well, rodney joffe and michael leiter, thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: next, two more political stories. first, how democrats are trying to convert women's issues into votes in the battleground state of new hampshire. special correspondent anna sale of wnyc radio traveled to the granite state recently. her story is part of our new collaboration with public media partners across the country. we're bringing you reports from areas that will likely dictate the outcome of the election in a series we call battleground dispatches. >> reporter: in this election, women are a key voting bloc for both white house candidates. but in the battleground state of new hampshire, closely-contested races down the ballot are about much more than the female vote. they're also about the candidates-- both democrats running for congress here are women. so is the democratic gubernatorial candidate, maggie hassan-- the only woman running for governor in the country. if all three win their races, new hampshire will make history. elizabeth ossoff studies political psychology at saint anselm college. >> it d

for more, i'm joined by michael leiter, director of the national counter terrorism center from 2008 to 2011. and rodney joffe, senior vice president at neustar, a cyber security provider for private and government clients. in 2009, he designed a scenario for a government exercise in how to defend against cyber-attacks. welcome to you both to this important topic. michael leiter, begin by describing what these hackers did that could temporarily disrupt these web sites. >> in this case, what they did was a disruptedenial of service attack and in layman's terms all that means is taking computers away from those banks and then flooding effectively the web sites of those banks so normal customers in the bank can't actually communicate, transfer funds and the like. the. >> warner: is there something that makes banks particularly vulnerable to cyber hacking? >> banks tend to be one of those industries that is prepared better than any other industry in the united states but we see here that they are still susceptible. and i think it's two things. one, they represent american power in the same