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Teens arrested over Greek ministry hack

Three teenagers have been arrested in connection with the defacement of the Greek Ministry of Justice website at the beginning of February... Read more

21 February, 2012

Sun readers' details hacked

...Monday, including with involvement in the News International hack and Sun website defacement. Davies was accused of being a prominent Lulzsec and Anonymous member called... Read more

2 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Teenager crowned UK cybersecurity champion

...printer — to steal data from the imaginary company, accompanied by a website defacement to try to mask the data-exfiltration, said Shipp. The second part... Read more

12 March, 2012

Man arrested over hacking of abortion provider site

...a complaint on Thursday. According to the Met, the arrest followed "a defacement and data compromise of a website run by the British Pregnancy Advisory... Read more

9 March, 2012

DNS hack hits multiple websites

...diversion. According to Zone-H, an online archive and monitor of website defacements, around 186 sites worldwide appear to have been affected. The diverted page... Read more

4 September, 2011

Google.com spoof triggers scramble to clean up

...systems after the breach, how on earth did they miss the Iranian defacement?"The hackers were probably looking for information on Gmail, Google Docs, and... Read more

31 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Hacker tries to blackmail RIM over riot data

...BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service to organise or incite action. On Tuesday, the defacement message appeared on the Inside BlackBerry blog site, signed by a hacker... Read more

9 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

US extradites suspected RBS WorldPay hacker

...Estonia was also on the receiving end of denial-of-service and defacement attacks, suspected to have been carried out by Russian infiltrators, which crippled... Read more

9 August, 2010 by Ben Woods
New York Dumb - Not-so-clever graffiti on New York advertising posters 1.0

New York Dumb - Not-so-clever graffiti on New York advertising posters 1.0

...than a hundred examples of rude, crude and not-so-clever poster defacements found in the underground world of the New York City subway system... Read more

13 May, 2012

Cracker offers site defacement service

...l33t h4x0r [elite hacker]?" asks the Web page vandal in a Christmas defacement. "Design a cool web defacement, using your own name or group, zip... Read more

2 January, 2001 by Will Knight

News Burst: Cracker offers defacement service

Web site defacement has come within the reach of everyday Internet users after a computer... Read more

2 January, 2001 by Will Knight

Cracker vows to continue defacement campaign

...motivated cracker Herbless intends to continue his campaign of UK Web page defacements, having successfully spread his message in recent weeks. The prolific cracker successfully... Read more

18 September, 2000 by Will Knight

Web defacements and server hacks on the rise

...report their activity, found that global Web server attacks and Web site defacements rose by over 400,000 (36 percent) compared to 2003 figures. "Defacement... Read more

25 April, 2005 by Dan Ilet

Political hackers on the increase in Britain

...the UK during 2001, despite a sharp fall in the number of defacements around 11 September. The UK government Web address .gov.uk experienced a... Read more

14 January, 2002 by Wendy McAuliffe

Hackers attack Welsh local government Web sites

...s message is not being disclosed, but the spokeswoman claims that the defacement was noticed within the hour. The homepage has now been restored to... Read more

27 July, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

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