the topic is cyberattacks and cybersecurity on the communicators. what proof is there any that the russians are behind the recent cyberattacks quick. >> at this point there's three kinds of proof of forensic evidence found by the commercial company. if you back into a computer something is left behind that points to the perpetrator berger like a footprint in a lead back to moscow. the second source of evidence is the intelligence agencies to be fully confident of the russian government using their own sources and technology. >> that smile he has not denied this. so that evidence is solid. >> how did he get this information? how did that happen quick. >> it is pretty straightforward. most people still suffer from the illusion that the e-mail is somehow private when it is like a postcard. so to secure the date of their own networks. as they got in to a fishing e-mail then to get control of the network over a period of time to extract the data including debt e-mail. >> joining our conversation today from reuters one. >> my and understanding by the way

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the topic is cyberattacks and cybersecurity on the communicators. what proof is there any that the russians are behind the recent cyberattacks quick. >> at this point there's three kinds of proof of forensic evidence found by the commercial company. if you back into a computer something is left behind that points to the perpetrator berger like a footprint in a lead back to moscow. the second source of evidence is the intelligence agencies to be fully confident of the russian government using their own sources and technology. >> that smile he has not denied this. so that evidence is solid. >> how did he get this information? how did that happen quick. >> it is pretty straightforward. most people still suffer from the illusion that the e-mail is somehow private when it is like a postcard. so to secure the date of their own networks. as they got in to a fishing e-mail then to get control of the network over a period of time to extract the data including debt e-mail. >> joining our conversation today from reuters one. >> my and understanding by the way

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and cyberattacks are becoming a huge problem all over the country. bigger and bigger. we have seen the government itself hacked innumerable times. we've seen the office of personnel management, over 20 million files hacked. we've seen the state department, the white house itself. we've seen large companies like target and home depot targeted, but now they seem to be going after small business folks, and we have seen in fact over 70% of the cyberattacks now are targeted at companies that have fewer than 100 employees. so it's something that small businesses really need to take seriously because it could happen to you next. >> absolutely. okay, finally, a little time left to talk about this lawsuit to try and overturn the evertime rules, which is supposed to take effect on december 1st. talk to me a little bit about why this is important from your perspective? >> well, it's important -- we're getting more complaints from small businesses all over the nation on this than anything really since obamacare that i can remember. because what it would do is it would say you're n

why it could be the beginning of a larger cyberattack. and traffic alert for people headed to san francisco this weekend. the driver on the bay bridge that's about to have a very alla lot of it's a hoax.bal warminit's a hoax. it'll get cooler. it'll get warmer. it's called weather. we need some global warming! we need leaders who get it. so that we can move away from coal and oil to clean energy. i'm tom steyer. if you want to do something about climate change, you can. please. register and vote. nextgen california action committee is responsible for the content of this advertising. >>> homeland security and the fbi is trying to find out who was behind a wide cyberattack. ama daetz has details. >> reporter: amazon, ebay, facebook, google and reddit were all slowed or brought to a stop by the attacks. the first attack came around 4:00 a.m. the ceo of u.s. dine, inc. said an incredibly sophisticated attack overwhelmed their servers. many popular websites use dine to translate their web address boos numerical codes that computers loses to co

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in the case of the cyberattack and this book's premise is the russians and chinese are already inside our electric power grid and they have the capacity of taking down one or all three of our power grids. >> rose: when you say inside, what do you mean? >> what i mean is they have been mapping our power grid through their -- through using the internet to get into -- it gets kind of wonky, charlie, but it's the skater system, the supervisory control and data acquisition. it's the system that controls the flow of electricity in this country. if you can get inside there, you can cause failure. >> rose: so, therefore, are you saying the reason -- they're inside and could cause havoc. >> right. >> rose: the reason they don't do it is they know we could do it and they are more vulnerable. >> no. >> rose: not saying that? i'm not saying that at all. in fact, i'm saying exactly the opposite of that. >> rose: we don't have the same power to get inside their system? >> we do, but what do you do if there is a cyber attack and the president is sitting there in the situation room and he's got all h

nbc's jo ling kent has targeting your home. >> reporter: a massive cyberattack infiltrating homes across america. >> it's disconcerting. it's frightening. >> reporter: the new tactic was carried out by hackers, using a virus to take control of millions of personal devices connected to the internet, like home routers, dvrs, baby monitors, and security cameras, without their owners' knowledge tens of millions of these devices sent bogus signals to dyn, a web services twitter, airbnb and spotify. that information overwhelmed the dyn system, bringing access to those sites to a virtual halt. dyn says the issue was resolved within hours, but the attack highlights a new vulnerability. >> this is a very serious virus. it's a malware virus. it's open source, so anyone can grab it and do bad with it. >> reporter: the attack raising a red flag in homes where garage doors, lights, and thermostats are all smart devices. >> you're opening yourself up to who knows what. >> reporter: dyn says no personal data was stolen and no cameras were activated but some experts fear it's only a matter of time. >> c

reports of cyberattacks causing internet outages. been talking about that during today's session. we also have gotten to read a lot of e-mails we never should have seen because of a hack. but even scarier potentially medical devices also now vulnerable. and landon dowdy looking at how health care companies are protecting themselves and patients. >> scary thing to think could someone hack your pacemaker. that is front and center for all medical devicemakers now. especially st. jude medical after a report in august from a short seller claiming that jude's cardiac devices are vulnerable to cyberattacks during a crash attack that causes the device to malfunction and drain the battery, potentially exposing patients to injury or death. st. jude fighting back with a lawsuit against muddy waters and new medical advisory board focusing on cybersecurity. but the firm's founder isn't backing down on the original claims. take a listen. >> definitely planning to fight it. it is not entirely unanticipated. it was generally before going public on a

. >>> new details into the cyberattack which blocked access to many popular websites. it's now believed the attackers gained access to millions of personal devices. a senior intelligence official tells nbc news that it appears to be a case of internet vandalism. but that no country appears to be behind it. they say the cyberattackers used dvrs and web cams to overload web traffic and that took down websites including twitter, netflix and amazon. the fbi is now investigating. >>> well today's cool and damp weather did not stop people from flocking to south philadelphia to help raise money and awareness for autism. pennsylvania governor tom wolfe and the filly fanatics cheered people on. it raises money for the autism community to improve the lives of people affected by autism. >>> remembering a fallen philadelphia firefighter gets a unique tribute. what artists are telling nbc 10. >>> demanding transparency, why pennsylvania republicans want more eyes watching the polls on election day. >>> crews are trying to clean up a gasoline spill in central pennsylvania. after a s

nbc's jolene kent has information op how we can protect ourselves. >> cyberattacks a home than ever. hackers launching a sophisticated, powerful new attack that slowed the internet to a crawl. it was aimed at a new hampshire company that routes internet traffic for big companies like netflix and amazon. >> what was it like when the attack came down? >> it was wild. the whole entire company stopping everything they were doing. >> the attack used new malware, a kind of software used to disable or infect computer systems. connected to the internet. like home routers, baby monitors and cameras, without their owners' knowledge. >> basically what we discovered was it was part of a bot net attack. which basically goes into folks' homes and takes over the internet of things devices and literally turns them into attack vectors. >> the smart devices work together to overwhelm dyn's system with jun with distributed denial of service. >> it was unprecedented. >> the result, customers throughout the u.s. were unable to access dyn's popular clients like spotify, twitter, airbnb and etsy. >> the at

a granite state company is investigating after a series of major cyberattacks paralyzed parts of the country. manchester based dyn got hit multiple times today, interrupting their systems and their customers, which include twitter and netflix. dyn sent out an alert saying someone had sent a distributed denial of service attack on their infrastructure. this type of cyberattack sends large volumes of traffic to specific servers to shut them down. >> we recommend that folks take a look, the types of devices they have in their home, whether they are internet connected, web cameras, dvr's, or the home wireless router, to see if they are vulnerable. shelley: again dyn has not , spoken to us since the attacks . however, the white house is calling the disruption malicious. on to commitment 2016 coverage. keeping their focus on key battleground states. and for the third time in three months, donald trump's running mate, governor mike pence, rallied for votes in new hampshire. wmur's cherise leclerc has more on pence's visit. cherise: the trump-pence ticket is looking to gain momentum in new h

laura: the presidential election could potentially be influenced by russian cyberattacks. america. -- concerns stretch far beyond america and put down your cell phone and appreciate a real map. laura: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also around the globe. we were expecting a raucous night, but the second presidential debate was both feisty and intense. even before it started, donald was bringing up accusations of sexual assault against bill clinton and when asked about the tape that showed mr. trump using lewd language towards women come he said it was just locker room talk. the fallout continues. speaker of the house paul ryan says he will not defend donald trump, nor campaign with him. jon sopel starts our coverage. jon: they walked out smiling, but as they drew closer, the awkwardness and tension were evident. no handshakes, just a wary stare. and very quickly it was on to the now infamous comments from trump a decade ago about molesting women. mr. trump: this was locker room talk. i'm not proud of it. i apologize to my family. i apologize to

has acknowledged that election officials in 21 states are requesting help blocking cyberattac cyberattacks. the increased concerns comes just days after abc news reported hackers believed to be tied to russia targeted voter registration computers in at least 20 states. >> if we retaliate against ruche yeah, with a cyberattack of some sort, we could get into cyberwar. >> potentially the presidential election could be manipulated by outside -- an outside threat. i never thought i would live to see that day. >> abc news has learned that in four cases, hackers got inside those voter registration databases. and likely copied information about thousands of voters. >>> stunning results of an election in colombia. voters rejected a deal to end the country's 52-year civil war. the result is a major setback for president juan manuel santos. he vowed to keep a cease-fire in place and forge ahead with the war. many of those who voted against the deal with the rebels said it was too lenient. >>> pope francis says transgender people should be treated with respect. on the plane back to rome from his trip

these attacks are please often used in advance of a larger cyberattack.. there thunderstorm is a cyber chess board. what's interesting is this widespread denial of service assault would allow the hackers create a fog of war while they sneak into the back door. >> reporter: new world hackers claimed the responsibility saying they wanted to highlight vulnerabilities. they said we did this please only to test power. the claim has not been verified and the group has falsely taken credit before. this comes amid the wiki leaks e-mail concerns. fingerprint, photographs and dna kits were all on hand in the north bay today at a child safety event hosted by the awareness groups created by vallejo resident, missy sanchez. she was kidnapped when she was 8 years old but was able to escape. >> hopefully, you know, everybody comings away from this with more knowledge and a better understanding of what they can do, the kinds of decisions they can make to avoid becoming a victim. he says they help parents start a conversation with the kids. >> california added 30,000 jobs

the search for answers after a series of high-impact cyberattacks. todd: the local target and the new type of attack hackers unleashed. also, a massive fire out west. where it's burning and why it's taking time to put out the flames. antoinette: a cloud of toxic released and how the situation unfolded in one midwestern town. kelly: the downpours of last night have come to an end. i'm tracking more showers for your saturday. andrew crossley: new hampshire has a senator as hard as we do. gerardine ferlins: kelly ayotte believes in the potential of new hampshire, and wants to unleash that potential. ron goguen: she's out there fighting for good-paying jobs. andrew crossley: kelly introduced bipartisan training initiatives to make sure we have the skills for the 21st century. sue winter: she's fought against workplace discrimination - and for equal pay. claude poisson: she's working for the little guy - fighting for good new hampshire jobs so our kids can raise their families here. sue martin: kelly is a powerful voice for new hampshire's working familie

>>> cyberattack. hundreds of popular websites like twitter, spotify and netflix left in the dark. outages hitting across the country. how common household items you may have in your home were used >>> and sidelined, giants placekicker josh brown facing more fallout over the documents showing he repeatedly abused his wife. the nfl now re-evaluating his case. the law enforcement office taking them to task. >> their mistake was trying to lay this off on the sheriff's office. >> will brown ever play as a giant again? >>> and good saturday morning, everyone. it is great to have tom llamas beside me, so, tom, you've been on the campaign trail for the last year and a half and give you a day off there and ask you to come in studio. how about that? >> i jumped right off the campaign plane and ended right here. >> glad to have you here. >> happy to go here. >>> it is a morning showing donald trump's path to the white house is getting tougher and tougher for donald trump losing his grip on some traditionally red states and now trump who usually brags about big wins seeming to acknowledge he

why it could be just the beginning of a larger cyberattack. and people headed to san francisco this weekend. drive on the bay bridge is about to happen. a very big change. honey bunches of oats with real strawberries. it's all of this, this, and this. and especially that. waaat? yep, add this and you've got strawesomeberry. "oohh!" honey bunches of oats with real strawberries. this. is. everything. >> homeland security and fbi is trying to find out who was behind a wide cyberattack. ama daetz has details. >> reporter: amazon, ebay, facebook, google and reddit were all slowed or brought to a stop by the attacks. first attack came around 4 :00 a.m. the ceo of u.s. dine inc said an incredibly sophisticated attack overwhelmed their servers. they translated web adegrees dress boos numerical codes that computers look to communicate. no codes meant no websites. >> www..twitter.com have no meaning because they can't go to an address. it's off. >> it was mostly affecting the east coast. a second attack hit dine at 9:00 a.m. that hit the west coast hard

trish: a denial of service cyberattack taking down several websites today, including twitter and amazon you tried to load tweets on twitter, you couldn't get them. amazon's website was under attack and my next guest says these attacks have all the hallmarks of a nation state attack. we've got the latest. what's happening here? this is my new alert system for whenever anything happens in the market. but thinkorswim already lets you create custom alerts for all the things that are important to you. i guess we don't need the kid anymore. custom alerts on thinkorswim. only at td ameritrade. . trish: this a bizarre story. a massive cyberattack today taking down a whole bunch of websites, including twitter, amazon and netflix. if you tried to log onto these, there was a denial of service. you just couldn't get on. my next guest says it looks like this was an attack by a nation-state. joining me tom koehlerman. what makes you think that this was a state actor? >> most denial of service attacks are not this widespread, nor do they involve this much data. like someone set a digital forest fire a

scott, while the russians deny cyberattack. >> jeff pegues, jeff, thank you. cbs "overnight news" will be right back. how to hit a baseball. him how to hit a receiver. you even taught him how to hit the open man. but how much time have you spent teaching him... people with bipolar disorder suffer ten years on average without diagnosis. that's ten years of needless suffering. learn how easily this can these men are kurdish fighters, who have joined with the iraqi army and local militiamen to push isis out of mosul. a combined force thought to be more than 20,000 strong. these kurdish fighters are trying to move in that direction and retake the main road to mosul. but isis has lit fires in villages there and there. to try to shield themselves from air strikes. it didn't work. isis today and the extremists lost more territory and more fighters. but the battle so far is only on the outskirts of mosul, a handful of farming villages, long emptied of civilians, now an apocalyptic landscape. isis fought back with suicide bombers. one car laden with explosives drove cl

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is recalling millions of is recalling millions of products sold in the u-s following the massive cyberattack that blocked access to certain websites last week. the company the company says millions of web-connected cameras and connected cameras and digital compromised because customers failed to change their default change their default passwords. the hack has heightened long-standing fears among security experts that the rising number of interconnected home gadgets, appliances and even vehicles represents a vehicles represents a cybersecurity represents a cybersecurity nightmare. experts say the added convenience of being able to control home electronics via the web also leaves them more vulnerable to malicious vulnerable to malicious intruders. the company says the majority of products being recalled are more local news now.. astronaut and wisconsin native jeff williams wants to take questions from you..astro jeff will be doing a facebook live starting at 10:30 this morning to talk about photography and his trip to the international space station. to join.. search "nasa astronaut jeff will

voter registration system is connected to the internet and so that does expose us to a potential cyberattack husted is taking measures to block any hacking.he says the protected.sot husted: i think there is a potential for disruption but not a potential for chaos because of the back up systems we have in place, we are doing all we can but as i noted you can never eliminate the threat in the last presidential election, many states saw long lines and delays of hours at polling places.some fear if hackers get into the voter rolls this time, they could make the problems even worse, by changing names, addresses and voters' private information. sot husted: its a terrifying thought that our system could be hacked, the greatest system in the world, could be hacked. new york voter muffie potter aston waited hours to vote in 2012, and says there was more confusion in the voter registration rolls when she showed up in april at her polling place at hunter college in manhattan, for the presidential primary.she hopes officials do have the ability to safeguard the election system by preventing any hack, sa

the internet firm dyn says it was hit by a cyberattack.n now is, was it the work of another country? the worries tonight from top officials are that this is just the beginning. katherine harris is here. >> reporter: experts said the attack came in two waves with hackers targeting the internet's critical infrastructure which is like a

tonight, the f-b-i is investigating a massive cyberattack that took down popular sites like twitter, netflix, and amazon for some people today. the attack struck a key internet with junk data traffic. that kept people from using the sites properly. it mainly affected people on the east and west coasts, but some people in the midwest also had trouble accessing the sites. the white house is calling the activity malicious. and a hacker group spread across china and russia has claimed responsibility. some classrooms in cedar rapids are changing their look and feel. they'll soon have couches and coffee tables to offer studens first here's a look at the most viewed stories today on kcrg dot-com. stay with your 24 hour a batch of scattered high clouds our temperatures warmer, falling to around 40. the weekend looks absolutely fantastic with plentiful sunshine and highs in the 60s. sunday should be a saturday. we should have an easy time of it until tuesday, when showers start to move back into the area. showers and a few storms are likely on wednesday. temperatures should stay fairly close

. >> to recuse russia to interfere with the election to cyberattacks. the u.s.nment would like the encryption key to see data in my phone was to the u.s. response me to foreign countries hacking our information? should u.s. government have the ability to hack the data of the citizen quick. >> that is a great question we have to take cyber security threats seriously and russia is doing we don't have to guess because the intelligence is a cyberattacks. to fight back with those tools that we have. and to protect ourselves with the privacy. only under the worst of the circumstances and should that be trampled. >> you have specific ideas wish did beat? >> you have to have a proportional response to send a message back to russia and this is not okay particularly it seems that there is direct evidence of a presidential election. jones: their regional host of the high crimes task force we are fully aware of the threats it is a growing trend as been identified as the number one emerging global threat of packing and things like that. but once we draw a line in the same an

government that russia is behind cyberattacks on state voting systems. jeff pegues takes us inside arizona's effort to counter the threat. >> reporter: the hacking attempt on arizona's voter database started in rural gila county when an elections worker opened an e-mail attachment. >> very scary staff. >> very scary stuff. >> reporter: michelle reagan, arizona's secretary of state, >> very scary stuff. >> reporter: michelle reagan, arizona's secretary o>> very sc. >> reporter: michelle reagan, arizona's secretary of state, says it was malware meant to attack these servers holding the voter information of 4 million vernment is to blame.sian ted what was your initial reaction? >> shock. and dismay, obviously, because foreign invaders coming in and trying to mess with our confidence in our election system. >> reporter: arizona, illinois, florida, and nearly two dozen other states have seen similar scanning, probing, or breaches of their election systems. >> the russians have a different doctrine than what we do. >> reporter: for over a decade, jim lewis has

but increasingly, we are seeing cyberattacks coming from states, organs of states.he most recent and troubling of these has been russia. there's no doubt now that russia has used cyberattacks against all kinds of organizations in our country, and i am deeply concerned about this. i know donald very praiseworthy of vladimir putin, but putin is playing a tough, long game here. and one of the things he's done is to let loose cyberattackers to hack into government files, to hack into personal files, hack into the democratic national committee, and we recently have learned that, you know, that this is one of their preferred methods of trying to wreak havoc and collect information. we need to make it very clear whether it's russia, china, iran or anybody else. the united states has much s. >> getting tougher and of it irto defeat them, they're in more and more places. more and more states. moderator: mr. trump. trump: as far as japan is concerned all of our allies. but we are losing billions and billions of dollars. we can no be the policeman of the world. we can not prot

the internet firm dyn says it was hit by a cyberattack. the question now is, was it the work of another country? the worries tonight from top officials are that this is just the beginning. katherine harris is here. >> reporter: experts said the attack came in two waves with hackers targeting the internet's critical infrastructure which is like a giant switchboard connecting and directing web traffic. this is called a distributed denial of service attack. it's often used to probe a network in advance of a larger cyber event. >> this is the first move on a chess board. whether it's a cyber crime chess board or cyber espionage is unbeknownst to me. what's interesting is that this denial of service attack taking down these websites would allow the hackers to create a fog of war while they sneak in the back doors of the networks. >> a company called dyn was affected causing outages. affecting amazon, twitter, spotify and others. this fbi web page that's available for public searches of investigative files was also knocked offline for several ho