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
Trading day. Julie hyman has the latest. We are still in the green. We are rising to the highs of the session right now. In the u. S. , we have made up the losses of the last couple days but in the u. K. , the ftse 100 closing up by three and a half percent today. The u. S. Trading at highs, the nasdaq has been a consistently to vote. One in two thirds of 1 . We are looking at a broad average of stock here in the u. S. We have a twoday gain of 3. 2 . We did see stocks pullback by the neighborhood of 5 over the prior two sessions so we havent yet made up the losses that it is a significant rebound. Bluecollar reported the worst of the brexit induced selling in the United States is behind us. So what is driving the buying today . Transportation stocks, weve got a continued rebound up more than 2 as we had concerns previously about the effect of the u. K. Vote would have on global travel, on currencies. Now those concerns alleviating for the moment. Delta and jetblue all trading higher. W
On the next washington journal a look at the president s strategy for combatting isis. Well talk with American University law professor Steven Vladeck and Charles Stimson and also Lou Anna Simon. Begins live at 7 00 a. M. On cspan. The Congressional Black Caucus opens thursday in washington. Well be live from their National Town hall examining the impact of voting, starting at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan2. This weekend on the cspan networks. Friday night in primetime on cspan. Featured speakers include ted cruz and ran paul. And saturday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, a National Town hall on the critical and historic impact of voting. And sunday evening at 8 00 p. M. On q and a, sally kwin. Friday night at cspan2 just before 9 30, daniel green and william mullen, two freedom veterans talk about their experiences in iraq, isis and the use of american force. And saturday night at 10 00 p. M. On book tvs after words, matt richtel. And sunday at 1 00 p. M. Eastern the ninth annual brooklyn b
Good afternoon. I am delighted to welcome you to the brookingss decision Brookings Institution. I am even more delighted to welcome sylvia burwell, burwell, tolvia this event at brookings. I have known sylvia a long time. Over 20 years. Sylviafirst encountered in the clinton administration, i thought of her as that friendly, competent young woman who worked for bob rubin at the National Economic council. I learned that sylvia was the go to person and a cando person. That was a useful person to have around. I also learned that she liked to keep in touch with real people out around america, not just in washington. And that she grew up in West Virginia. One day, i found myself in a hard hat, deep underground in West Virginia in a coal mine with sylvia, barbara ven and rich trumka. I was not the only one who noticed that sylvia was competent and levelheaded hearing the president notice to that, president clinton. By the end of the administration, she was the director of shes had a distingu
Independence referendum and decide whether to and their union with england. Debate was hosted bbc scotlands glen scotland g that willhe vote decide scotlands future. [applause] hello, and welcome to glasgow, as the independence Referendum Campaign enters its final stage. Alex salmond leads the Scottish National party, which has been leading this outage Independence Party for 18 years. Alistair darling is a member of the british parliament. It is the second time that that men have gone head to head, and they do so before the first ballots go out. It is the eve of the poll. In the next 90 minutes, our guests will face questions from members of our audience, from me, and from one another. I will explain more about the format in a moment. First, an opportunity for both men to make Opening Statements. Alex salmond won the coin toss, so you have two minutes. Thank you. This is an extraordinary time for us all. The eyes of the world are indeed focused on scotland. Twice before in recent histo