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Formspring. this isnt one of the cases that russians indict a russian hacker, but nothing comes of it because theyre in russia and this guy will never actually see a u.s. courtroom. this guy is russian, but at the time that the justice department indicted him, he wasnt in russia, he was in the czech republic. and police in the czech republic arrested him. and in march of this year, they extradited him to the united states. and he is now in jail in federal custody in the san francisco bay area aw...

From bad hackers. jillian turner has details. >> the house committee is thinking outside of the box to protect future elections from foreign meddling. in 2019 they propose the department of homeland security set up a hacking competition to identify vulnerabilities in systems across the country. the idea for ethical hackers to break into the u.s. system. voter databases and report their findings back to the government. this is called red teaming and said the government will use the hackers findin...

Attacked through their e-mail accounts. these hackers send them phishing e-mails. take us inside the mind of a hacker. why do they want in? what do you think theyre looking for? >> for some control here supposedly supposedly, the threat actors in this case are nation states like russia, for example, so they obviously want to influence the election, and one of the most common ways to attack these individuals, to get access to their e-mail, is through phishing attacks. phishing attacks are extreme...

Largely because there were a couple reasons who were highly paid lobbyists in d.c. his opponent made clear that pawlentys negative remarks about president trump didnt reflect where the republican party was in the state and as weve seen across the country that meant pawlenty is no longer in politics. >> i think he left a $2.7 million a year job and his name is known so well in the state. thanks for taking us through it all. appreciate it. as we are fast approaching the midterms as we just talke...

To be running for governor. drew griffin has more. >> reporter: right around the same time russians were trying to penetrate state voting systems in the summer of 2016, cyber security expert and part time hacker logan lamb decided to check out how georgias centralized voting system was holding up. he found an open window. >> there were documents with election day supervisor passwords, a voter registration database with 6.3 million records of all of georgias voters. >> reporter: including full na...

Us. >> you said in a statement that you were probably the closest person toer in the white house, that you interacted with her pretty much on a daily basis. >> yeah. what shes done is hacker. its infuriating there are a whole bunch of adjectives i could use. >> did you ever raiseoncerns about her? because obviously anybody who has watched "the apprentice" or seen her on any tv show knows what she is potentially capable of. >> you know, lets be clear. omarosa is an actress, and thats exactly what...

Like to make a lot easier and. at very many users must first love their real names and then they receive one log from various online sites and his own phone. his vision has to give back users control over their data in the digital world. i dont believe we can currently control where our data is. there i mean we save all that here in europe ended. with data protection regulation facebook and google its all sent to america very me users can decide which information is collected by online platforms...

A billion votes in florida, that hacker is 11 years old. 11-year-old emmett brewer successfully hacked into this replica of the florida secretary of states website and did change the vote totals for a recent election. i should also tell you that he did it in under ten minutes. this 11-year-old changed the names and the vote numbers that appeared publicly on the secretary of states website. he was not able to change the actual voting total records maintained by the secretary of states office, but...

Wi-fi networks have been hacked into. during convention events, if anyone is negligently logged on to an insecure network, their private log-in information will get sxhakd then posted on a big wall of sheep splashed along one wall of the convention center for everybody to see and feel embarrassed about. prank city. it is designed to make suckers into fools. this past weekend in las vegas at one of these annual hacker conventions, one conventioneer participant hacked into an exact replica of the ...

The secretary of states real official election page that this guy hacked. scary. even more scary when you learn the hacker who gave himself over a billion votes in florida, that hacker is 11 years old. 11-year-old emmett brewer successfully sbhookd this replica of the secretary of states website and did change the vote totals for a recent election. i should tell you that he did it in under ten minutes. this 11-year-old changed the names and the vote numbers that appeared publicly on the secretar...