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Focused on election cyber security the def-con hackers fighting the good fight in the cyber security battles have released a report pointing out remaining vulnerabilities that are unlikely to be fixed before november sixth one example a type of voting machine currently in use in twenty six states is vulnerable to remote hacking and another machine still used in eighteen states was able to be hacked in just two minutes. maybe not for alice miller and her team but for many u.s. states making votin...

Alice miller is thankful for the help and we work very closely with us we have homeland security advisers always on each level we have cyber security advisors that we work with we have smaller groups within our own network that we work with we always cool cool when. however some critics say all of this is a step in the right direction but comes too late case in point this years def con in las vegas nevada conference for what are known as white hat hackers also focused on election cyber security ...

>> reporter: so this is in favor of trumps re-election for you? >> yes. and desantis, we want to keep the republicans strong to keep our morals and the ideas strong and what we see for the united states. i was at his rally two years ago in naples, when he was running for president, and this is two years old and very proud of it. i am here again to support him. that is what is the strongest thing, and also i did a paper voting, and of course, i dont trust george soros who has funded all of the vo...

Protecting our democracy. mike: sure. >> what we have learned in this report that was released this week is what weve known for a while, which is these systems are old. they are aging. and theyre vulnerable to remote and physical hacking. mike: ess, the company involved says, quote, at its core, a voting machine is a computer which can be compromised by skilled hackers, who have full access and unlimited time. while theres no evidence that any vote in a u.s. election has ever been compromised by...

Potential election hacking, and those fears now compounded after a report claiming the widely used model 650 high speedball lot counting machine -- high speed ballot counting machine is vulnerable to a cyberattack because of a flaw disclose ds more than a decade ago. but the company behind those machines is defending their product saying quote the security protections on the m 650 are strong enough to make it extraordinarily difficult to hack in a real world environment. lets bring in vice presi...

Effective threat? you know, because ordinarily, when youre using these voting machines, youre under somebodys supervision, and so i dont think that attack is really going to be a reliable one that would be used, but thats not to say that our federal government really needs to test each component of the system to make sure that its as resilient as possible. and thats through a technique called penetration testing or ethical hacking, where the government, whether its state or federal, actually tri...

Who was in charge of a section of it. he had kids try to hack into mock election websites. listen to what he told me about it. >> the first kid got in, it was an 11-year-old girl. she got in and took over the kind of mock florida website in under ten minutes and was able to change election results. >> so those were mock websites. are our election systems really this vulnerable, do you think? >> well, that was just a mock website, so thats just a sample website set up as for a challenge. i actual...

I would like to see putin hacking with pencils. >> our election process is very decentralized at the local and state level. there does not indicate any evidence that a single voting machine was hacked. the institutions that were most susceptible to foreign meddling where our media, law enforcement, intelligence apparatus, and fortunately, washington has very little appetite to deal with that reality that these were the institutions that were susceptible to foreign meddling. little concerned abou...

Its gonna get ugly. trying to move these what seemed like innocuous protests or just regular -- >> trying to create a violent, ugly scene. >> trying to create a violent, ugly scene. and we saw in 2016, and you cant deny this, peter, that sort of thing helped donald trump. maybe a vote was not changed in a voting machine, but you cannot argue, it is much more difficult to argue that no votes were influenced by what the russians did. donald trump stood on that stage and waved those wikileaks aroun...

Dealing with. it is a bad place for them to be, but it is the real politics. >> no, i understand the politics completely, but what that is essentially saying is that the politics of get mig party back n in the office matters more than getting back into office matters more than the sovereignty of the nation, and maybe it is not a bomb planted in the country by a foreign country, but it is a hack in an attempt to change our elections and maybe they did not change the vote in the voting machine, bu...