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Cybercrime : Piercing the darkness Website defacement is the digital version of graffiti and instead of being carried out by outgoing, rebellious teenagers it is carried out by nerdy, smart and technically capable hackers who have an intention of spreading their ideas to people or just want to have a source of creative output. There is no other way to deface a website than to intrude the network in which it resides and find the files which it is made of. Website defacements are relatively quite rare, and when it occurs, it usually has something to do with the company involved hurting the feelings of a group of people. library.thinkquest.org /04oct/00460/defacement.html   (459 words)

[No title] Website defacement is defacing of a website either by replacing the home page with a self-satisfied congratulation notice of defacement or simply by just removing or adding information to the existing homepage. Website defacement was never a big concern when the internet first started, but as the internet started to grow and security was less focused on and less secure, it started to multiple. Attacks to websites are on the increase, as mentioned before, and it is quickly becoming a new alternative hobby for a whiz-kid hacker-elite (etest associates, par 1). mason.gmu.edu /~lmarca/webdeface.doc   (1430 words)

Rootsecure.net | Sunday Defacement Contest - Full analysis of what happened A rough count shows 500 defacements to have occurred and been confirmed on the 6th of July (several hundred others were not confirmed). The Register however was not stopping its wild conspiracy theories with just one website, but decided to implicate Attrition.org (who themselves used to mirror defaced websites) among others as well, accusing them at the very lease of having prior knowledge off events "it was well-coordinated, as if planned for some time". This was after they defaced their own sites with a message [mirror] which in part read "I panicked over the Defacement Challenge scare and all I got was this lousy defacement". www.rootsecure.net /?p=reports/sunday_defacement_contest_full_analysis   (762 words)

The Digital Revolt by Will Taggart. New Media & Information Technology in the Middle East Working Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Website defacement connected with the Al-Aqsa Intifada is comparable to gang and hip-hop graffiti; they call into question the formation of relationships between art, artists, and resistance movements; and they lead us to question how we know and what we see on the web. Most of the hackers involved in defacing websites are not familiar with each other in any local way—they do not know each other in the flesh; their communication is limited and bounded by electronic communication. These defaces are then posted on one or both of these defacement "mirrors," thereby providing a space to exhibit the exploits of the defacers and their messages. nmit.georgetown.edu /papers/wtaggert.htm   (3331 words)

Print Article - Web Defacement Examined Website defacement might not get as much publicity as the other forms of attacks on the web, but that is not to say it is not as prevalent. One event in particular that did spur many website defacements was the Iraq war, specifically at the onset of the war. Website defacement is an extremely important topic that should warrant as much focus on security as any other area of information Technology. www.invision-graphics.com /article-print-109.html   (1377 words)

Local chihuahua questioned in website defacement In an off the record comment one detective involved in the case indicated that their focus on Gorby was based on the assumption that the entire episode was a publicity stunt staged by Gorby. When reached for comment Gorby denied any personal involvement in the incident and indicated her belief that the entire episode was the work of a overzealous fan. One possible motive for the defacement could be to publicize Gorby's recent appearance at Radio City with Dave Matthews. www.jsu.edu /depart/psychology/sebac/Gorby/Defacement.html   (291 words)

Website defacement contest - mischief-making little worse than normal - Security Strategy - Breaking Business and ... Unknown attackers downed the largest recorder of website defacements on Sunday, the same day that vandals had been thought to be planning an online graffiti contest. While some 500 internet addresses corresponding to defaced websites were submitted to Zone-H.org, the intermittent accessibility of the site meant that hundreds, if not thousands, more may have not been recorded. In fake defacements of six websites, titled "I panicked over the Defacement Challenge scare and all I got was this lousy defacement", the experts stressed that attacks happen all the time. www.silicon.com /software/security/0,39024655,10005009,00.htm   (674 words)

'Burnt out' Alldas pulls the plug - Webact!ve   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Website defacement mirror Alldas.de has today closed its doors and hammered another nail in the coffin of the hacker underground. The high-profile defacement site appears to be a victim of its own success, swamped by the rising tide of defacement attacks. Website defacements today stretch into the hundreds, when only two years ago they barely reached double figures a day. www.webactivemagazine.co.uk /vnunet/news/2117566/burnt-alldas-pulls-plug   (479 words)

Web vandals' contest leaves faint trace | CNET News.com Unknown attackers take down the largest recorder of Web site defacements on the same day that vandals had been thought to be planning an online graffiti contest. While some 500 Internet addresses corresponding to defaced Web sites were submitted to Zone-H.org, the intermittent accessibility of the site meant that hundreds, if not thousands, more may have not been recorded. Although chaos apparently stymied defacers' attempt at anarchy, many security researchers criticized the amount of attention the event received in the first place. news.com.com /2100-1002_3-1023295.html?tag=fd_top   (498 words)

etest associates - Website Defacement and Security Testing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) This includes when a site was defaced, who did it and even images of the attacked site in its defaced state as a historical record. Each defacement record includes the hackers' own secret 'tagger' names or aliases with statistics on who is responsible for the greatest percentage of defacements. This wouldn't carry too great a risk if their supplier had tested the website for risks in these areas, but often it is based on guesswork, assumptions or testing carried out by personnel insufficiently qualified in these aspects of software testing. www.etest-associates.com /pressroom/pr_website_defacement_artcl.htm   (1020 words)

Website defacement contest - mischief-making little worse than normal - Security Strategy - Breaking Business and ... Unknown attackers downed the largest recorder of website defacements on Sunday, the same day that vandals had been thought to be planning an online graffiti contest. While some 500 internet addresses corresponding to defaced websites were submitted to Zone-H.org, the intermittent accessibility of the site meant that hundreds, if not thousands, more may have not been recorded. In fake defacements of six websites, titled "I panicked over the Defacement Challenge scare and all I got was this lousy defacement", the experts stressed that attacks happen all the time. software.silicon.com /security/0,39024655,10005009,00.htm   (785 words)

Hackers hit defacement mirror website The security community got a shock this morning when it emerged that the Alldas.de website defacement mirror was itself defaced last night. Nowadays many companies depend on their digital safety and there really are other ways than defacing to point out that security can be broken," the hacker said. According to Alldas the hacker managed to fool the scripts which are usually used to accept new defacements. www.vnunet.com /articles/print/2115479   (272 words)

BCS E-commerce & E-business Security Review 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Unfortunately, due to the public tiring of hacking-hype, website defacement is successfully avoiding the spotlight. Website defacement is embarrassing, especially when the mass media gets involved, as it so often has. Websites are set to become even more dynamic, as a result of the applications that enable them. www.bcs.org /ereview/2001/html/p030.htm   (2013 words)

Hackers deface 45 Malaysian local websites - Cyber Tech Help Support Forums Local websites were defaced en masse in two major attacks last year. In August, about 100 websites were attacked in an act of mass defacement perpetrated by three foreign hacker groups. Website defacement attempts can be stopped by implementing sound computer security practices, local experts say. www.cybertechhelp.com /forums/showthread.php?t=73617   (274 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) It is suspected that since the competition is based on speed and volume that the defacers will probably target personal home pages, small business sites, and sites that do not possess the robustness of major commerce,.mil, or.gov sites. Supposedly, websites defaced during this contest will be posted to the Website Defacement Archives at www.zone-h.org. During the last week there has been a decrease in the number of reported website defacements and an increase in scanning/probing activity for web related services. attrition.org /security/rant/z/dc-fedcirc-070103.txt   (504 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The Defacement Alert Project monitors these websites and alerts appropriate administrative individuals as soon as possible to ensure damage is contained and remedied quickly and efficiently. Website defacement hackers often post the systems which they have attacked on public archive websites to 'brag' and gain _respect_ in the hacking/hacker community. These websites often record the activity as 'snapshots' of history and rank individual hackers by collected averages and statistics. www.fourmilab.ch /documents/security/incidents/ddos_2004-01/defacement.txt   (469 words)

siliconindia--Business and Technology portal for the global Indian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) NEW DELHI: About 70 instances of Indian website defacement were reported in popular domains including.com and.org in April compared to 67 in March, according to data compiled by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-in). A total of 18 defacement cases were witnessed in ‘.co.in’, ‘gov.in’ and ‘.org’domain during the period, while the rest were reported in ‘.net’, ‘.ac.in’, ‘.biz’ and ‘.info’ websites. The number of Indian website defacement recorded in April and March this year is significantly lower compared to the first two months of the year. www.siliconindia.com /shownewsdata.asp?newsno=28118&newscat=Technology   (250 words)

ABC Radio National: The Buzz 20 August  2001  - Protecting Business IT Systems I might get in myself actually and hack a website and just put on it 'hacked by Steve Orlowski.' Defacement can go beyond graffiti or just mischievous activity, it could be used to change information on a website which could have consequences for the business itself. For example, a competitor might get into a website and change the price that a company is offering its goods at, or change say a bank's interest rate that it's offering. If you were just to put in a simple routine that did a check on the website itself every half hour or so, it would pick up when it had been changed. www.abc.net.au /rn/science/buzz/stories/s350371.htm   (700 words)

Rootsecure.net | Sunday Defacement Contest It is worth pointing out the extreme difficulty any group would experience in actually setting up a coordinated website defacement contest on their own, however with the help of the media at large publicising details of the event, the task suddenly becomes a whole lot easier. Eleonora[67] went on to mention that the challenge, was originally intended only for the "underground", and had been under significant pressure to be called it off due the publicity given to it by the media at large. The defacers are always humiliated but the underground is strong, I want to show everybody the real power of theses guys. www.rootsecure.net /?p=reports/sunday_defacement_contest   (1040 words)

Hackers organize vandalism contest | CNET News.com The winner of the contest will be the group that defaces 6,000 servers in the shortest amount of time. Because the contest doesn't differentiate between defacements on the same server, so-called mass defacements will be far more likely, he said. Preatoni said his site will record the defacements just as it always does, adding that he doesn't believe that shuttering the system during the contest will discourage the vandals. news.com.com /2100-1002_3-1023172.html   (829 words)

RavenPHPScripts Repeated website defacement :( help! The defacment page is different each time so I don't know if it is lots of people and I have some giant security flaw I am over looking, or the same one useing different sigs to make it look like different people. I run a website for fun but it is starting to not be fun anymore with haveing to redo it almost every week. Website engines core code is © copyright by PHP-Nuke but has been heavily patched and modified by myself and others. ravenphpscripts.com /postp8040.html   (616 words)

Study claims Linux most hacked but ignores malware - Breaking - theage.com.au In what appears to be an econometric approach to the analysis of server compromises and website defacement, a London-based group is claiming that Linux is the most breached online server and the BSDs and Mac OSX the safest. Additionally, mass website defacements were counted as multiple attacks - as many as the websites involved. Asked about the reasoning behind its decision to treat mass website defacements as multiple attacks, a spokesperson said: "Mass website attacks are counted as multiple attacks because although there is a single action on the part of the attacker, economic damage is always done to multiple victims. www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/03/01/1077989482304.html   (964 words)

The Smoking Gun: Archive Below you'll find a screen grab of the hacked Madonna site's front page, which announced, "This is what the fuck I think I'm doing." That is an apparent response to Madonna's move last week to seed peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa with files that appeared to be cuts from her new album. According to the replacement page, the madonna.com defacement was supposedly "brought to you by the editors of Phrack," an online hacker magazine whose web site notes that it does not "advocate, condone nor participate in any sort of illicit behavior. In addition, the defaced page included an impromptu marriage proposal to Morgan Webb, a comely 24-year-old woman who appears on "The Screen Savers," a daily technology show airing on the cable network Tech TV. www.thesmokinggun.com /archive/madonnasplash1.html   (248 words)

Zone-H.org * Digital attacks archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) defacements) contained in Zone-H were either collected online from public sources or directly notified to us. Note for administrators: the logs on port 80 (public) you might find on your server are related to our mirror robots when connecting to the reported attacked server and verifying the crime. Unlike other Mirror websites, Zone-H doesn't execute any portscan on the reported attacked servers as it might configure a crime in certain countries. www.zone-h.org /en/defacements   (169 words)

Inside hackers' kindergarten - The Community's Center for Security A rash of website defacements demonstrates that hackers can enter corporate, government and education websites at will, according to cyber-security expert Ken Low. "Website defacement is the most visible type of attack, said Mr Low, 3Com's senior manager for security in the Asia-Pacific. The process of hacking a web server to deface a page "is similar to the hacking of any network", he said. www.linuxsecurity.com /content/view/120649   (230 words)

Bobsguide News item During the six hour challenge the target for each hacker group was to deface 6000 websites. Indeed it is probable that many of the systems would have had automated defacement scripts secretly installed that would have been timed to perform the defacement and automatically register it to the mirror site Zone H.org. While as late on as Thursday, IT security organisations were recommending patching as a solution to prevent attacks, the reality is that most systems that were going to be hit would have already been compromised by then and the patching would have been too late. www.bobsguide.com /guide/news/3423.html   (295 words)

Digg - Archive of Defaced Websites Defaced by Saudi Arabian Hackers!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Zone-H.org, "the largest website defacement archive and IT security resource on the planet" has been hacked and defaced by Saudi Arabian hackers "Devil Hacker & Unix Web". Attrition.org (One of, if not the original defacement mirror site) was defaced by Fluffy Bunny a couple of years ago. If you are going to be defaced, just hope it is by someone with a good sense of humor and creativity. digg.com /tech_news/Archive_of_Defaced_Websites_Defaced_by_Saudi_Arabian_Hackers   (1090 words)

Defacing A Website, The Easy Way! Do Not Miss This! this website is just a cyber gadget really, i tried this website a couple of times and a promotional version on another website for the band Tenacious D also came out in which the two band members would deface the website in similar ways with guns etc...but i got bored of both very quickly. Well in a way I guess it is defacing your website--with the suspend page if successful in using up all of your bandwidth. I tought it would actually deface a site and all who visited would be able to see it. www.trap17.com /forums/defacing-website-easy-way-not-miss-t45057.html   (944 words)

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