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Technique in which the hacker gained access to jack dorseys phone number and used that phone number, spoofed his phone number, sent a text message to submit that tweet. so theres a lot of opportunities to compromise accounts like this. hopefully well see twitter take some actions to prevent this from happening in the future. mike: would you expect american officials to take action to put extra security on president trumps account? >> i would. id would be surprised if they havent already. one ide...

At least 20 local government entities across texas. it comes as a series of other cities across the nation also are impacted. jackie heinrich is following the story and joins us in our studio. >> officials wouldnt say exactly which towns were impacted or how much money the hackers are asking for due to security concerns. but they said small local governments took the bankrupt of this attack -- took the brunt of this attack. in all 23 entities were hacked by one bad actor friday, the hacker using...

>> capri: tall one hacker may have hit. obtained data stolen from the unnamed companies including educational institutions. much of it did not contain personal identifying information. and finally 42%. thats how many americans decided not to to go on vacation because of the price tank. new survey found only a third can afford a vacation. generation x is more likely than any other to say they dont have the money to splurge. steve and ainsley? steve: all right. todd, thank you. d.n.a., the genetic...

Foreign actor or any hacker for that matter. this should be priority one for our national security. we have a senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell who refuses to even take cursory steps to protect our democracy. >> and youre at the hackers conference and these are self-described hackers in las vegas this weekend. the general consensus seemed to be that it would be a false sense of security as one of them put it to say that we would be able to fix these issues before the 2020 election. >> true...

Some of the voting lists in certain states, so we have a very real risk to our democracy, not just in the influence campaign that russia could run but an effort to actually effect the outcome of the election by hacking into voting machines from either russia, another foreign actor or any hacker for that matter. this should be priority one for our national security. we have a senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell who refuses to even take cursory steps to protect our democracy. >> and youre at t...

Where in front of where the big storms will be. if you add in the humidity, feels like temperature, jon, plenty of spots getting up to 110, 111. that continues on sunday also. jon: adam klotz in the fox weather center. thanks. apple is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to securing its products. what it is offering the hacker who can break into one of its iphones. with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good, we know that theyre always going to...

Now we verify the results by doing a risk limiting audit. this is where you know the machine didnt cheat. you cannot trust the machine as a white paper ballot. >> reporter: you can see there, fred, that a hacker was able to play around with one of the machines. the voting machine manufacturers will say this is not as realistic an environment as real voting scenarios where hackers might not get unlimited access to the machines. regardless of that, lawmakers are taking notice of whats happening he...

Welcome back. how vulnerable are americas voting machines? at the hacker convention in las vegas this weekend, hackers are pulling apart the machines to show how easy it could be to disrupt democracy. the ultimate goal? to make them more secure. cnns tony sullivan is there and here. tell us more. >> reporter: you can think of the hackers as the good guys. theyre trying to expose the vulnerabilities before the bad guys get to it. heres what they had to say. >> voting village is the only third par...

Where in front of where the big storms will be. if you add in the humidity, feels like temperature, jon, plenty of spots getting up to 110, 111. that continues on sunday also. jon: adam klotz in the fox weather center. thanks. apple is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to securing its products. what it is offering the hacker who can break into one of its iphones. the easiest decision ever. i switched to geico and saved hundreds. thats a win. but its not the only reason i switche...

Those who are worried that the hacker convention might give someone with bad intentions some ideas? >> reporter: you know, i think speaking to the organizers here, they were actually able to get some of these voting machines, the voting machines that are being used here are actually also being used in u.s. states right now. they were actually able to purchase some of these machines on ebay. so the point that theyre trying to make here is that if a bad guy wants to get to these machines, theyll b...