Yesterday, websites for the Ohio Department of Administrative Services, Howard County (Maryland) and the town of Brookhaven (New York) were replaced with an ISIS message. There was no apparent reason that these government divisions were targeted. Rather, this was likely a case of hackers trolling for unsecured websites. It serves as a good reminder that local governments (no matter how small) are prime targets for cyber-crime.
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