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Court ruling in favor of a man who took upskirt photos of female subway riders. the state legislature approving a ban on such pictures, pictures of women or children in public. it comes a day after the states highest court ruled the up-skirt subway photos didnt violate state law because the women werent naked. the court said such actions should be illegal but werent because the way the law was written. >> it set off like a 48-hour fury all over the northeast, but they have changed the law now. i...

Cia has not been merely reacting to the senate intelligence committees reporting. according to this new reporting, its believed that the cia may have been spying on congress spying on the by accessing the computer networks that the cia themselves provided to the committee to use during their initial investigation. "the new york times" is reporting that the cia spied on congress, specifically on the senate committee thats supposed to have oversight of the cia. this is kind of death of the public ...

Conditioning companys system to maintain access to targets network. >> back it up for us laymen. how does a heating company get to target and millions of peoples information being accessed. >> they are very sophisticated. the data they were using was designed just for target and just for this purpose this they did their studying and did when they did this. the company communicates with target for things like contracts and billing and things like that. so from there, it is still murky and get int...

Nearly a million dollars. good evening, matt. >> good evening, greta. >> some, what was this guy doing, this teacher? >> well, back in 2009, he was caught looking at multiple forms of pornography and inappropriate sexual content. certainly in violation of the districts policy of computer usage for teachers and anybody accessing taxpayer funded computer networks. and he was eventually fired in 2010. he fought that through an arbitrator, and the arbitrator came back with a decision in 2012, said b...

Nearly a million dollars. good evening, matt. >> good evening, greta. >> so tell me, what was this guy doing, this teacher? >> well, back in 2009, he was caught looking at multiple forms of pornography and inappropriate sexual content. certainly in violation of the districts policy of computer usage for teachers and anybody accessing taxpayer funded computer networks. and he was eventually fired in 2010. he fought that through an arbitrator, and the arbitrator came back with a decision in 2012, ...

Will be spending and raising massive amounts of money. the fecs computer networks are supposed to keep track of that, but the center for public integrity reports that they were massively hacked just a few months ago, and even worse than that, as some of the officials were looking around and starting to realize that they had been sabotaged, they realized there was no one there who could stop it. >> and it came as the fec had absolute no regular employees actually serving at the agency because of ...

Computer networks didnt even meet the minimum levels of recommended securities of protocols and were at an increased risk of being hack. now, officials -- fec officials at the time said, no, our systems are basically secure. now theyre asking for a few million dollars extra from congress to try to upgrade some of those systems, but this is around agency, really, that now faces nearly 300 backlogs. the report paints a picture of a very dysfunctional agency. and even as political groups have been ...

All right. one of the consequences of the government shutdown is reduced cyber security staff across federal agencies. the cia and other likely targets such as the defense department has fewer eyes on their computer networks. as jim explains, that means more vulnerabilities. >> reporter: the government may be shut down for you and me but for cyber attackers it is open, even more open for business. adversaries from foreign governments to terror groups as the former head of the cia are almost cert...

With a full staff might be missed allowing a compromise to go deeper into an organization to get it more critical assets or critical data. >> reporter: another risk while staff that monitor commute computer networks are on the job, many staff that maintain them are not. meaning they are not being updated to reduce new cyberattacks. the cyberattacks are transforming from spying on computer networks to destroying them. the chairman of the house intelligence committee said its a serious concern acr...

On skeleton crews to police attacks in cyberspace. and successful attack now could do damage even after full staffs return to work. a cyber security expert who advices agencies across the government explained how. >> what may happen as a result of the shut down is that first incident which may have been detected previously with a full staff might be missed allowing a compromise to go deeper into an organization to get it more critical assets critical data. >> reporter: staff that monitor compute...