Mock the vote: From the ONC breach to Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server to fears of hacked voting booths, cybersecurity played a surprisingly central role in the bizarre 2016 presidential campaign. On a less serious note, some of the electlon-themed cyber schemes that security experts uncovered were downright absurd. One spam campaign blasted out emails falsely promising a video of Clinton secretly exchanging money with ISIS leadership. Of course, the attached "video file" was actually malware. Researchers also discovered a ransomware program under development that was named and themed after Donald Trump. Oh, and for those who thought Clinton vs. Trump was a sideshow, just imagine how crazy things may have gotten if anti-virus maven John McAfee had won the Libertarian nomination over Gary Johnson.
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