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Concerned in the government maybe we ought to do a little hunting and quality background searches to see who we select to fix the stuff? >> right. well, i mean thats been an issue since edward snowden and the nsa who are these contractors getting into our databases it was a focus of kathleen sebelius testimony, you know, last week. they were kind of -- they were going after her on some of the security flaws that they thought might be. >> i was at that hearing. she didnt say gee we knew qssi had ...

Down but the conversation were really going to start having is what are the security flaws or vulnerabilities on this site, because you wanted to trust that a site built like this is very, very secure, but what were beginning to see are security analysts going in and saying oh, hey, theres a vulnerability here and here. cnn money we actually put out an article showing that a string of vulnerabilities would enable someone to go in and potentially reset your password. theyve been fixed but thats j...

To put in the code and say reset password. you you would then get a string of security questions. if you couldnt answer them, it would give you an e-mail so for anyone kind of hacking if they have your e-mail, they can plug it into the internet and social mediaen an find out sensitive information about you that would enable them to likely be able to answer those security questions. so its a lot of theoreticals but i will tell you this, talk to folks in the hacker community this kind of thing is ...

Causing these systems to crash and where the security flaws may be in this also and with that, im over time. i yield back. >> thank you. mr. dingell. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we are having some questions before us which are very important. [inaudible] okay. i note the problems are not surprising given the fact that there has been considerable obstruction to the program going forward. i received a letter from a constituent recently. she said i only make $12 an hour. i buy my own health insuran...

Sign on, sign up? new numbers on obama care and even more worries about the rough rollout. power down. security flaws in americas power grid. a new study sheds light on what could put us in the dark. 50 years later, a new book on the jfk assassination that could silence some conspiracy theorists. and changing channels. is netflix about to become cable tv ready? hello, everyone. welcome to "weekends with alex witt." just past 1:00 p.m. in the east. lets go to front page politics. back from ...

Felons routine unauthorized access to navy facilities. ohio congress mike turner who is on the armed services committee has now asked the pentagon inspector general to give congress more information about this audit. he wrote, given the disturbing events of today, i am highly concerned that the access of controlled systems at our nations military installations have serious security flaws. we will speak to the congressman turner in a few hours now at the "cnn newsroom." but first back to new york...

Recognized as somebody swho suppos who is supposed to be in that building. >> an report found they may have increased the security risks in an effort to cut costs and given convicted felons access to navy facilities. mark turner has now asked the pentagon inspector general to give congress more information about this audit. he wrote, given the disturbing events of today, i am highly concerned that the act of controlled systems at our nations military installations have serious security flaws. th...

See you. >> theres us looking at the phone. >> reporter: and thats just the beginning. >> the other thing we can do is record conversations. i can use the listen function here. and when i click listen, im going to record ten seconds of conversation on this phone. >> reporter: how did they do it? >> we used angry birds. its a very popular game. >> reporter: popular app but be careful where you download it. >> they say its a very great game, go to the link, they install if on their phone, theyre a...

What theyre talking about. >> he was heckled. >> you could think about it like this. its like batman. they have the power to do bad and to break in to things -- devices we own. right? but a lot of them use the power for good. helping with security. helping expose flaws in systems to be exposed. maybe we own a television and there theres something wrong with it. theyre trying to find a security flaw with this. this is why the government oftentimes looks at them for national security. >> other tha...

Benghazi. youve uncovered some of those security flaws, tell us what those were. >> thank you, i spoke yesterday with someone who was called a regional security officers, the person in charge of the security in that country, and the state department personnel and someone who worked extensive will in the middle east. says catherine look at the pictures of the consulate in benghazi, a location classified as high risk of a terrorist attack or high risk of civil unrest, from that classification, ver...