those credentials to send fake e-mails to 122 local government officials giobably involved in the management of voter registration systems. those e-mails were sent just over a week before the november 8th election and were laced with malware. the report says the viruses tried to access election-related hardware and software applications. d cess to voter registration records could have allowed the fock...

Tonight that a manhunt is under way for a traitor inside the central intelligence agency. the c.i.a. and the f.b.i. are conducting a joint investigation into one of the worst security breaches in c.i.a. history, which exposed thousands of top- secret documents. jeff pegues is breaking this story tonight. >> reporter: the security breach involves the theft of c.i.a. documents and hacking tools used to penetrate smartphones, smart television, and computer systems. sources familiar with the investi...

Russians were to blame. >> did their actions impact one candidate over another? >> i would say that their actions definitely were more detrimental to one candidate than the other. >> reporter: adam myers works for crowd strike, the cyber security firm that investigated the hack and that works closely with u.s. intelligence. what did you see? >> imagine somebody breaks into a bank and they use some sort of special saw to cut through the safe. we found that saw as they were using it. >> reporter: ...

Sites are being criticized for not doing enough to stop bogus stories that seemed to dominate the election cycle. jericka duncan has more on this. >> reporter: when a satirical website headlined a story "pope francis shocks the world, backs trump," the fake news went viral. waves of false headlines on social media have turned readers into believers. this week, social media giants facebook and google said they will go after hoax websites by restricting ad revenue. facebook is also planning to lau...

An obvious suspect following alleged hacks into the e-mails of democratic national committee members, but these attacks seemed to dollars more than votes. >> the idea of launching a massive attack, but a ddos attack to disrupt the internet, could have massive economic impacts in the united states. >> reporter: ddos stands for distributed denial of service, an attack that chokes a web site with fake requests. this particular attack didnt hit any brand-name web sites directly. instead, it focused ...

People and i have no doubt well see a lot more of this going forward. its a very effective way to make your mark felt online. >> reporter: all while strike the betd rock of the modern world as well. >> ninan: u.s. defense secretary ashton carter met with iraqs prime minister in baghdad today and got an update on the battle for moz ul. iraqi forces backed by the u.s. military are trying to retake the city from isis. hundreds near mosul have been treated for breathing problems after isis set fire ...

The u.s., unable to load popular websites like twitter, netflix, amazon, paypal, and a long list of others. >> what we know is that a cyber criminal group or a group of people created the opportunity where they had web traffic, and they funneled all of that traffic at a particular company, dyn. >> the attack was aimed a tech company based in new hampshire that serves as an internet switchboard and allows people to connect to websites. it crippled dns, or domain name servers, the so-called addres...