System or do a distributed Service Attack against somebodys system and knock it offline. Think about that. If somebody went after one of the states and distributed the service against one of those databases online. It knocks it off in the middle of the election. The next thing well talk about is poison updates at the manufacturer level. I think we already covered that. Okay. Spreading malware to state election systems. Sure. A lot of these methods are interchangeable. You can use them for local pc. But it comes down to, for me, if i were the adversary coming in, i would poison the update. I would start at the manufacturer level, also gain access to the state server, i would get access to the database, infiltrate, and the right packet size, and have some type of malicious payload that could bridge that air gap and have full functionality. I would also add a ransomware feature. Its something nobody is really talking about whether its the Voter Registration data or the final tabulation, t
System or do a distributed Service Attack against somebodys system and knock it offline. Think about that. If somebody went after one of the states and distributed the service against one of those databases online. It knocks it off in the middle of the election. The next thing well talk about is poison updates at the manufacturer level. I think we already covered that. Okay. Spreading malware to state election systems. Sure. A lot of these methods are interchangeable. You can use them for local pc. But it comes down to, for me, if i were the adversary coming in, i would poison the update. I would start at the manufacturer level, also gain access to the state server, i would get access to the database, infiltrate, and the right packet size, and have some type of malicious payload that could bridge that air gap and have full functionality. I would also add a ransomware feature. Its something nobody is really talking about whether its the Voter Registration data or the final tabulation, t
61 in livermore. Finally from our east bay hills camera, the air quality will come down again today. Spare the air alert for the diablo range. Temperatures climbing through the 90s today inland. Cool at the coast. 70s around the bay. Well let you know what the week ahead looks like in just a few minutes. A woman remains in Critical Condition this morning after a 100 pound tree limb fell on her in san francisco. She suffered a serious head wound if skieny 7 hd was at the scene shortly after it fell on her yesterday afternoon. As a city worker cut the branch hit her on the head. She was sitting on the bench watching her two children on the playgrou playground. They were uninjured. She was bleeding from a head wound according to the fire department. A neighbor said she is horrified but not surprised. I think it it is always a matter of time and when. It just takes a windy day for a branch to come loose. Just before the branch was cut up, we noticed they were taking measurements of the lim
At this hour. City officials are now waiting to see if a curfew is necessary. Downtown charlotte cleaning up after the city was under siege by violent protesters for a second straight night. This has been a difficult couple of days for the city of charlotte. [ chanting ] reporter what started out as peaceful protests turned into chaos when night fell. Flash grenades exploding into crowds of demonstrators who clashed with police in riot gear, sending people running for safety. The mayhem stemming from the shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott on tuesday. Police say officer Brentley Vincent pulled the trigger after they saw Scott Holding a gun. Family say he wasnt armed and had a book. Abc affiliate wsoc obtained a photo of what police say is the weapon recovered at the scene. Two opposite accounts of what transpired, leading to louder calls for the lease of dash and body cam footage. We release it when we believe it is a compelling reason, but im not going to jeopardize the investigation
Now from abc 7, live breaking news. The early indications, the initial indications is this was an intentional act. Breaking news, an explosion rocks the streets of new york city, officials there on high alert as they try to determine what happened exactly. Im eric thomas, the incident happened about five hours ago in the citys chelsea neighborhood. 26 people were injured, one seriously, make that 29. Crews are looking at possible device. Live from the news room. Lisa . Reporter eric, a scary night for new yorkers as the authorities now investigate the discovery of what may be a second explosive device a few blocks away from the original explosion site. The mayor explaining tonight, new yorkers will not be intimidated. The explosion rocked the area. It shook the ground and everyone ran out of the restaurants and the street, the whole city was in the street. And we heard a loud boom, youre in the city so were used to a lot of loud noises but all of us had the feeling that something was w