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The CYBER CALIPHATE Has Hacked A Virginia County's Website. FBI Investigating Series Of Attacks By ISIS.
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[quote:ssle:MV8yNzcxMTI5XzQ4Mzg3NzE4X0FGNjc1NTc5] [quote:Mountain Woman:MV8yNzcxMTI5XzQ4Mzg3NTE5X0RCRTRCMTgx] [quote:ssle:MV8yNzcxMTI5XzQ4Mzg3NDYzXzc1QjJBNDZG] [quote:The_Original_Mind:MV8yNzcxMTI5XzQ4Mzg3Mjk1XzFGQzQ2MTI3] That's quite the backwoods county to get hacked. Likely some petulant kid. Unless there's an ISIS camp in the area. [/quote] Many county websites go through companies that sell custom software. I don't know if this was one of them, but let's just assume that it is. If they hack into one site using the software, they now know a) that vulnerability is exploitable and b) what software they can expect on the other side. Larger counties will have better hardware security and more monitoring, so it would be difficult to test the "hack". [/quote] I hope you work in this area, if not, you are wasting your talent. My question is if they start hacking people like us, what do they intend to do with our information? [/quote] :hf: I work in web. A lot of my job is reducing vulnerabilities to hackers, so this recent wave of hacks has been of particular interest. I've read theories that they're targeting websites using specific software(s), a few of which are commonly used by some of my clients. As far as what they'll do with our information...probably nothing. From what I've read, this is less about "gaining" something from the end-user (us) and more about instilling fear and/or controlling online behavior. [/quote]
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The Cyber Caliphate has been busy hacking government websites.
First they hacked into the Pentagon's Twitter and Youtube accounts.
When they do this, they put out false information. Like they said Obama was going to make a speech on cyber security, and he did not...it was one of their lies.
They appear to be able to hack any website they please, and this is a real threat to National Security.
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They’ve hacked into some of the best computers in the world,” the county’s information resource manager, Don Robertson, told the station. “So … while we are certainly disappointed, we are going to take every step that we can to clean it up and make sure the public is not impacted by it.” He added that the website, which he said is run by a third party, has been targeted by hackers in the past.
The hack is reminiscent of this week’s defacement of the U.S. Central Command’s Twitter and Youtube accounts. A group calling themselves the “Cyber Caliphate” posted “I love ISIS” banners on the accounts and sent out false tweets just as President Obama was giving a speech on cyber security on Monday
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