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Hackers compete to deface Web sites
News It means instead that they are rooting (taking over) targets, waiting to deface them during the contest time. To deface in a short time, defacers are using special mass-defacement tools that can deface in three minutes a Web-hosting server that...
[July 3, 2003, 7:35]
A Year Ago: Cyberprotesters deface Russian site
News Crackers deface Itar-Tass site, demand end to Chechnya offensive Crackers have defaced the Web site of Russian News agency Itar-Tass in protest of Russian military actions in Chechnya. The message "We're here to fight evil and our power is growing...
[December 13, 2000, 6:02]
Cyber-protesters deface Russian site
News Crackers have defaced the Web site of Russian News agency Itar-Tass in protest of Russian military actions in Chechnya. The message "We're here to fight evil and our power is growing" was plastered across the front page of the news service's Web...
[December 13, 1999, 17:02]
Vandals deface ex-hacker Mitnick's site
News Ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick is learning firsthand that online scofflaws are a fickle lot. Twice in the past two weeks, online vandals -- like the ones who tagged many Web sites with "Free Kevin! graffiti during Mitnick's time in prison -- broke into...
[February 11, 2003, 8:10]
Crackers deface Burger King Web site
News The UK Web site belonging to fast food franchise Burger King was hacked and defaced yesterday by crackers who apparently prefer the taste of food at arch rival McDonalds. The group claiming responsibility for the attack -- Dreamscape -- replaced...
[March 2, 2001, 11:00]
Hackers deface US Senate, challenge FBI
News A group calling itself MAST3RZ 0F D0WNL0ADING (M0D) vandalised the official U.S. Senate site late Thursday, replacing the front page with a blunt message to the FBI -- "FBI vs. M0D in '99, BR1NG IT 0N!
[May 28, 1999, 8:41]
'Code Red' worm claims 12,000 servers
News Almost 12,000 Web servers have been infected by a new Internet worm that takes advantage of a security flaw in Microsoft software to deface sites, security experts said on Wednesday. Code Red seems to deface only English-language servers, going...
[July 19, 2001, 9:56]
Worm exploits Solaris to attack IIS sites
News US-based Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) warned today of a new computer worm that exploits vulnerabilities in common Internet server software to help it automatically deface Web pages. This is not the first computer worm designed to...
[May 8, 2001, 13:35]
Does the media cause hacking? (part 2)
News They wouldn't even know we were in [their systems], if we didn't deface [them]. Only when they want to send a message do they deface a page, soupnazi said. Members of the Keebler Elves, a cybergang that hacked the National Oceanographic and...
[July 6, 1999, 8:47]
'Electronic jihad' played down
News There has been a lot of occasions of people saying, 'hey, let's have a party and deface a lot of Web sites,' and not much has come from it," said Jose Nazario, worm and denial-of-service attack researcher for security company Arbor Networks.
[August 26, 2004, 8:10]
Hacker trackers throw in the towel
News When online vandals deface a site, they typically tip off Attrition, which then confirms the defacement by going to the tagged page itself, copying the page and putting it in the archive. Archives, or "mirrors," on other sites will continue to...
[May 22, 2001, 10:12]
Script kiddies: The Net's cybergangs
News Last February, that boredom led Artech to deface three pages in the US department of transportation's Web site, where he labelled himself as "America's worst screw up". When I deface, I consider myself a script kiddie," he told ZDNet News during an...
[July 13, 2000, 8:52]
Hackers say they'll take off New Year's
News Several Weeks Back a Government Official Politely Asked Defacers Not To Deface Web Sites On 1/1/2000," said the Web page. While the Clinton Administration's request seemed aimed primarily at serious network intruders rather than those who deface...
[December 23, 1999, 10:16]
Stupidly Fun Drawing Program
Downloads Have you ever wanted to deface your icons? Sometimes those icons just look too professional. Here's your chance! SFDP lets you draw all over your screen-windows, desktop, everything! Draw flowers in windows, fish in the dock, or bugs on the...
[August 12, 2003, 8:00]
US blocks overseas ISPs from voting site
Talkback "The goal is to make it more difficult for hackers to deface and/or hijack the website," said Lieutenant Colonel Ellen Krenke. What a load of crap. It's pretty easy to allow access to the HTTP & HTTPS ports and still maintain a very secure website...
[September 22, 2004, 1:06]
Herbless the hacker supports petrol protest
News The ongoing petrol crisis sparked a politically minded cracker to deface more than one hundred corporate Web sites Thursday, posting messages in support of protesters against high fuel prices. The cracker -- Herbless -- who has targeted numerous UK...
[September 15, 2000, 10:11]
Pro-Napster hacker attacks five dozen sites
News Hacker "Pimpshiz" said Wednesday he has exploited a bug in Windows NT to deface five dozen Web sites in the past two weeks, including NASA and the French national library. The as-yet-unidentified hacker is not telling anyone what the undocumented...
[August 17, 2000, 9:04]
Vandals mutate Ramen Linux worm
News Online vandals may have modified the Ramen Linux worm discovered last week to automatically deface sites with their own Web pages, one expert said Monday. Several [vandal] groups are suddenly switching to Red Hat," said Matt Dickerson, also known...
[January 23, 2001, 9:18]
DefCon: hacking for human rights
News Human rights activists put out a call to hackers here to help get the word out about their cause -- not by having them deface sites, but by creating applications that can help the organisations manage data.
[July 17, 2001, 9:50]
Hackers attack Welsh local government Web sites
News The official Web sites of Carmarthenshire County Council, Pembrokeshire County Council and the town of Abergavenny were all compromised this week when hackers broke into the servers and attempted to deface the sites' homepages.
[July 27, 2001, 15:08]
