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News Burst: Cracker offers defacement service
News Web site defacement has come within the reach of everyday Internet users after a computer cracker known for defacing UK Web sites launched a scheme allowing anyone to take part in Web graffiti. The cracker -- known as Evil Angelica -- last week...
[January 2, 2001, 9:50]
Cracker vows to continue defacement campaign
News Asked whether this would inspire more defacement over political issues, Herbless said: "Watch this space. Politically motivated cracker Herbless intends to continue his campaign of UK Web page defacements, having successfully spread his message in...
[September 18, 2000, 13:05]
Cracker offers site defacement service
News asks the Web page vandal in a Christmas defacement. Design a cool web defacement, using your own name or group, zip it up with all the images and send it to me. A cracker known for defacing UK Web sites has launched a scheme that lets anyone take...
[January 2, 2001, 15:10]
Airstrikes prompt defacement of Israeli websites
Blog While the Israeli Defence Forces are busy putting footage of their bombing of the Gaza strip on YouTube, militant hackers are attempting to deface Israeli websites. The website Arabic Mirror, which charts website defacements by hackers, shows a...
[January 2, 2009, 16:31]
Hacking editor claims innocence over Hospital Web defacement
News The editor of UK hacking publication 'Anti-Social' has contacted ZDNet UK News to dispute claims that he is responsible for defacing the Web site of Saint George's Hospital Medical School. The School's site was altered Monday to display a message...
[November 8, 1999, 13:31]
Hackers put porn on militant Muslim site
News The Web site of Muslim militant group, Hamas, has suffered a pornographic defacement after the fundamentalist organisation owned up to a suicide bombing that killed three Israelis. Hamas had been unable to remove the defacement from their site at...
[March 8, 2001, 9:49]
EarthLink flaw exposes domains
News A one-two punch of poor security left up to 81,000 domains hosted by Internet service provider EarthLink open to defacement and exploitation for at least a week, ZDNet News learned on Tuesday. Odds are, though, you can get to an open FTP server...
[October 18, 2000, 7:46]
Feds raid room, confiscate student's computers
News Law enforcement officials hunting for the vandal responsible for the 27 October defacement of the New York Yankees' Web site searched a computer science student's dorm room on Saturday and removed three computers.
[November 1, 2000, 9:43]
Hackers compete to deface Web sites
News A call for online vandals to take part in a Web site defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the holiday weekend. The numbers had some security companies warning clients to be on guard for defacement activity.
[July 3, 2003, 7:35]
Lycos army shoots itself in foot?
Talkback The "defacement" is not likely to have been a defacement - the nanog@nanog.org mailing list of the north american network operator group has a post stating that at least one backbone seems to have redirected any IP addresses it controls, that try...
[December 3, 2004, 10:10]
Government sites defaced in US, UK and Australia
News Government sites in the US, UK and Australia were reportedly hit by a single group of hackers Saturday in what has been described as the most systematic defacement of world-wide government servers on the Web.
[January 22, 2001, 12:24]
Hacker trackers throw in the towel
News On Monday, the nonprofit security site announced its decision to stop tracking the defacement of Web pages by online vandals because the volunteer staff can no longer keep up with the volume of defacements.
[May 22, 2001, 10:12]
Security pros develop flaw database
News The Internetworked Security Information Service (ISIS) brings together four independent projects -- the Open Source Vulnerability Database, the Alldas.de defacement-tracking service, the PacketStorm software database and the vulnerability watchdog...
[August 6, 2002, 8:04]
ISIS to provide 'open source' security information
News The Internetworked Security Information Service (ISIS) brings together four independent projects -- the Open Source Vulnerability Database, the Alldas.de defacement-tracking service, the PacketStorm software database and the vulnerability watchdog...
[August 5, 2002, 10:35]
Cybergang 'Gunmen' aim for media
News The defacement only affected the Web site, and only for minutes, before the Nasdaq's security quashed the unauthorised story. The stock exchange has already called in the FBI to investigate the Nasdaq defacement, said a knowledgeable source, who...
[September 17, 1999, 14:17]
McDonalds UK Web site hacked by fluffy bunny
News In the format of the original UK McDonalds page, the defacement advertises such products as "Bexter Nuggets", the "Bunny Burger" and states: "We want Boobiez". Security experts say that this sort of defacement can potentially do the most damage to...
[February 22, 2001, 11:29]
A Year Ago: Cybergang 'Gunmen' aim for media
News The Gunmen contacted Attrition.org to report its defacement of four media-related sites in the past four weeks, including television network ABC's main site, cable channel C-SPAN, tabloid Web reporter Matt Drudge's site, and Tuesday's hit on the...
[September 19, 2000, 7:00]
FBI to investigate Al-Jazeera Web hijack
News Those name servers in turn referred Web requests to the defacement site located at NetWorld. The actual defacement appeared on a free Web site service provided by NetWorld Connections. The defacement is the latest in a flurry of activity...
[March 28, 2003, 9:35]
Crackers deface Burger King Web site
News The defacement carried the less flattering message: "Eat our food, we want your money," and advised visitors to go to McDonalds instead. Kevin Black, vice president of computer security company E-Security, says that although this sort of defacement...
[March 2, 2001, 11:00]
Hackers attack Government Web site
News The defacement comes at a point of financial weakness for Europe's single currency, the Euro, and when the UK government is debating whether to join other European countries in the single currency. The group of computer crackers claiming...
[March 12, 2001, 15:07]
