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More precincts have wi-fi. >> what happened is as the states involved with their use of technology to facilitate voting to increase the number of voters, to improve the process of voting, they have expanded the attack surface that can now be penetrated by foreign adversaries. >> this week into classified briefings were held for elected officials from every state. the sessions were all about "increasing awareness of foreign adversary intent and capabilities against the state's election infrastructure, as well as a threat discussion of thret mitigation efforts." 32 states remotely operated cyber...

With their use of technology to facilitate voting and improve the process of voting, they have expanded the attack surface that can be penetrated by foreign adversaries. >> briefings were held for officials from every state. the office of the director of national intelligence says sessions were about "increasing awareness of foreign adversary intent and capabilities against the states election infrastructure as well as the discussion of threat mitigation efforts." dhs official tells fox news that 32 states and 31 local governments are receiving remotely operated cyber hygiene scans for vulnera...

Organizations to plan and prepare for resisting denial of service attacks, looking at ways they can reduce their attack surface and in the way they can profile to their consupers in an attack. >> i hope government and private industry can come up with an answer. ben feinstein, thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks, martin. >> thank you for joining me. i'm martin savidge on what's been a somber day for nypd and the country. they said good-bye to a fallen police officer rafael ramos. our news coverage continues now with poppy harlow. hi, everyone. thanks for joining me. i'm poppy harlo...

Especially one with sony. their attack surface is so huge because they have so many systems to attack out on the internet. so it is really hard to defend against these attacks. until the security industry matures and comes up with better technologies for come pans few use, i think this is going to happen again and again. >> kevin, danny zucker, executive producer, of modern family. here's what he tweeted to night. america will never give in to the demand of terrorists. unless they don't look our movies in which case we will fold like a beach chair. what message do you think this send to hacker...

>> right. so i demonstrated two different attacks. one was a walk-up attack, where i would literally walk up to atm, within a couple minutes, it would spit out its entire dispenser. of course you had to be there for that to work. the other at that tack was completely remote so i could do it from a laptop in a bedroom, have it spit its entire dispenser. but i also had it harvesting people's credit cards and pin numbers which i could then retrieve remotely, as well. 100% anonymous, and by passing all auto then at this occasion. >> wow. you were doing this with the atms we see at our banks, or so...