Security Weakness News Today

moment. plus president joe biden is ready to make more stops on the campaign trail. but some democratic candidates arent exactly eager to join him on stage. also ahead, the latest from ukraine. as its forces launch a major counter-offensive to re-take a russian-occupied area in that countrys south. good morning. welcome to "way too early." on this tuesday, august 30th, im jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news has learned that some of the documents recove...

>> neil: you know, we still dont know the timeline but we know what was going on around the time this video was shot. the shooter was in the school. salvador ramos was in robb elementary school. those parents were hearing shots. and they were bewildered and confused and angry and wondering why someone, anyone with a gun wasnt in that school to take down ramos. so many details we dont know. this much we do. a lot of anger, a lot of questions and a lot of concern as to whether there was ...

In the end, a radio glitch caused a hijacking code to be sent to air traffic controllers. whew! a half naked man disruptintd a delta flight. >> that is more than half naked. im just saying. >> three-quarters make i.d.? >> he jumped onto the wing, pounded on the windows. imagine being in that seat as someone is pounding on the window. the man is identified as jared jones. he scaled a fence at the airport before making his way onto the taxiway. he is 19. he was arrested in minutes. as for the wh...

I want to especially thank not only the nypd but also our passengers and our customers for their patience. thank you. >> were going to take some questions. >> commissioner, is there any history -- >> did the suspect utter anything before -- >> the question is, did the suspect utter anything before he detonated the device? part of the investigation. >> where were the devices -- >> -- potential target for years -- [ inaudible ] -- typically have police on platforms and on trains. but there are a l...

And getting our passengers around. i want to especially thank not only the nypd but also our passengers and our customers for their patience. thank you. >> were going to take some questions. >> suspect -- anything before he -- >> the question is, did the subject utter anything before he detonated the device. part of the investigation. >> commissioner -- >> where was the device located? >> -- potential target for years? typically have police on platforms and on trains but there are a lot of these...

Their job was to collect all of the possibly collectible sensitive information about you. especially financial information, and use that to generate credit scores. something were all familiar with. so this is kind of like fort knox getting knocked over and all the gold going out the door. why goldfinger went after fort knox in the bond movies. >> let me ask you something. you wrote a smart article that i had trouble parsing because i just dont live in this world and know it that well, but you se...

Sirens across the city. today the city said the system was finally back up and running, all fixed. they are knot not discussing the details how their infrastructure was targeted, but they do say they believe the attack on the sirens came from the dallas area. they say, quote, we are taking friday nights incident very seriously. as for who might have done this, whether it was just a benign hack designed to point out a security weakness, we have no idea. dallas pd and the fbi are investigating. jo...

Security weakness, we have no idea. dallas pd and the fbi are investigating. joining us is xeni jardin, shes an american hero. thanks for being here. >> thank you, rachel. its you whos the hero. >> well, lets just end here. seems like weve peaked. when i first heard this story, i assumed it first a computer-based hack. when i heard it was a sound-based hack, i thought this is like the beginning of hackers school. this is how people used to hack long distance phone calls, right. >> this is o.g. h...

Traditionally think of hacking, it was remotely done, in fact, theyre not operated by a computer system at all. theyre radio controlled. they get turned on and off by radio transmissions, by sounds, it appears somebody took control of the frequency and transmitted the tones that took off all across the city. well, today the sirens are all back up and running. theyre not discussing the details of how the infrastructure was targeted but they do say they believe the attack on the sirens came from t...

That tonight. a german hacker said he developed the ability to hijack a plane in flight with a cell phone. its a terrifying idea, something like from a movie. does it add up? tom foreman has a special report. >> reporter: a new app exploits a security weakness, mimicking a ground based navigation system and sending false information to planes in flight. a user can change instrument displays, make oxygen masks drop or take over the autopilot. at least that is what the inventor hugo tesso sugges...