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Web Defacements And Server Hacks On The Rise
News A study carried out by Zone-H, a Web site where hackers report their activity, found that global Web server attacks and Web site defacements rose by over 400,000 (36 percent) compared to 2003 figures.
[April 25, 2005, 17:10]
Cracker Vows To Continue Defacement Campaign
News Politically motivated cracker Herbless intends to continue his campaign of UK Web page defacements, having successfully spread his message in recent weeks. I treat my defacements as a form of non-violent yet public protest about things that I feel...
[September 18, 2000, 13:05]
Hacker Tracking Site Falls Prey To ThePike
News A well-known Web site that tracks defacements on other sites by hackers such as PoizonB0x was itself defaced yesterday by a hacker going under the name of ThePike. Alldas.de is one of a shrinking number of sites that track a growing number of...
[June 27, 2001, 12:04]
Hacking-competition Site Downed During Contest
News Unknown attackers downed the largest recorder of Web site defacements on Sunday, the same day that vandals had been thought to be planning an online-graffiti contest. A Web site called the Defacers' Challenge urged online vandals to crack into as...
[July 7, 2003, 7:34]
Defending Your Web Server
White Papers But there is another very reasonable way to view Web defacements, and that is as a measure of Web site security. And the rate of Solaris defacements has been declining, even as the NT rate has gone up.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
War Of The Worlds Web Site Hacked
News According to a report on Zone-H, a Web site that reports hacking defacements, the hacker broke into the Paramount Pictures-owned Web site on Sunday and replaced it with his own graphics. Hart added that poorly patched servers were often the cause...
[February 14, 2005, 14:10]
'Electronic Jihad' Played Down
News The reports came after the Russian news service RIA Novosti published comments made by Eugene Kaspersky, a noted antivirus researcher, saying that several Web sites had posted a call to arms for mass Web defacements to occur on 26 August.
[August 26, 2004, 8:10]
The New Age Of Hacktivism Dawns
News The groups supporting either side online have mainly limited their activities to defacements and denial-of-service attacks against Web sites affiliated with the Palestinian movement or Israeli nationalists.
[November 8, 2000, 14:45]
Scotland Suffers St Andrew's Day Hacks
News The defacements, courtesy of crackers calling themselves Evil Angelica all read, "Och aye admin ya Website's been took doon by that canny lass Evil Angelica! The Scottish Tourist Board admits that the defacements come at a time when national pride...
[December 1, 2000, 14:25]
Experts Question US Vs China 'cyberwar'
News This week, defacements by both sides have become more and more frequent and one Chinese group, known as the Honkers' Alliance, has even promised to target 1,000 US-based Web sites in the next couple of days, according to some reports.
[May 4, 2001, 16:32]
May Day Hacking Threat Fails To Materialise
News Perhaps more surprisingly, there has also been an absence of minor Web site defacements -- which usually rely on simple exploits and little technical expertise -- in support of the street demonstrations.
[May 1, 2001, 15:38]
Windows NT: A Hacker's Best Friend
News Of the defacements in December, 57.98 percent came on servers running Windows NT, while those using Windows 2000 were tallied at 9.96 percent. Sun Microsystems' Solaris saw about 4.1 percent of the defacements.
[January 12, 2001, 8:28]
Cracker Offers Site Defacement Service
News Although page defacements do not necessarily mean that valuable data has been compromised, they can do considerable damage to a company's reputation. Sommer agrees that page defacements are increasingly becoming a soapbox for those with a message...
[January 2, 2001, 15:10]
Security Sites Hit By Graffiti Gang
News In April, PoizonB0x gained notoriety for its mass graffiti attack of Chinese sites, racking up almost 300 defacements over two months. Mistakes definitely happen," said Marc Maiffret, chief hacking officer for security group eEye Digital Security...
[June 14, 2001, 9:01]
Herbless The Hacker Supports Petrol Protest
News The prolific Herbless now has an array of Web defacements under his belt using prominent Web sites to spread political opinions. The Web page graffiti artist typically uses a vulnerability in the configuration of SQL databases to carry out his...
[September 15, 2000, 10:11]
Government Sites Defaced In US, UK And Australia
News Andrew Cormaq, head of CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team), at the UK's educational network Janet says that the defacements are unlikely to indicate a serious breach at government level. Cormaq says that this round of defacements do not appear...
[January 22, 2001, 12:24]
Hacker Defaces 200 Government Web Sites
News The defacements were logged on www.zone-h.org. Many of the Web site defacements appear to have been removed, although recorded images of them can still be seen on Zone-H's Web site. A hacker defaced more than 200 Brazilian government Web sites this...
[October 26, 2004, 17:40]
Does The Media Cause Hacking? (part 2)
News The hacker theorises that the seeming increase in defacements is partially due to media coverage, which he thinks makes more kids want to learn to hack. Slashdot's Katz believes there is no danger in the defacements, and hardly any reason for media...
[July 6, 1999, 8:47]
Hackers Compete To Deface Web Sites
News Because the contest doesn't differentiate between defacements on the same server, so-called mass defacements will be far more likely, he said. Security Web site Zone-H.org, the largest archive of defaced sites on the Web, confirmed that the actual...
[July 3, 2003, 7:35]
Does The Media Cause Hacking?
News DeLong says there have been more than 1,300 incidences of Web-page defacements so far this year (he only began tracking the number of hacks late last year). Like Katz, he doesn't view page defacements as hacks.
[July 6, 1999, 8:33]
