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ESTERO Crews on scene of 2.5-acre brush fire near Alico and Eagle Village Drive San Carlos Park Fire District is on the scene fighting a 2.5-acre brushfire near Alico and Eagle Village Drive.
FORT MYERS Jake’s story: A mother’s mission to share her son’s story and help other young people One Fort Myers mom is turning her pain into purpose after her son, who she refers to as her “heavenly Angel,” took his own life.
LEHIGH ACRES Owner bars public from Barefoot Lake, LCSO installs Watch Tower Every weekend, roughly 200 people go to Barefoot Lake in Lehigh Acres to relax, fish, swim and have a good time.
CAPE CORAL Concern over water shortage in Cape Coral Concern is flowing through Cape Coral as neighbors are seeing their canal levels low and their wells run dry.
FORT MYERS FSW softball swinging for success in the postseason Now their focus shifts to states which means the newbies are looking to the experienced sophomores for advice.
BONITA SPRINGS Young SWFL tennis player competing with professionals You may not know her name now, but you might want remember it because 16-year-old Cookie Jarvis-Tredgett is already competing with professionals.
NORTH NAPLES ‘It’s all about connection,’ Statement Peace makes jewelry with sustainability in mind The brand Statement Peace, once started inside founder Jessica Lee’s home, is now in 2,700 stores across the country
Pine Manor 2 arrested for firing gun at birthday party in Pine Manor A party ended with two people behind bars.
FORT MYERS Shooting investigation on busy Fort Myers street Police are conducting a shooting investigation that involves a traffic crash near Michigan Avenue and Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard.
FGCU New FGCU athletic director Colin Hargis ready to build on department’s success New FGCU athletic director Colin Hargis talks about the department’s future amid the age of NIL and the transfer portal.
FORT MYERS More middle-aged women being treated for acne You probably thought you broke up with it after high school, but acne is rearing it’s ugly blackheads in adult women.
Lee County student ran up and hit teacher in head, report shows The report says a 13-year-old student ran up and smacked a teacher in the head because multiple classmates offered him money to do so.
NAPLES Collier Planning Commission continues discussion for apartments near Fiddler’s Creek The developer of Fiddler’s Creek wants to build hundreds of luxury apartments on a slice of a 600 acre-plus property known as section 29.
CAPE CORAL Fatigue sets in for third day of FEMA hearings Flying several hours to come to a FEMA code compliance hearing in Cape Coral is the reality for John Gasparini from Maryland.
Prescription drug shortages lead to higher prices There are currently more than 250 medications on the nation’s drug shortage list, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. The organization says 2023 marked the worst year for shortages in about a decade.
CBS News Computer systems around the world are vulnerable to cyberattacks. This includes voting machines, email networks, social media, and critical infrastructure that cities rely on to provide basic services. Yet none of these cyber-threats is as dangerous to the electoral process as the cumulative fear and uncertainty that hacking could change the outcome of elections. For the CBS News series Campaign 2018: Election Hacking we spoke with more than two dozen experts, including current and former hackers, election security experts, former law enforcement agents, state election officials, former White House cyber-defense experts, and executives at the world’s largest tech firms. ELECTION RESULTS: Campaign Central has the results from all SWFL and state races Are they worried? Yes. They’re paid to worry. But they’re also confident that come Tuesday, Election Day, their vote will be counted. There is one threat that each expert worries about more than any specific vulnerability: The fear that hacking will undermine citizens’ faith and confidence in election results. Whichever party wins control of Congress, imagine the consequences if half the country believes it was rigged? On Monday, Department of Homeland Christopher Under Secretary Scott Krebs told “CBS This Morning,” “We haven’t seen certainly any compromises or any sort of access to election equipment across the united states at this point But our planning factor is looking back at 2016 see what the Russians conducted in terms of spearfishing campaigns And working to make sure those kinds of events don’t happen again.” Every electronic voting machine is, essentially, a computer. All computers can be hacked, and the risks are abundant. The spectrum of hackers capable of attacking voting machines and voting systems is diverse, ranging from nation-states to hacktivist groups. More worrying, these voting computers can be connected to voter registration databases, exposing critical data to manipulation. But Cris Thomas, a security researcher for IBM Security, is confident that his vote and the majority of Americans’ votes will be counted accurately. Most states and electoral districts still use distinct voting processes and a diverse array of systems. That very diversity, says Thomas, strengthens the outcome of the overall vote. “The resiliency of the electoral process will help ensure that citizens will have their votes counted and the right backups are in place to ensure it,” Thomas says. Theresa Payton, former White House chief information officer, agrees that voting systems are vulnerable but not defenseless. “I have a high level of confidence that my vote will be accurately counted,” says Payton. “The Board of Elections in each State have worked hard to assess their local processes, train their voting poll officials … to better understand the threats targeting the voting process. Political campaigns are ripe for hacking because they have an abundance of sensitive data, and are often underfunded with little budget for proper cyber-defense. “What [Russian hackers] did in 2016 wasn’t really all that sophisticated,” says former hacker turned cybersecurity expert Kevin Mitnick. In 2016 a number of Clinton campaign staffers, including chairman John Podesta, fell for phishing emails sent by Russian hackers. Campaigns are still vulnerable to similar attacks, but technology firms like Google and Microsoft are actively collaborating with campaigns to increase security on email accounts and cloud data. “A majority of what Google does to protect you is happening behind the scenes. A password manager, two-factor authentication definitely help, but even if you don’t, we’re able to prevent suspicious activity more than 99% of the time,” says Google’s Mark Risher. Social media influence campaigns — the dissemination of online propaganda designed to sway voter opinion — are perhaps the most concerning “cognitive hacks” targeting elections because there’s no clear solution to preventing them. Most large social platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and Google, have detected influence campaign content ahead of the 2018 midterms. The companies have been making efforts to crack down on such content, but they’re playing catch-up as bad actors continue to test the limits. Leo Taddeo, a former FBI cyber specialist, is concerned that misinformation and the fear of hacking could prevent voters from going to the polls in the first place. “I’m confident my vote will be counted accurately,” Taddeo says. “It would be very hard for a malicious attack to impact the voting infrastructure. I am more concerned with attempts to keep people from the polls through misinformation. For example, a ‘fake news’ report about the polls closing early.” It is possible that on Election Day there could be voting process irregularities. But regardless of what actually happens, we’re likely to see a stream of stories about hacked machines, database manipulation, and social media posts from trolls — and that could be the greatest threat. The endgame of election hacking, says Payton, is to undermine our faith and confidence in the electoral process. “Everyone should get out and vote and if you see something that seems suspect to you during the process, vote and report the issue. But if you don’t vote, the bad guys win.”