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Message Subject The CYBER CALIPHATE Has Hacked A Virginia County's Website. FBI Investigating Series Of Attacks By ISIS.
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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".
 Quoting: ssle


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?
 Quoting: Mountain Woman

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.
 Quoting: ssle


Though it's worth noting that they may sell it to people who do want to use it.
 Quoting: The_Original_Mind

Yeah, it could get pretty messy and threatening.
 
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