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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 we're 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 don't live in this world and know it that well, but you seem to imply in your article that there is a security weakness in some software that equifax uses t...

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 night's 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. joingsz is jenny jar democrat, 's an american hero. thanks for being here. >> thank you, rachel. it's...

Security weakness, we have no idea. dallas pd and the fbi are investigating. joining us is xeni jardin, she's an american hero. thanks for being here. >> thank you, rachel. it's you who's the hero. >> well, let's just end here. seems like we've 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. hacking school. back in the '80s and early '90s, captain crunch was taking the whistles out of c...

Traditionally think of hacking, it was remotely done, in fact, they're not operated by a computer system at all. they're 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. they're not discussing the details of how the 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 night's incident very seriously. as for who m...

That tonight. a german hacker said he developed the ability to hijack a plane in flight with a cell phone. it's 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 suggests. >> reporter: he is a pilot and security consultant says he tried to warn the aviation community...