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>> youre really left to scrape together charity care, go out care, die sooner. there arent really a lot of options. >> reporter: now, if the conversation goes to that level, the president himself might be vulnerable, if his own plan -- his own plan would put strict limits on future medicare spending and some analysts say it would go even further than the ryan plan. jon: jim angle in washington, thank you. jenna: calls for stronger security at our nations ports. a new investigation uncovering ser...

At a briefing homeland security secretary napolitano said the $600 million border security bill congress passed last week provides all the tools the dpa. needs to secure the southwest border. >> this is what we asked for and that is what we thought would be enough. >> she spoke after the president signed the bill without a televised ceremony and adds 1,000 new agents and more for agents and customs and buys two surveillance plans and better communication gear. >> this border has never had more m...

Found that the dod defensive systems to prevent the kind of shooting that occurred at fort hood were inadequate and unclear, secretary gates today issued a number of interim steps to try to fill those security gaps. now, the most serious shortfall again appears to be in the finding that the defense department was not totally committed to the joint counterterrorism task force and thats important because that terrorism -- counterterrorism task force had determined months before the shooting occurr...

After the hour. waves crashed into a cruise ship killing two passengers. 14 other people were hit, two seriously. a spokesperson said waves broke windows on the cruise ship, and weather likely caused the waves. and then the airport is at high risk for a terror attack. chicago aviation authorities are more concerned about delays with the $5 billion expansion than security gaps. the boss that was fired last year is suing for over $2 million and to get his job back. chicagos department of aviatio...

Microsoft have been around for a long time theyre based on a fundamentally different principle called open source. in contrast to the proprietary software sold by microsoft and other companies open source software uses a source code thats publicly available. thats why hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world can improve it expand on it and fix bugs. the collective work carried out by a swarm of programmers identifies and closes security gaps and efficiently produces state of the art...

Specialist can understand this source code but the computers dont understand source code it has to be transformed into binary machine code which only computers can read and understand. this is the source code for the command display hello world one of the first things you might learn in your first programming class. and this is what the command looks like translated into machine code. microsoft only makes the machine code available to its customers but we cant decipher it ourselves microsoft kee...

Created a culture that accepts this mechanism so its a real challenge to create alternatives. alternatives to microsoft have been around for a long time theyre based on a fundamentally different principle called open source. in contrast to the proprietary software sold by microsoft and other companies open source software uses a source code thats publicly available. thats why hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world can improve it expand on it and fix bugs. the collective work carri...

Dates many types of computing devices with many different vendors processors and operating systems are susceptible to these exploits. researchers who discovered the security gaps a computer is powered by a r m n m d also affected a claim that a.m.d. has denied software updates will be released to help protect against security gaps these could cause computers to run more slowly with some estimates indicating a dip of up to thirty percent but intel says that ordinary user is likely to see a perfor...

We heard from miter in congress, one of their representatives testified about their involvement in the new health care law. here is what he had to say. >> were not in charge of security for healthcare.gov. we were not asked or nor did we perform end to end security testing. we have no view on the overall safety or security status of healthcare.gov. jenna: that being said, why do you still feel theyre the ones to talk to? >> because they produced document that is weve been made aware of that show...

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