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>> miguel almaguer, thank you. here with me in the studio is victoria defrancesco soto, a contributor and a fellow at the lbj school of the university of texas. laura flanlders, host of grit tv and caton dawson, our favorite republican, former senior adviser to governor rick perry. also with us from washington, d.c., is rafy ran, the former director of security at the israel airport authority and current president of new age security solutions and consultant to bostons lonegan airport. nice to h...

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 ...

>> mr. chairman, it just came to my attention that on cnn, cnns website that the site was hacked just last week. >> okay. >> and i will be happy to make had available to you. i dont think. >> the cnn website? >> the cnn ran a story that the healthcare.gov website was hacked last week. again, i will get this to you and would appreciate your response to that. >> that wasnt exactly precise. tell our viewers what we posted on our website. >> yeah, let moo he clear it up. at cnn money we put an artic...

Remote into the cameras from other locations so lets say im at work and i want to see whats going on at home. thats one of the main benefits of having the cameras but thats also one of the main vulnerabilities, because usually if i can from work to home, then anyone can remote from anywhere in the world to my home. >> cnnst money tech pro is here with me. listen, this is frightening. i thought, like if the camera came on, the light comes on and you know it. wait a minute, the light is on, who is...

Havent been if i could by the manufacturer. >> many of these can be done anywhere from around the world. >> reporter: i certainly dont want somebody turning on my web cam at home. what can i do to protect myself? >> change the default user name and change the default password. >> reporter: if you want to be careful always turn off remote access to your camera. >> by default, we can set them up we can remote into the cameras from other locations. say im at work and want to see what is going on at...

But i guess theres a part of me that feels like, on the one hand, i want to talk about the rape culture, but i also want to talk about all of the things that are feeding -- less the drunk girls, than the idea of young men as well, and the notion of sort of where these vulnerabilities are. theres so much more, i know, but thank you to irin and to byron. coming up, its been called unflinching, appalling, agonizing, even a master piece. its a film, "12 years of slave," and nerdland is going to go t...

Am pleased to be here. >> how do you feel about your new found notoriety? did you start with that intent in mind? >> no, maam, certainly not. my goal was to prevent headlines not to make them. i was concerned about the vulnerabilities of our memorials and monuments as a result of being under staffed and one thing led to another and before i knew it i was the head janitor down at the memorials. >> had you ever done anything like this before and did you think people would be inspired and follow yo...

Voters, we lost independent voters in 2010 in the house elections as you know. the most recent polling i saw has them shifting back to democrats. we lost seniors in 2010. theyre shifting back to democrats. why? because they know that republicans, their came plan is to undermine medicare. negotiate an end to medicare. seniors are coming back. independents are coming back. theyre coming back because they know that we offer reasonable people with common sense solutions for americas problems. >> you...

New york. wrouv rr been taking a closer look at this. how secure are these health insurance websites out there right now? >> this is something critics are going to be watching. before the exchanges went live, there was a report of a data breach with utahs data breach. that helped utah see the flaws and fix them in time. firstly, the health exchanges dont actually store sensitive information. it does collect private data, but its transferred to a data cub. a courier between the fralsh exchanges. ...